This is a 7-card best-5-card-poker-hand game with multiple betting rounds. This, however, doesn't truly begin to describe the experience.

If at any time a player folds, then that player is out for the entire hand. This is important because some events cause a round to restart, for which any folded player must either sit out.

Special Cards:

• Three and Nines are always wild, regardless of circumstances.
• Any card that is dealt face-up and that follows a queen is wild.
• If the Queen of Spades appears face up, the round is restarted, leaving all money in the current pot and with all active players putting in another ante. Players that have folded remain gone.
• If any other Queen appears face up, whatever rank appears is dealt face up next will be wild for all players. If a rank is already wild for following the queen, then it is replaced by this new wild rank.
• The rank of the lowest card "in your hole" (that is, face down) is a personal wild card. That is, it is wild for you but not for anyone else.
• If a Four is dealt face up, that player has the immediate one-time opportunity to buy an additional card. The cost is equal to the total original ante of all players. The purchased card is dealt face up, unless it is the last round for which the player may opt face up or face down.
• If a Four is dealt face down, that player has the option to flip it up when a bet call comes around to that player. The purchased card is dealt face down.

Hmm.... that seems like a lot of wild cards and the opportunity to buy more cards into the game should only exacerbate that. Right. This is the motivation for calling it the "mutford dommkopf" (actaully, there's a ruder name, but that's for a different website). Remember that each player is given at least 7 cards. At least one of these cards is wild, unless they are both flipped up Fours and the last card is dealt face up. The worst hand possible is a pair of flipped up Fours, a 2, 5, 6, 7, 10, J, and Q.

The average winning hand, however, is likely to be 5 Aces. How many Aces could be in play at any given moment? There are the 4 natural Aces. 4 more Threes as Aces. 4 more Nines as Aces. 4 more Whatever-followed-a-Queens as Aces. And per player, at least 1 more Low-Card-in-the-Holes as personal Aces. (Although, each player could have chosen to have their last cards dealt face down and each have 3-of-a-kind Low-Card-in-the-Holes, although this is not likely as most players will a matching pair of Low-Hole-Wilds don't want to risk receiving an even lower Low-Hole card.) So, assume 5 players, it would not be crazy to see something over 20 wild cards appear in total if all 5 players stay in and get to the bet decision.

Perhaps most important to this game is how to decide which player's hand outranks another player's similar hand. The order of precedence is as follows:

1. If a single hand is the only one of its poker stratum, then it wins. (For example: 5 of a Kind always beats Royal Flush.)
2. If a single hand has a higher rank than any others within its stratum, then it wins. (For example: 5 Aces always beats 5 Kings.)
3. The most natural hand wins. That is, if some number of hands are tied in rank thusfar, measure which one is most natural. (For example: a Royal Flush with 3 natural cards in the sequence always beats a Royal Flush with 2 natural cards in the sequence.
4. When the number of natural cards in the best hands are equal, the order of suits is Spades over Hearts over Diamonds over Clubs. It is reverse-alphabetical.
5. Sometimes even this isn't enough to decide. In this case, the highest ranked (and possibly suited) wild card breaks the tie. Huh? Well, imagine 3 players with 5 Aces (all built from wild cards). Then, amongst the 15 cards, look for the highest wild card amongst them. King of Spades (assuming Low-Card personal wild here) would defeat all.