description Follow the Queen Overview
Follow the Queen is a seven-card stud variant used mainly in home games. When a queen is dealt face up, the next exposed card becomes wild, and a later exposed queen can cause the wild rank to change again; tables may differ on how consecutive queens and the final wild card are handled. Players still make the best five-card poker hand from seven cards, but the moving wild-card rule makes the value of visible cards change during the deal. It is intended for players who accept substantial variation in home-game rules.
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How do the wild cards work in Follow the Queen?
It is a seven-card stud game in which the next card dealt face up after any exposed queen becomes wild for all players. If another queen appears face up later, the wild rank changes again, so the final exposed queen determines which rank is wild.
What happens if the last face-up card dealt is a queen?
This is a classic house-rule dispute: most tables play that no new wild card is created because no card follows it, while some keep the previous wild rank in effect. It is worth agreeing on the rule before dealing.
Do face-down queens trigger the wild card in Follow the Queen?
No, only queens dealt face up trigger the effect. A queen dealt as a hole card has no influence on the wild rank, which is why a player holding buried queens may quietly benefit from other exposed queens changing hands.
What other wild-card stud home games are similar to Follow the Queen?
Baseball is the classic cousin, where threes and nines are wild and fours earn an extra card. Both belong to the family of seven-card stud variants that inject volatility through wild cards, making them staples of home games rather than casinos.
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