The game is a strategic card game. With the help of various tactics and special rules, you have to try to reduce the total number of points of your hand cards faster than the other players, in order to find out in the last turn whether you have fewer points than the others. From round to round, points are accumulated until a set limit is reached, deciding victory or defeat.
At the beginning, all players receive 7 cards, the rest are placed on the draw pile and one card is placed face up on the discard pile. The object of the game is to reduce the value of the cards in your hand to less than 7 points by clever discarding. Once this is achieved, that player can shout GLÜCKSGRIFF and the round is completed. The player who now has the fewest points wins.