From a hand dealt from a standard deck of cards, each player "buries" three cards by placing them face-down on the table. Then players create and add cards to four tableaus, by suit. Face cards allow players to take, or, in some cases, to lock-up, cards from the tableaus. The pips in each tableau count towards the players' score, multiplied by the number of cards of that suit the player originally buried. Buried Treasure was published in the book Card Games Around the World.