Whot!

WHOT may refer to: * WHOT (AM), a radio station (1590 AM) licensed to serve Palm River-Clair Mel, Florida, United States * WHOT-FM, a radio station (101.1 FM) licensed to serve Youngstown, Ohio, United States * WHOT-TV, a television station (channel 17, virtual 66) licensed to serve Opelika, Alabama, United States * WUVG-DT, a television station (channel 18, virtual 34) licensed to serve Athens, Georgia, United States, which held the call sign WHOT-TV from 1999 to 2001 * WNIO, a radio station (1390 AM) licensed to serve Youngstown, Ohio, United States, which held the call sign WHOT from 1990 to 1994 * WGFT, a radio station (1330 AM) licensed to serve Campbell, Ohio, United States, which held the call sign WHOT from 1955 to 1990 * WDND (1490 AM), a radio station licensed to serve South Bend, Indiana, United States, which held the call sign WHOT from 1944 to 1955

Whot! is a fast-paced strategic card game played with a non-standard deck in five suits: circles, crosses, triangles, stars and squares. It is a shedding game similar to Crazy Eights, Uno or Mau-Mau and was one of the first commercial games based on this family. The game has been adapted into different formats, the most popular of which in Africa is the Nigerian Whot Game, which has been described as Nigeria's national card game. ==Origins== The game was invented by William Henry Storey a game designer and printer from Southend-on-Sea, England. Storey trademarked Whot in 1935, and it was originally published by the company W.H. Storey & Co. Ltd. of Croydon. The game was acquired by Waddingtons, a British card game manufacturer, and it was popular in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, and printed until the 1990s. The name of the game is given an exclamation mark ("Whot!") on later packs. The game is currently distributed by Winning Moves. ==Gameplay== ===Deck=== A standard Whot deck contains 54 cards from 5 suits: circles, squares, triangles, stars and crosses. These are numbered between 1 and 14 although not all numbers are included for each suit. The remaining 5 cards are special cards called "Whot" cards and designated with the number 20. ===General rules=== To start, a dealer shuffles the deck and deals six cards to each player. The top card from the deck is placed face up to serve as the "call card" (a base on which other cards are played), and what remains of the deck is placed face down between the players as the draw pile. In turn each player must either play a card onto the call card with the same symbol or number as the call card, play a "Whot" card, or draw the top card from the draw pile. Players do not have to play a card, but if they don't they must still take from draw pile. The special "Whot" card can be played onto any call card, and allows the player to choose which symbol is used for the next player's turn. The game continues until a player plays their last card, and they are the winner of the round. Play may be extended over multiple rounds by scoring. Once a player has played their last card all other players score points from counting up the value of the cards remaining in their hands. Players may then be eliminated from the game once passing a certain cumulative score, or the winner may be the player with the lowest cumulative score over multiple rounds. ==Variations== In later versions of the game, playing a "Whot" card also allows the player to choose to reverse the direction of play, or force the next player to miss a turn. Players might also be allowed to play multiple cards in a single turn when completing a "straight" (a run of cards of the same shape). The impact of star cards on scoring and gameplay can also be modified. Players double their entire score for each star card remaining in their hand at the end of play, but are also able to play star cards using either the number in the top left or the doubled number written in the star. Other cards might also be assigned special features. In one variant these special features include: In another variant these special features include: Some variants of the game include: ==References== ==External links== Rules of Card Games – Whot! Video – Nigerian version of how to play WHOT Video – English version of how to play WHOT Whot! Card game adventure "Whot" from The World of Playing Cards Whot: Nigeria's Premier Card Game from The Rule of Card Naija Whot League: The Tournament from IGN Africa Game rules – Whot from GameRules.com Whot! rules from the 1930's; Gamecatalog scan from Storey and Co. Maliyo Games introduces Whot King from BusinessDay Whot King from Maliyo Games Whot King Gets App Store Feature from Games Industry Africa Whot Guide – rules, examples and free practice demo

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