The goal is to be the player to receive the lowest number of points. To do this, the players should try to avoid picking up penalty cards.
6 Nimmt! is played using a special card deck that has a variable number of small cattle heads on it.
The cards are numbered 1 to 104, each giving 1, 2, 3, 5 or 7 points (i.e. cattle heads) to the person who picks it up.
Ten cards are dealt to each player.
Four uncovered cards are arranged on the table to form a vertical line.
At each turn, each player selects a card to play, and puts the card face down on the table. When all the players have selected a card, the cards are uncovered.
Starting with the lowest valued card, and continuing in increasing order, each player must put their card at the end of one of the four rows on the table, following these rules:
The cards of all the players are played following these rules, from the lowest player card to the highest one.
At the end of the turn, the players each select a new card to play; this is repeated for 10 turns until all the cards in the hand are played.
After the 10 turns, each player counts the cattle heads on the cards gathered from the table during the round.
The score of each player is collected on the paper and a new hand starts.
The game ends when a player collects a total of 66 or more cattle heads.
The winner is the player who has collected the fewest cattle heads.