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I got taught cribbage last night and its a brilliant game, even if as a beginner I got beaten soundly. So what are your favorite and least favorite card games. Got any new ones you can teach us. My new housemates are big cards players and even have a card table.

― Ed, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hey, that means you can do that really good knob joke.

I love poker, but obviously with my known abilities and propensity for lying no-one will ever play it with me for stakes higher than 5p, and this removes the whole blimming point. Not even my family will indulge me any more.

― Pete, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am semi-addicted to 'Microsoft Hearts', a version of the classic 'Black Queen' card game where Hearts and the Queen of Spades pick up penalty points, and the object of the game is not to win tricks.

And I like 'Texas Hold 'Em' Poker too.

― Andrew L, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Freecell' also wasted many hours for me back in the bad old days (i.e. before interweb) - much better than Hearts

― m jemmeson, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I only know and like the really embarrassing kiddie games. NO ONE RULES ME ON AT COUNT DOWN CRAZY EIGHTS

― anthony, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I had to pay a roommate's rent because of Cribbage. That was a nasty, evil game that ALWAYS bit me in the ass. That said, I wouldn't mind playing (as long as it wasn't for money).

My friends have a Setback fetish that's been in place since high school - we'd play Setback until 4 AM, listening to _Nevermind_ over and over, while our friend's slightly drunk mother would bring in stale snacks for the three/four of us. And then my mom would call in a panic, wondering where the hell I was. (Ah, yes.)

Poker's fun. Blackjack's OK. (Still wanna find a $5 table at the local casinos, damn it.) Freecell on the PC = CLASSIC. Much better than Solitaire (though not quite as enlivening as Minesweeper). My stepmom is obsessed with PC Hearts, though. She talked to me once about the other player's character traits. "What, are you playing with other people on the Internet?" "No." Um, yeah...

― David Raposa, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Strip Rummy can be fun.

― Emma, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In my family, we used to play this game called "Knuckles", where you beat the loser on the knuckles with the remaining cards in the deck. Of course, being sadists, punishment actually meant scraping and grinding each other's knuckles with the deck of cards.

We still play a fun game (with money) called Michigan Rummy, which no one outside of the Great Lakes has likely heard of.

― Kerry, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Has anyone else heard of Oh Hell? I always thought it was a family name for it but I found it in an old book of card games. It's halfway between whist and bridge, and you play with one fewer card each every hand. Fantastic game.

― Sam, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Look what I found.

― Sam, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

52 Pick-up, of course.

And seriously, I do Love Fortune Telling with a set of playing cards.

― suzy, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pokémon trading cards, obviously. The best place for them is SHEFFIELD I haf decided. All Lunding stockists are rubbidge and expensive and offend me. And I don't have anyone to play with so I just collect them.

Destroy: Digimon cards. Sing with me "I wanna be the uh...second best"... pfff har har.

Best conventional cardgames are of course SHITHEAD and VIOLENT SHITHEAD.

― Sarah, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like the card game where you use spoons or coins and everyone gets 3 cards and passes to the left at the same time. When you get three the same you take a spoon, and if you see someone else taking one then you can take one. Poor bastard left without spoon loses a life. When person is down to no lives, they name a card and draw cards until that one comes up. They are tortured based on what they draw until then. Ie Clubs you punch their hand the number of times the card says. Hearts you pinch their knuckles number of times. Spades you rub your knuckles across theirs rapidly number of times causing great pain. And Diamonds you smash deck of cards against them number of times. Blood is often drawn.

― Ronan, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah that's a great party game. We generally play a slightly less violent version (cos we're old and slow) where you just put your finger on your nose as soon as you've got your pair or three-of-a- kind. Last one to spot this and follow suit loses a life (not literally). Called 'Pig', I believe - it was once immortalised as such in a Peanuts cartoon by Snoopy.

Bridge is also great, but takes years to get even moderately good at.

My favourite, 'though, is Hearts - the 'real' Hearts I mean not that MS version. The whole point, Mr Gates, is that you can't pass on the Queen of Spades if you're dealt it!

― Jeff, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My friends taught me how to play Kabbadi (sp)...it was a cool game, but it's a long while since I played, I'll have to get them to show me again.

― jel, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Where are my spades players, yo? Cuz that's the card game of kings.

We also played Pig as a drinking game, but the best drinking card game is ASSHOLE.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

isnt kabaddi that sport that used to be on channel 4 a few (say 7) years back? like, some indian thing. kabddikabaddikabaddikabaddi....you had to say that without breathing or something whilst everyone else ran around like something out of *gladiators*

― ambrose, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Euchre, hearts, and poker. Though I haven't really played poker in years, or the others in a few. It seems all my entire floor did during my freshman year was play Euchre.

― Josh, Saturday, 29 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

52 Card Pick-Up is a potentially disasterous game because it relies on the other person agreeing to pick them up. If they say no, there's not much else you can do but pick them up yourself.

― jamesmichaelward, Saturday, 29 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one month passes...

i love no limit texas hold em me and my friends play every sunday

― winging wayne, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

DO you know the Devilfish? Or SIr Clive Sinclair.

― Pete, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If you have a card table and 4 people you can play, well, not exactly a ah CARD game, but a DOMINO game called TEXAS 42 which I say is the Best of All Games. Invented by crazy Methodists who reckoned that the face cards in a standard deck constituted graven images and therefore against their religion!! A good description is here. After a couple of hands you'll get a feel for it. Very fun, especially if you are a smart-ass, and quite satisfying to THWACK dominoes around rather than those flimsy (and Satanic) playing cards.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Poker, Cassino, Hearts, Pinochle, you name it. There's something about Poker using laundry money that just cannot be replicated.

― Brian MacDonald, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am addicted to free cell and spider patience. Its awful, but it gives me something to do when the phone line is otherwise engaged

― Menelaus Darcy, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

is anyone here familiar with Scum, aka Kings and Arseholes? that was a Murdering Monsters practise-room favourite.

i don't like Patience. maybe its cos i have none.

― di, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oooh I haven't played that in ages. I always sulk when I lose so it is best not to let me in on card games though

― Menelaus Darcy, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Am I the only person who *doesn't* particularly like cards? I don't usually despise the experience once I'm actually playing, but almost without exception, I need to be actively coerced. People I know seem oddly shocked by this. Is there something I'm just not getting?

― Kim, Saturday, 10 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Capitalism (or Asshole, as I've also heard it called) was the unofficial game of my high school's freshman class. If you were a freshman, nearly every minute of every bus ride was spent playing it. Sheepshead is a neat tricks game where you don't always know who your partner(s) are during the game, but it requires exactly five people.

― Vinnie, Sunday, 11 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Brian: Casino! I had totally forgotten about that game, but I remember it being a blast. Now I have to look up the rules again and find some people to play it with.

― Vinnie, Sunday, 11 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

*beginning to feel really freakish here*

― Kim, Sunday, 11 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I love card games! Canasta is my favourite. I also like Ricketty Kate (that's what you guys call Hearts) and Euchre. I only like poker if it's someone elses money.

We used to play a game called Beer or Wine or Port or something but I think Dad made it up so I doubt if anyone else plays it.

Does anyone here play Bridge? Is it any good?

― toraneko, Sunday, 11 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

*still feeling freakish*

― Kim, Sunday, 11 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kim, I don't think cards are anything to write home about, either.
signed
Your Partner in Freakdom

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Sunday, 11 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Toraneko: I used to play Bridge, but now I don't think it's much fun. Too much of the game is just bidding correctly, and I was never great at that. Also, it requires way too much time investment to become good at it.

― Vinnie, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Texas 42 = easy bridge wif dominoes.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yay Mitch! If there's ever a long distance ILE bus trip, you can definitely have the seat beside me.

― Kim, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kim, replace the word "cards" with "Star Wars", and you know exactly how I feel.

― Brian MacDonald, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kim, cards for me = family holidays as a kid. slightly dull, obligatory, and of no ****ing interest at all. go away. i see playing cards as much like smoking: a lot of people do it for social reasons, and cos it's expected of you. NO! playing cards will KILL you. stop NOW

― Alan at home, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Alan, yes exactly! I think that's precisely what puts me off.

Brian, ok I feel your pain. But really, not liking Star Wars? That's just weird. ;)

Actually I know plenty of people who haven't even seen it (by choice). Most of them are chix tho.

― Kim, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cards are a very introverted sport, me thinks. If you can manage to get a group of people to convene at one's house for several hours playing either poker, or Illuminati, or any sort of board game, it can be unmatchable fun... think of it as unsolicited free entertainment.

If you feel somewhat itchy doing anything for an extended period of time in the same room in the same house for several hours, then I can understand why playing cards can seem unattractive.

― Brian MacDonald, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If you feel somewhat itchy doing anything for an extended period of time in the same room in the same house for several hours, then I can understand why playing cards can seem unattractive.

Well considering that if I'm concentrating hard on something, sometimes I forget to eat, move around, or even look up for entire half days, so that probably isn't the problem at all.

Really, what Alan said is dead on. My resistance is pretty irrational because like I said, I can actually enjoy the games once I'm at it. I have played solitaire voluntarily so perhaps I just avoid the other games because they seem like a waste of my time - like I'm going to the effort and going through the motions of being social without *really* being sociable at all. Now look, I'm derailing the thread which is not cool. Please go back to talking about how classic Gin Rummy is and all that. :)

― Kim, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Now look, I'm derailing the thread which is not cool. Please go back to talking about how classic Gin Rummy is and all that. :)

Just when the thread was starting to show those bitter bearings of ILX identity, you have to go and give up on us. No! I want to see a turgent debate on the value (or lack thereof) of card games, dammit!

Or at least about "Sw inger Friendly" card games...

― Brian MacDonald, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Some interesting stuff in that link, but this has to be the creepiest and least sexy idea ever. The Pecker Toss sounds like a real hoot tho.

― Kim, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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