Flinch is played with a deck of 150 cards numbered 1-15. Players are allowedto play cards in sequence (building up from 1 to 15) to piles formed in thecenter of the table. “1” cards must be played to start the piles, but othersmay be played or held at the player’s discretion. Cards may be played from anumber of sources: a player’s hand (five cards to start), a player’s “gamepile” (a stack of 10 cards of which only the top card is face up andplayable), or a player’s “reserve piles” (whenever a player passes orcompletes a turn, they must add a card from their hand to their reserve piles- up to five reserve piles may be formed). Hands are continually replenishedwith new sets of five cards during the game. The object is to play all 10cards from game pile to the center of the table.