Q&A for How to Play Jacks

One variant is pigs in a basket. Pick the jacks up with your ball hand and then bounce the ball and put the jacks in your other hand.

You make a little cave with your weak hand and then the jacks go in the "stable," rounds 1 through 10.

You scramble the jacks on the playing surface and when the opponent gets a foul, you go back to where you left off.

I believe your turn would be over, as you have to catch the ball first for it to count.

If you call "cart before the horse" prior to throwing the jacks out on the playing surface, you can pick up the 3 jacks first and then pick up the remaining 7 on the second go. Otherwise, you have to do 7 first and then the remaining three. Calling "cart before the horse" works on any level where you'll have a remainder.

You pick up both the jacks that form the piggyback and separate them, so they aren't touching any more.

As long as the foam ball bounces, then yes.

You just need to go in order with every player and reset the hand as you would with 10 or less players.

There are 10 jacks and 1 ball. The last round is picking up all 10 at once. There are sometimes house rules where "baby hands" are allowed, meaning you can throw the jacks in a small grouping so it's easier to pick up a large amount at once.

If you're right handed, you will throw the ball up with your right hand. While it's in the air, pick up the jack/s with your right hand. You can let it bounce once but you must catch the ball with the right hand before it bounces a second time.

Toss the ball up and pick up the jack with the ball hand. Catch ball, toss the ball up and bring the jack to your lips and catch the ball again. Then toss ball a third time and "throw the seed away" (place it in your other hand and then catch the ball). This my favorite, we played with 10 jacks and doing that with ten was a challenge!

If your in a team, once you or someone else has collected all of the 10 or more jacks in one hand, he/she has one.