Go-Stop

Go-Stop (Korean: 고스톱; RR: Goseutop), also called Godori (고도리, after the winning move in the game) is a Korean fishing card game played with a Hwatu (화투) deck.

When a "Go" is called, the game continues, and the number of points or amount of money is first increased, and then doubled, tripled, quadrupled and so on.

If a "Stop" is called, the game ends and the caller collects their winnings.

The game is played with great caution outside the family household, if ever played, as the gambling aspect brings the possibility of cheating, including hiding cards and introducing foreign cards to improve a hand.

Online Go-stop venues have been used in illegal gambling in South Korea .

The remaining cards are placed face down on top of the cut portion of the deck in the center of the table to form a draw pile.

Before the play begins, the players check for sets of two, three or four cards of the same month on the table.

But before calling "Go", the winner must consider whether another player may increase their score to at least three or seven points within the next turn.

Further, if a non-winning player has fewer than six junk cards and the winner has accumulated points by collecting junk cards, the non-winning player will have their penalty doubled.

[7] Some families play a variant of the game with slightly different rules, although the setup is identical.

If there is an extra or missing card, it means someone has cheated and the game ends in a draw.

Those players who have collected either all three red poetry ribbon cards or all three blue ribbon cards are given 30 points by all other players, meaning they each must deduct 30 points from their own total.