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@jwilloughby I’ve lived in Indiana for the last (holy crap) 26 years, and have so far successfully avoided learning that game. Why end a perfect run now?
(Blame my New Jersey origins. Once upon a time I played a pretty mean hand of Canasta. Nowadays I don’t even remember how many cards you’re supposed to have.)
The fact that this wasn’t on the list is a telltale sign that there are no black people within range of the person/persons in charge of making the polls.
@regnowsin I vote for Spades, as well, but I’ve not been to prison…Yet. I grew up playing Cut-Throat Spades in the back of the Blue Bitch (Mom’s station wagon) while on trips with my brother and cousins. This was before seat belts and seats were required.
@PyxienTX The way way back? I remember fondly, riding back there in my grandfather’s early 80’s GM wagons. He special ordered them with the diesel engine so he could always “get to Philly and back on that much fuel”, even if he was running on fumes.
SCAT is a fun game.
you only get 3 cards each, you spend a turn trading a card in for another one from the deck (or the one the previous player threw away) trying to get identical suits adding up to 31.
picture cards are worth 10 each. if you think you’ve got the highest at the table you can knock to end the round after one more go and force the reveal.
Sometimes when we all get together (holidays and birthdays), my family plays a game called Pit. It’s basically a commodities exchange game, which makes it sound boring but it’s actually a room full of people all yelling at each other and then laughing about it. Tons o’ fun.
@SSteve It’s used to make linen and a nutritional supplement called flaxseed oil. I used to sell flaxseed oil when I worked at GNC, but I’m not sure I ever knew what it was for.
@DRBLAW Yes!!! I can’t get anyone to play with me either, so if anyone in the LA area wants to meet up for some hot cribbage action, I am down. (Uh, as long as you aren’t an axe murderer or anything. Well, I guess if you’re really good and promise to only maim me, I might consider it.)
@sohmageek I use to play a lot of type 2, but in more recent years I have pretty much strictly been an EDH player. I find the casual, less consistent, multiplayer games to be much more fun.
@Sabre99 type 2… player of old here. I’ve recently gotten into standard and some interesting modern builds. My recent favorite standard deck was a modified mono blue prison.
@droopus My family plays a game called Back Alley Bridge. It’s really fun but I think it also goes by another name. Spades sounds familiar. I’d love to find the rules so I can teach it to our next gens.
@droopus
My my very dignified Grandmother, who never went to prison to my knowledge, taught me Spades. She also played Whist and Bridge and Cribbage and some other ones. But those games didn’t stick with my generation.
I wonder how she would be react to the news that one of her great-grand-children (my nephew) quit coding in order to become a professional poker player. She might not approve.
@f00l@droopus Learned to play Spades in college & played quite a lot of it. Don’t think the dorm vets teaching it were ex-cons.
After graduation, never played except during semi-drunken ski trips.
Spite and Malice is a family favorite when we haven’t decided we hate each other enough lately. I also love to teach people Pasoy Dos because it’s easy but its strategy can be surprisingly deep.
I recently got The Oregon Trail Card Game. It was ok. It might be better with more people, but 4 seems like it should be good enough. We started winning our second time through. Just keep trying to cross rivers and avoid the calamity cards and you’ll probably make it. Very few of the rivers can kill you. I think it would probably just be more fun to find the Apple ][ emulator I was playing a few years ago. Probably still on an old hard drive somewhere.
I know I’m showing my king of the nerddom, but… StarRealms is one of my favorite games overall (and it’s a card game). It’s a space battle themed deck building game. Honestly, I’m mildly surprised that noone has yet said Magic:The Gathering.
@SteelMan774 Star Realms is not bad, but it is not even the best White Wizard Games game (that would be Epic). I am looking forward to their next game, Hero Realms, though. Also, if you haven’t yet, you should give Cthulhu Realms a try.
@Sabre99 I do have Cthulhu Realms, and like it, but felt like it was some added rules that over complicated the quick dueling game that was SR. Of course the space theme helped tie in the faction differences the best for me.
@brhfl The last 1000 Miles game I found was removed from the App Store by a cease-and-desist. Most likely the ones that stay around are using the older “Touring” rules which is likely public domain now. I think Hasbro is the one enforcing claim on the well known Mille Bournes rule set and card art, with Asmodee being the current licensee.
@Wormwood Yeah, it’s a shame. The official app hasn’t been updated in a while (unless something has changed recently), and I seem to remember it didn’t follow the rules perfectly either.
I will also joined the list of crybabies that are mad about Euchre not making the list. What started out as a card game played in 3 Midwestern states and the Canadian Province of Ontario is now gaining international acceptance among card players everywhere. We have a euchre night at a restaurant in my PDX neighbourhood. I think 10 people show up every week. Someone in Seattle might start a similar night next year.
Where is “all these, even the ones i don’t know yet (but someone will surely add links to the rules in the forum thread so i can learn them and be even happier) and the ones not listed here (but added in forum thread)” as an option.
I LOVE hours of card games with family/friend at people’s homes and with strangers at the casino blackjack tables. You get to talk about old times (“remember that one time”), meet new people at casinos, and get highly upset about the outcome of a bad hand no one will remember in 2 yrs but will remember to tease you about how upset you got “that one time.” Love playing cards.
Am i annoyingly happy enough about this yet, or do i need to blather more/add pictures?
/image unicorns and happiness
Card games hmm… it’s poker. But I don’t play on money. Now I’m playing online at http://www.kizi2games.net/ . Of course, I prefer to play it with my friends, but when I’m at work I practice my skills online.
@therealjrn I’ve been coasting mostly. That was 11 years ago. Since then I’ve had two kids, moved a couple times, finished post-graduate education and changed jobs a few times, and had a book published. But compared to the royal flush, this is all “falling action”
Since this thread has been resurrected and all, I’ll throw out Elevenses as a recommendation to the twenty other people who voted Love Letter. Another fun little microgame (12 card deck per person, I believe… similar rank/action mechanic as Love Letter, albeit incorporating placement requirements among other things).
Dominion. Milles Bourne. Favorite played with standard deck, Canasta. Haven’t played a standard deck card game with a living person in at least ten years.
My favorite is Texas Hold’em Poker. I prefer to play online 'cause it is much easier. There is no one watching and putting pressure on you to make the right move, you’ll find it easier to make the right decisions, and therefore will be able to stand to win far more money than if you were playing in real life.
Ideally it would be Joking Hazard, but…
@PlacidPenguin If you backed it on Kickstarter it should be coming to you real soon.
@JoetatoChip
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XNBM8XF
How about a game of Mau Mau?
@cengland0 here in the sticks we just call it Mow, and I haven’t played in forever!
@cengland0 rules please?
@Yoda_Daenerys http://hyperlogos.org/page/Game-Mau
@cengland0 Came here to say, “Mau” and win.
Euchre, obviously.
@jwilloughby INDUBITABLY!
@jwilloughby Damn straight.
knocks on table
@jwilloughby Yes.
@jwilloughby The BEST Trump.
@jwilloughby Stay home!
@jwilloughby Hells yes
@jwilloughby I’m torn between Euchre and Pinochle.
@parodymandotcom I always feel like I was born with too few hands whenever I play pinochle.
@jwilloughby I’ve lived in Indiana for the last (holy crap) 26 years, and have so far successfully avoided learning that game. Why end a perfect run now?
(Blame my New Jersey origins. Once upon a time I played a pretty mean hand of Canasta. Nowadays I don’t even remember how many cards you’re supposed to have.)
Spades
The fact that this wasn’t on the list is a telltale sign that there are no black people within range of the person/persons in charge of making the polls.
@phatmass, not so… Spades is super popular with the college kids as well. I think the game you really meant was Tunk. That’s a man’s game.
@phatmass Spades is a prison game. I played a LOT and am white as Taylor Swift.
@regnowsin love me some spades. bagging bidding nils blinds oh sooo much fun
@phatmass I learned spades from some Hispanic ex-cons. Spades defies racial designation.
@regnowsin I vote for Spades, as well, but I’ve not been to prison…Yet. I grew up playing Cut-Throat Spades in the back of the Blue Bitch (Mom’s station wagon) while on trips with my brother and cousins. This was before seat belts and seats were required.
@phatmass I was raised in the whitest county in Arkansas, and we played the hell out of spades.
@blndfayth One of the proudest moments in my life was when me and my partner pulled off a blind nil and a 10 for 2 in the same hand.
@regnowsin not sure why Spades was not mentioned. There is a very popular app for it SpadesPlus.
@PyxienTX The way way back? I remember fondly, riding back there in my grandfather’s early 80’s GM wagons. He special ordered them with the diesel engine so he could always “get to Philly and back on that much fuel”, even if he was running on fumes.
@salaosantiago that’s the one, except mom had an osmobile.
My favorite card game is Spades too. I prefer to play online on VIP Spades it’s a really nice and very sociable place.
@regnowsin Man, I spent more hours playing spades while in college than doing homework.
No Euchre?
@curtise You can tell they’re not from a euchre-rich region.
What about pinochle?
@sadalex This.
Kings Cups!!
SCAT is a fun game.
you only get 3 cards each, you spend a turn trading a card in for another one from the deck (or the one the previous player threw away) trying to get identical suits adding up to 31.
picture cards are worth 10 each. if you think you’ve got the highest at the table you can knock to end the round after one more go and force the reveal.
it goes quick. look up the rules!
/gifhy scat
@NAFderwin The way we play, everyone starts out with 15 cents and one honor. the lowest loses a nickel each hand. The one left with anything wins.
@pooflady same here. you just have to not be the lowest, three strikes and you’re out.
Sometimes when we all get together (holidays and birthdays), my family plays a game called Pit. It’s basically a commodities exchange game, which makes it sound boring but it’s actually a room full of people all yelling at each other and then laughing about it. Tons o’ fun.
@rprebel Man, now I’m going to have to find my parents set and introduce my kids to it. Thank you for reminding me.
@rprebel Loved Pit when I was a kid. I had no idea what most of the things on the cards even were. I still don’t know what flax is.
@SSteve It’s used to make linen and a nutritional supplement called flaxseed oil. I used to sell flaxseed oil when I worked at GNC, but I’m not sure I ever knew what it was for.
Cribbage … of course. How can that not even make the list! I am appalled!
@DRBLAW I love cribbage. Unfortunately, so few people around me play it, when I run into one I have to relearn the game every time . . .
@DRBLAW Yes!!! I can’t get anyone to play with me either, so if anyone in the LA area wants to meet up for some hot cribbage action, I am down. (Uh, as long as you aren’t an axe murderer or anything. Well, I guess if you’re really good and promise to only maim me, I might consider it.)
I used to play a lot of Scum in high school. Dethroning the king/president as scum was always a satisfying feeling.
52 card pickup.
@TheCO2
I still have not learned all of the rules for this game.
@PlacidPenguin
Yeah I can’t play it either. I give up right after I hold the deck.
@f00l @PlacidPenguin The rules are always changing, but it helps to have lots of alcohol in your system.
Pinochle, baby. Partners, multiple decks, too much alcohol…
You sure can tell this poll was put together by a Texan! No euchre or pinochle is blasphemy I say, blasphemy!
[edit] Oh yeah, cribbage too!
Canasta
@chr My card club plays this once a month.
@chr Used to play that one with the family, sitting around the table. extended family, even.
I selected Uno, but I was looking for Spoons… Maybe that’s not as popular of a game as I thought it was
@capguncowboy Our group doesn’t allow any of us to play spoons anymore - too many broken tables.
@capguncowboy came here to mention spoons too! That’s my fave.
Magic: The Gathering
@Sabre99 I was also going to say MtG, but ironically.
@AWK @Sabre99 Why didn’t that make it? What’s you favorite format?
@sohmageek I use to play a lot of type 2, but in more recent years I have pretty much strictly been an EDH player. I find the casual, less consistent, multiplayer games to be much more fun.
@Sabre99 type 2… player of old here. I’ve recently gotten into standard and some interesting modern builds. My recent favorite standard deck was a modified mono blue prison.
Pokémon TCG…
er, I mean, Big Two/President/Bullshit
Amateur card magic
Bourré.
Clearly, no one here has been to prison: Spades.
Clearly, no one here attended Choate: Whist.
I never claimed to be a role model.
@droopus My family plays a game called Back Alley Bridge. It’s really fun but I think it also goes by another name. Spades sounds familiar. I’d love to find the rules so I can teach it to our next gens.
@mehbee Here’s a good YouTube vid of it
And Cutthroat, which is 2 person spades:
Whist is actually more fun but a bit more complex. But I spent years playing as a teenager in boarding school
@droopus I learned to play spades with my grandfather
@droopus
My my very dignified Grandmother, who never went to prison to my knowledge, taught me Spades. She also played Whist and Bridge and Cribbage and some other ones. But those games didn’t stick with my generation.
I wonder how she would be react to the news that one of her great-grand-children (my nephew) quit coding in order to become a professional poker player. She might not approve.
@f00l @droopus Learned to play Spades in college & played quite a lot of it. Don’t think the dorm vets teaching it were ex-cons.
After graduation, never played except during semi-drunken ski trips.
Tarot
31
3 card monte.
Sheepshead
I doubt it with about 5 or 6 decks of cards and a dozen people.
Spite and Malice is a family favorite when we haven’t decided we hate each other enough lately. I also love to teach people Pasoy Dos because it’s easy but its strategy can be surprisingly deep.
@jakeline rules please
@jakeline another game I had forgotten.
@Yoda_Daenerys Spite and Malice is distributed under the name Skipbo, which pales in comparison to the original: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spite_and_Malice
Pusoy Dos is really similar to Big Two, and they’re both like if Hearts had a bastard love child with Poker: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pusoy_dos
@jakeline thanks, i’ll have to do some reading
I recently got The Oregon Trail Card Game. It was ok. It might be better with more people, but 4 seems like it should be good enough. We started winning our second time through. Just keep trying to cross rivers and avoid the calamity cards and you’ll probably make it. Very few of the rivers can kill you. I think it would probably just be more fun to find the Apple ][ emulator I was playing a few years ago. Probably still on an old hard drive somewhere.
I know I’m showing my king of the nerddom, but… StarRealms is one of my favorite games overall (and it’s a card game). It’s a space battle themed deck building game. Honestly, I’m mildly surprised that noone has yet said Magic:The Gathering.
@SteelMan774
Um…
@SteelMan774 Star Realms is not bad, but it is not even the best White Wizard Games game (that would be Epic). I am looking forward to their next game, Hero Realms, though. Also, if you haven’t yet, you should give Cthulhu Realms a try.
@Sabre99 I do have Cthulhu Realms, and like it, but felt like it was some added rules that over complicated the quick dueling game that was SR. Of course the space theme helped tie in the faction differences the best for me.
500 rummy. infinitely better than gin.
Kick in the doors, backstab your friends, steal all the loot. Plus a million other sneaky tricks to give yourself a bonus. Munchkin!
ERS - That’s Egyptian Rat Screw. Very fun. Very violent.
@greengalore yes, I was going to add that, but you beat me to it
@greengalore there are so many different names for that game. I wonder why that is.
Fluxx
@jcbeckman Yes!
Rook!
Also, as long as we’re including kids’ games, why not Slapjack?
What… over 8 hours in and not one vote for STRIP POKER
@chienfou Nothing like a game where some people will purposely lose.
@TheCO2 whereby the others all win, so it’s all good!
Are pogs considered cards?
Cheat (BS!) and 31 are two of my favorites for playing cards.
Monikers counts, right? There’s cards there. That’s my favorite.
/giphy monikers
We got this far down the list without anyone mentioning Dominion, shame on all of you
@harrison I came here to mention Dominion.
Anyone else grow up playing Pitch?
@regnowsin I did, but I preferred to play short stop
@regnowsin yes, and still do, both with friends and in a league!
@regnowsin A family favorite. I can still hear my Grandpa grumbling about “Kentucky Rules” whenever my Aunt & her family would come to visit.
Spite & Malice
Rook?
Cribbage
Flinch, occasionally.
From the list, I voted Love Letter. Interesting gameplay with a very limited deck.
I would add Mille Bornes to the list, always loved that game. Unfortunately, I have yet to find a mobile version that actually adheres to the rules.
And I’ll throw Guillotine out there as well. Simple mechanics, good fun, wacky art.
@brhfl The last 1000 Miles game I found was removed from the App Store by a cease-and-desist. Most likely the ones that stay around are using the older “Touring” rules which is likely public domain now. I think Hasbro is the one enforcing claim on the well known Mille Bournes rule set and card art, with Asmodee being the current licensee.
@Wormwood Yeah, it’s a shame. The official app hasn’t been updated in a while (unless something has changed recently), and I seem to remember it didn’t follow the rules perfectly either.
No sheepshead?
Wizard
And also Set.
My father taught me how to play Casino when I was a kid. Anyone ever heard of it?
@driver8 I also played Casino with my father when I was a kid.
"Building eights. Taking eights."
Good memories.
You forgot this:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01L1RY1XW
I will also joined the list of crybabies that are mad about Euchre not making the list. What started out as a card game played in 3 Midwestern states and the Canadian Province of Ontario is now gaining international acceptance among card players everywhere. We have a euchre night at a restaurant in my PDX neighbourhood. I think 10 people show up every week. Someone in Seattle might start a similar night next year.
Do people still play ‘I Declare War’ in college? I know it’s played on a global level for much bigger stakes but is the card game still being played?
Also, no one has selected Spot It. Me thinks the poll creator has a soft spot for a very unknown card game.
@elimanningface Spot It has four votes, that’s got to count for something, right?
Netrunner.
Hanabi
Phase 10
@afullbeard Which came first, Phase 10 or Krazy Bee? https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/68803/krazy-bee-rummy
Where is “all these, even the ones i don’t know yet (but someone will surely add links to the rules in the forum thread so i can learn them and be even happier) and the ones not listed here (but added in forum thread)” as an option.
I LOVE hours of card games with family/friend at people’s homes and with strangers at the casino blackjack tables. You get to talk about old times (“remember that one time”), meet new people at casinos, and get highly upset about the outcome of a bad hand no one will remember in 2 yrs but will remember to tease you about how upset you got “that one time.” Love playing cards.
Am i annoyingly happy enough about this yet, or do i need to blather more/add pictures?
/image unicorns and happiness
Okay seriously, how come nobody has brought up Exploding Kittens?
Already discussed in meh.com forums.
@PocketBrain yeah, I was going to say that!
Five Crowns
Does Hearthstone count? I play too much of that game.
Cards – Seahawks is usually a good one.
Spoons. Or House Rules Spoons, which uses forks instead.
Card games hmm… it’s poker. But I don’t play on money. Now I’m playing online at http://www.kizi2games.net/ . Of course, I prefer to play it with my friends, but when I’m at work I practice my skills online.
the greatest day of my life was when i got a royal flush to beat a guy with four kings in online hold em.
@kevlar51 So…how does it feel to have already peaked? What are you going to do with the rest of your life?
@therealjrn I’ve been coasting mostly. That was 11 years ago. Since then I’ve had two kids, moved a couple times, finished post-graduate education and changed jobs a few times, and had a book published. But compared to the royal flush, this is all “falling action”
We like Superfight
I’m way late to this party, but no love for the card game “Asshole”? Best drinking game.
@jsh139 agreed
Since this thread has been resurrected and all, I’ll throw out Elevenses as a recommendation to the twenty other people who voted Love Letter. Another fun little microgame (12 card deck per person, I believe… similar rank/action mechanic as Love Letter, albeit incorporating placement requirements among other things).
Yay- I love zombie threads!
/giphy zombie thread
@sammydog01 nice “threads”…
Dominion. Milles Bourne. Favorite played with standard deck, Canasta. Haven’t played a standard deck card game with a living person in at least ten years.
My favorite is Texas Hold’em Poker. I prefer to play online 'cause it is much easier. There is no one watching and putting pressure on you to make the right move, you’ll find it easier to make the right decisions, and therefore will be able to stand to win far more money than if you were playing in real life.