Rules for the Game Snookards
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A fun fast family card game based vaguely on snooker.

Requirements
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- 2 players, preferably wearing bow ties;
- An ordinary deck of playing cards, no jokers required;
- Room for a deck of unplayed cards and a discard pile;
- A notepad for keeping score;
- 5 or so minutes.

Objective
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To score the most points.

Setup
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Shuffle the deck, and place it face down.

Play
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Players alternate taking turns called "breaks", which is a sequence of "shots".
A shot is a draw of a card from the deck, placed face up on the discard pile.
Shots result in pots, which score the player points and permit the player to
continue his break, or ends of break, some of which are fouls that score the
opponent points. The game ends when the cards run out.

You start your break wanting to pot a red, and with subsequent successful pots
you alternate between wanting to pot a red and wanting to pot a colour. A red
is potted by drawing a red card, value irrelevant, and scores you one point.
A colour is potted by drawing a card with face value from 2 up to 7, suit
irrelevant, and scores you the face value of the card.

If a pot is not successful because you drew a black card with rank 8 to ace, then
the break ends with no penalty. If it is unsuccessful for any other reason, a
foul has been committed, and the opponent is awarded the score that a successful
pot using that card would have scored, with a minimum award of 4 points.
Explicitly, drawing a red card when you need a colour, or a black 2 to 4 when you
need a red, is a foul worth 4; drawing a black 5-7 when you need a red is a foul
worth 5-7. Also explicitly, a red 2-7 is never a foul, as it's both a red and a
colour.

Variants
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1) Both players have one card in hand, and when it's time to take a shot they can
   choose whether they play the card in hand or the unseen top card of the deck.
   If the former, they immediately replace it with the top card in the deck.

Drinking Perversions for Winkers
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1) Drink a fine on fouls.
2) Incorrect announcement of the nature of the shot just played, using apropos
   snooker terminology (e.g. "oops, I just fouled the brown") incurs a fine.
3) Inaccurate tallying of ones own break (the sum of the scores of the pots
   in that break) incurs a fine.

Invented by FatPhil 2021-05-09.
Rules of games are not copyrightable, but a mention of me as the source would
be appreciated.