It's always best to agree on the rules of a game before you play it.
I once tried to remember the rules of Shithead from memory and it was only once we were playing that we realised I must have forgotten a rule or two.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 19:46, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

I can never remember how to play Shithead. Ever.
The rules seem to change by region...
( Maladicta, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 19:50, Reply)

Don't tell me they have regional variants too!
It's been so long since I played it that I've almost completely forgotten about it.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 19:57, Reply)

Well, Leicester Shithead, where I grew up, is different to southern Shithead
that I played at uni, something about how you shuffle...
( Maladicta, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 20:00, Reply)

My Shithead was polished Oop North
So it should really be called Shitehead.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 20:07, Reply)

They do, as does the name
(Fuck it, Burnout, etc)
Generally though, so long as you have the 3 face up/3 face down, a transparent card, a reset card, and a burning card things work well.
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Mon 3 Aug 2009, 20:00, Reply)