Stock Depleted

It can occasionally happen that the stock pile runs out of cards. If a player wishes to draw a card when there are no cards left in the stock pile, then you take all the cards of the discard pile except the top one, shuffle them together, and place them face down to make a new stock pile. The top card of the old discard pile remains face up to start the new discard pile. Play then continues as before.

In some games or game variants the game will end when the stock pile runs out of cards. Usually in those cases the points for the cards remaining in each players hand will be totaled and play moves into the end game status.