Card game and method of playing card game

A card game, comprising:

• a center card;
• and
• a plurality of playing cards, each of the plurality of playing cards having one of a predetermined number of indicia thereon;
• and
• a rule set that includes a plurality of rules, wherein a first rule of the rule set provides that the center card be disposed proximate to at least two players;
• a second rule of the rule set provides that the plurality of playing cards be dealt face-down to the at least two players in respective source card piles, each of the plurality of playing cards having one of a predetermined number of indicia thereon which are not viewable by the at least two players when the plurality of playing cards are disposed face-down;
• a third rule of the rule set provides that each of the at least two players place one of the playing cards from their respective source card pile face-up thereby creating a respective played card stack, one player after another;
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• a fourth rule of the rule set provides that if two top face-up playing cards in two played card stacks have identical indicia thereon, then having two players associated with the two played card stacks attempt to be a first player to touch the center card, the first player touching the center card retrieves all of the playing cards on one of the two played card stacks associated with the other player of the two players.