card games

[Eliza]

Since there is a topic on board games, why not card games?

My favorites in this order:
Pitch- especially call for your partner.
Rummy
Skipbo- I actually played this with my grandma this evening. She owned me.
Spoons
War

[tmw89]

I like Blackjack.

Fond memories of playing War as a child.

Would love to learn Baccarat and the various Hanafuda card games.

[Eliza]

I would like to get better at bridge. It's kind of hard.

[EcceQuamBonum]

Bridge is well worth the investment of time.  Too bad there are relatively few people with whom to play.

I very much enjoy cribbage, canasta, gin, euchre, pinochle, bézique, five-hundred, whist, and piquet.

(When I was a boy, I taught myself all kinds of card games.  Of course, I was an only child and none of my friends really knew how to play any of the card games I taught myself, and none of them was particularly interested in learning.  And no one from my generation really knows how to play cards or cares to learn.  Consequently, I never have card partners...)

[Heinrich]

Euchre

[Bonaventure]

I can always go for a game of Egyptian War. It's also known as Egyptian Ratzu.

[EcceQuamBonum]

I can always go for a game of Egyptian War. It's also known as Egyptian Ratzu.

We always called it Egyptian Ratscrew at scout camp.  This may simply have been a perverse corruption.   

We took the slapping component rather seriously, as I recall...

[Bonaventure]

I can always go for a game of Egyptian War. It's also known as Egyptian Ratzu.

We always called it Egyptian Ratscrew at scout camp.  This may simply have been a perverse corruption.   

We took the slapping component rather seriously, as I recall...

Yeah, some people call it that. What rules did you guys use?

For us, people could slap in, but if one wasn't in the game and they incorrectly slapped, they'd get a strike. Three strikes and their out of the game permanently. If you have cards, you have to burn, but we allowed strategic, intentional burning.

Did you guys have sandwiches?

[Lyubov]

DUTCH BLITZ!

Dutch Blitz is the funnest card game ever invented in the history of the world. Golf is alright, too, but Dutch Blitz is the best.

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War

I remember using our TI-89 calculators to play War during math class in high school.

[PatrickG]

Patience.

[EcceQuamBonum]

I can always go for a game of Egyptian War. It's also known as Egyptian Ratzu.

We always called it Egyptian Ratscrew at scout camp.  This may simply have been a perverse corruption.   

We took the slapping component rather seriously, as I recall...

Yeah, some people call it that. What rules did you guys use?

For us, people could slap in, but if one wasn't in the game and they incorrectly slapped, they'd get a strike. Three strikes and their out of the game permanently. If you have cards, you have to burn, but we allowed strategic, intentional burning.

Did you guys have sandwiches?

The rules we used were slapping on doubles and sandwiches.  Ace causes next player to forfeit four cards, kings three, etc.

What do you mean by "strategic, intentional burning"?  Sounds like fun. 

People who were without cards were allowed to slap in.  The rule we had for mis-slaps, though, was that the person whose card you mis-slapped got to punch you in the arm as hard as he could.  This made people much less likely to get slap-happy.   

[Roland Deschain]

Euchre

I didn't think anybody outside of my family played this game. None of my friends growing up ever heard of it. I grew up in Jersey but my father is from the midwest which may explain why we were the only Euchre players around.

[OCLittleFlower]

Uno!

Oh, and speed.

[EcceQuamBonum]

Euchre

I didn't think anybody outside of my family played this game. None of my friends growing up ever heard of it. I grew up in Jersey but my father is from the midwest which may explain why we were the only Euchre players around.

Yeah, I learned it on my own, but if you know anyone from Michigan, Indiana, or Ohio, it's srs bzns up there.

[Eliza]

Uno!

Oh, and speed.

Yes. Two games worthy of being called awesome.

Since you like speed, have you ever heard of spit? It's a lot like speed, except more intense because you're playing off of more cards at one time. It gets going so fast that it makes it incredibly easy to cheat.