Score President in finishing order
At the end of each round, you tap the players in the order they played their last card. Teamzy gives out the titles, adds 2 points for the president and 1 for the vice-president, and ends the match as soon as someone reaches 10.
President in 30 seconds
President, also known as Scum or Asshole, is a card game where everyone races to get rid of their cards. Usually, the whole 52-card deck is dealt. The first player leads a single card, a pair, three or four of a kind; the next ones play the same number of higher cards, or pass. The 2 is the highest card, the 3 the lowest. The first to empty their hand becomes president, the last one beggar, and these titles decide which cards are swapped in the next round. To find a winner, you score points: in Teamzy, 2 for the president, 1 for the vice-president, and the first to 10 wins.
How many points each place scores
In President, each round scores points by finishing order: 2 for the president, 1 for the vice-president, nothing for the others, and the match ends as soon as a player reaches 10. Nobody loses points. It's the simplest scoring, the example given by Pagat, the reference for card game rules, and it's exactly what Teamzy counts. Each table can pick another one: the most common are below.
Points of each round
| What counts | Points |
|---|---|
| President (first out) | 2 |
| Vice-president (second out, from 4 players) | 1 |
| The others | 0 |
Titles by number of players
The first out is president, the last one beggar, and those in between are neutral. From 4 players, the second becomes vice-president and the second to last vice-beggar. These are the titles Teamzy shows in each round.
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The example's score sheet
The nine rounds of the match told below, with five players: each round's president scores 2 points (in orange), the vice-president 1 (in green). Lucas and Emma both end on 10.
| Round | Lucas | Emma | Hugo | Léa | Nathan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 10 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
Other scoring systems you'll come across
From one table to the next, people sometimes score more generously: a point per place, or minus points for the last ones out. Here are three systems found in the rules, shown for 5 players.
| System | From first to last out |
|---|---|
| Teamzy's (Pagat's example) | 2, 1, 0, 0, 0 |
| A point per place (French Wikipedia) | 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 |
| Minus points for the beggars (Pagat) | 2, 1, 0, −1, −2 |
With a point per place, the president scores the number of players minus one. With minus points, Pagat gives 3, 2, 1, 0, −1, −2, −3 with 7 players. To play another system in Teamzy, pick “You type the points” under “Scoring a round” in the game's settings: you then type each round's points, and the ± button makes them negative. The 10-point target is changed in the same place (Pagat mentions 11 as an example).
The score sheet to print
A President score sheet in US Letter for 7 players and 17 rounds: in each box, the finishing place in the circle and the new total next to it. Teamzy's scoring is recalled at the top. Print it for your next match, or let Teamzy keep score.
Download the President score sheet (PDF)The last round, place by place
Lucas, Emma, Hugo, Léa and Nathan play to 10 points, with Teamzy's scoring. After eight rounds, Emma leads with 9 points, ahead of Lucas (8), Hugo (4), Léa (2) and Nathan (1). It all comes down to the ninth.
- 1First, the swaps: Nathan, beggar of round 8, gives his two best cards to Emma, the president, who gives him back two of her choice. Léa, vice-beggar, gives her best card to Lucas, the vice-president, who gives her back one.
- 2Lucas plays his last card first: president, +2, he goes from 8 to 10.
- 3Emma goes out right after him: vice-president, +1, she goes from 9 to 10.
- 4Hugo goes out third, neutral. Nathan goes out fourth, vice-beggar, and Léa is left alone with cards in hand: beggar. None of the three scores.
Lucas and Emma both end on 10. Lucas wins the match: when players are tied at the target, Teamzy gives the win to the one who went out first in the last round.
In Teamzy, you tap the players in the order they go out, and the last one is placed automatically: the titles, the points and the winner follow. During the match, the leaderboard shows the titles of the last round, so you know who gives their cards to whom.
The questions that always come up at the table
The simplest scoring, Teamzy's and the example Pagat gives: 2 points for the president, 1 for the vice-president, nothing for the others, and the first to 10 points wins (Pagat mentions 11 as an example). As there's no single scoring, agree on it with the others before the first round: some tables give a point per place, others take points off the beggars (see the systems above).
President rules on PagatIn finishing order: president, vice-president, neutrals, vice-beggar and beggar. Many tables call the beggar the scum or the asshole, which gives the game its other names. In Teamzy, with 3 players there's no vice-president or vice-beggar: president, neutral, beggar. With 4, there's no neutral.
Before each round except the first, the beggar gives their two best cards to the president, who gives back two of their choice. The vice-beggar gives their best card to the vice-president, who gives one back. Neutrals swap nothing. Some tables, like Pagat's basic game, swap a single card. Teamzy doesn't handle the cards, but its leaderboard shows the titles of the last round: you know who gives what to whom.
The 2, then the ace, king, queen, jack, 10 and so on down to the 3, the lowest. Suits don't matter. If you play with jokers, they usually rank above the 2s.
A common variant forbids it: whoever plays a 2 (or a joker) as their last card ends up beggar, whatever their finishing place. It's not a rule every table shares. In Teamzy, tap the other players first: that player is placed last automatically.
A common variant: playing four of a kind reverses the order of the cards, so the 3 becomes the highest and the 2 the lowest. Depending on the table, the reversal lasts until the end of the current trick or until the end of the round, and another four of a kind, the counter-revolution, switches it back. It doesn't change how points are scored.
Teamzy breaks the tie with the last round: tied at the target, the one who went out first wins, like Lucas ahead of Emma in the example. If one reaches 11 and the other 10, the higher total wins. If you stop the match before the target, a tie is still possible. The rules you'll find don't cover this case.
Yes. It's President in France and often in English too, Scum or Asshole at many English-speaking tables, Arschloch in Germany. It may come from Chinese card games such as Zheng Shangyou, perhaps by way of the Japanese Daifugō. Rules change from one country and one table to the next: agree on the swaps and the scoring before the first round.
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