an idea for a pond variation :

each player starts with a (random?) deck of cards (the amount of cards is equal to the number of players minus 1) .. each round each player has to play a card . the player with the lowest card drops out .. the rest of the players continue with their remaining cards

this is somehow related to lowering the amount of points to start with in normal ponds

another variation could be to let each player start with a full deck of 52 cards (or with just 1 color, which is 13 cards) .. maybe 'jokers' (i dont know if thats the english term) could be added as well (4 in a deck of 52 cards?)

the remaining cards of the other players wont be shown (or maybe they will ?)