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Long Pai (Dragon Cards) follows Draw Poker rules unless otherwise stated.

6 suits (Plum, Peach, Orange, Apple, Apricot, Banana) of 12 cards (72 cards).

Ranks:
1-8 spots, Ace can be high or low.
Face Cards: Tortoise, Unicorn, Phoenix, Dragon (The Ssu-ling "Heavenly Beasts" of Chinese myth)

In addition to the 72 regular rectangular cards there are 6 round cards called "Tall cards" one for each of the 6 suits.

The Dealer shuffles the regular cards and the player to the right of the Dealer shuffles the Tall cards.

The Tall card for that hand is revealed after everyone antes up. After the first round of betting, players can discard and draw up to 3 cards OR the face up Tall card can be claimed by a player instead of a discard/draw.

Claiming the Tall card allows the cards in one's hand, that are of the same suit as the Tall card, to become wild in rank. If the option goes around and the Tall is not claimed, the Dealer is forced to claim the Tall.

Another round of betting takes place and surviving players still in the game reveal their hands with the highest ranked hand taking the pot.

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One interesting thing to note is that "5 of a kind" is a possible hand in Long Pai, since there are more than 4 suits.

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Originally posted by chael:
With all due respect to the dearly departed... I have to wonder why anyone would need to re-create the game by patching together their own rules. Ms. Espensen said she created rules for it, and that the rules once were posted on the Fox website for fans who wanted to play. Is it *that* hard to track down the original rules for the game?

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Lux Lucre:
I recently got to talk with Adam Baldwin about the game, and he confirmed that no real rules had been created for it, it was just shown to indicate that gambling was going on.

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INT. SERENITY COMMON AREA / KITCHEN - NIGHT

SIMON, BOOK and Jayne play Chore poker. It looks like five card draw, only instead of chips, they're playing for pieces of paper. Each man has a collection of scraps in front of him -- Simon has the least and Book the most. Simon shuffles.

SIMON
Ante up, gentlemen.
(antes piece of paper)
Dishes.

BOOK
(anteing)
Dishes. Could do with less of them.

JAYNE
(anteing)
Garbage.

Simon completes the deal. The three men study their cards.

BOOK
I'll take two.

JAYNE
(re: his hand)
Speakin' of garbage.
(then)
Gimme three.

SIMON
And one for the dealer.

Simon gives out the cards.

BOOK
What do you s'pose the Captain and Kaylee are doing now?
(betting)
Septic flush.

JAYNE
Eatin' steaks off plates made a' solid money, like as anything. I fold.

SIMON
Me too.

JAYNE
Take it, Shepherd.

BOOK
Thank you, gents. That's a nice pile of things I don't have to do.

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SIMON
(dealing)
Ante up, gentlemen. Dishes.

BOOK
Dishes. Could do with less of them.

JAYNE
Garbage.

SIMON
(turns over a card)
Tall card... plum. Plums are tall.

BOOK
I'll take... two.

SIMON
Two. No tall card claim.

JAYNE
Speaking of garbage, I'll take three.

SIMON
Three. Dealer forced to claim the tall.

In the background, River is muttering over cans of food, getting increasingly more agitated.

BOOK
What do you supposed the Captain and Kaylee are doing now? Septic vat.

JAYNE
Eating steaks off of plates made of solid money, like as anything. I fold.

River is now ripping the labels from several cans of food.

SIMON
Me too. Tall card's around my neck like a weight. Take it Shepherd.

BOOK
That's a nice pile of things I don't have to do.

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In [Shindig], Book, Jayne, and Simon are playing a kind of poker-like card game where the stakes are various kinds of household duties, like "garbage", "dishes" and "septic vat".

Simon: Tall card ... plum. Plums are tall.

Book: I'll take ... two.

Simon: Two. No tall card claim.

Jayne takes three and

Simon: Three. Dealer forced to claim the tall.

A moment later he folds and

Simon: Tall card's around my neck like a weight.

So... what's this game they're playing?


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Long Pai (Dragon Cards) follows Draw Poker rules unless otherwise stated.

6 suits (Plum, Peach, Orange, Apple, Apricot, Banana) of 12 cards (72 cards).

Ranks:
1-8 spots, Ace can be high or low.
Face Cards: Tortoise, Unicorn, Phoenix, Dragon (The Ssu-ling "Heavenly Beasts" of Chinese myth)

In addition to the 72 regular rectangular cards there are 6 round cards called "Tall cards" one for each of the 6 suits.

The Dealer shuffles the regular cards and the player to the right of the Dealer shuffles the Tall cards.

The Tall card for that hand is revealed after everyone antes up. After the first round of betting, players can discard and draw up to 3 cards OR the face up Tall card can be claimed by a player instead of a discard/draw.

Claiming the Tall card allows the cards in one's hand, that are of the same suit as the Tall card, to become wild in rank. If the option goes around and the Tall is not claimed, the Dealer is forced to claim the Tall.

Another round of betting takes place and surviving players still in the game reveal their hands with the highest ranked hand taking the pot.

(One interesting thing to note is that "5 of a kind" is a possible hand in Long Pai, since there are more than 4 suits.)

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Originally posted by Agehn:
I don't know much about card games, but is there any negative aspect whatsoever to taking the tall card according to these rules? If you like the cards you have, you don't have to change their value, and if the first person takes it even if he doesn't need it, it prevents the other players from taking it to thier advantage.

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