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🃏How to play Aces & Deuces (Acey Deucey): golf game rules
Aces & Deuces (Acey Deucey to some) is the purest carrot-and-stick in golf: on every hole, the outright low score, the ace, collects from every other player, and the outright high score, the deuce, pays every other player. Win and you’re paid; blow up and you pay the table.
The rules
Play your own ball, gross or net. Each hole, find the ace (outright low) and the deuce (outright high).
- The ace collects the stake from every player.
- The deuce pays the stake to every player: yes, the deuce pays the ace twice over the two halves.
- A tie for low voids the ace half; a tie for high voids the deuce half. Ties are safe harbor.
The math that keeps it honest
Middle scores break even. They pay the ace, collect from the deuce. The game only hurts when you’re the worst on a hole, which is exactly the pressure that makes a four-footer for double bogey feel like it’s for the club championship.
How Swilkin runs it
Turn it on in Swilkin and every hole’s ace and deuce settle automatically, the receipt reads like the game sounds ("Hole 4, ace Jack · deuce Walt") and the running ledger keeps the table honest all day.