Climbers is a cooperative trick-taking game. Both decks are shufflet together, then each player is dealt 3 * n cards for a game with up to 3 * n players (i.e. 3 cards up to 3 players, 6 cards up to 6 players, etc.). The player to the right of the dealer plays one card face up on the playing surface, then each player in counterclockwise order tries to play a card from the same deck, higher than the ones already in play: if they can't the hand is discarded, if all players manage to do so the hand is moved to the score pile. A variant allows intermediate players to play any card, and the hand is won if the last player can beat all of the cards on the table, lost otherwise. Starting from the player who played the higher value card and proceeding counterclockwise each player who had played a card picks up a new one from the deck, and the next hand is started by the same player who picked up first. When there are no more cards in the deck the game continues until nobody has any card in their hand. The game is usually considered won when the score pile has at least 10362 points (half of the possible total of 20724), but more or less skilled players may set different targets for themselves.