Canadian Salad

Canadian Salad

Designer: Randy Green
Type: Card
Status: Free
BGG entry: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/11631
Available from: http://www.pagat.com/invented/canadian_salad.html

From the BGG entry:

'This is card game in the Barbu family. It uses one or more regular decks (depending on the number of players) and has 12 sub-games, all of them negative (Red, Even, Tricks, Hearts, Face Cards, Sevens, Aces, Queens, One-Eyed Face Cards, King of Spades, Last Trick and All of the Above). There are suggested sub-game subsets for different play lengths. If there is more than one negative hand that can be given out in a round then collecting all of the negative cards scores the other players 100 penalty points.'

Basically, a trick taking game similar to Hearts where the players try not to get certain cards. Each round has different cards that you are trying to avoid (12 rounds in all.)

The rules for this game are also available from its BGG entry in PDF format.