You couldn't start a new suit until the seven for that suit was laid down. So, after the seven of diamonds was laid down the next cards required were the six of diamonds or the eight of diamonds and you would end up with rows of cards stretched out. This could often mean everyone picking up loads of cards until the seven of diamonds surfaced! You could only lay down a card in sequence if the card before it was already there. Players would take turns being able to lay down a card if they could, otherwise they had to pick one up from the remainder of the deck. This game is played with cards forming a sequence, going both up and down in suit from the sevens. Also known as Fan Tan, Domino, or Parliament, this game first became popular with Chinese immigrants to the US. Whoever had the seven of diamonds put that down to start the game. Sevens is an exciting card game that can be played by three to eight players. You had to deal out seven cards per player and everyone held their cards in a fan so as to see them all easily. The object was still to be the first to get rid of all your cards though. It was quite a simple game because sis and me were only young when we played it with our We used to play a game called sevens but I don't remember anything about trumps.
