“Go Fish. It’s the only card game I haven’t forgotten how to play.”
“Uno. It’s one of those games you grow up playing where it’s OK to be a little mean.”
“Apples to Apples. It’s a game where a judge has the cards with topics on them, and you have cards with nouns. You have to play the card that best represents the judge’s topic, and they decide which player wins the round.”
“Either spades or bridge. They both take a lot of strategy, and you have to work as a team.”
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Comments
Bill Chapman 6 years ago
My family used get together and have dinner. Then we would usually play Uno - my favorite thing to do was to hold onto a wild card or a wild draw four card until the very end so no one could stop me from going out. I had a reputation as a bad person to sit next to when playing uno. Wouldn 't known why - Heh heh heh . . .
classclown 6 years ago
Cribbage.
trinity 6 years ago
speed! used to spend hours playing that one with my young'uns! :)
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 6 years ago
Pit.
enochville 6 years ago
I like Phase 10 for two or more people, Scum for 6 or more people (also goes by the name of President and another name I can't say here), and Spades for 4 people.
Ragingbear 6 years ago
First of all, that this guy in charge of keeping us safe from fire can't think of a game better than Go Fish scares me. But at least he has a job of worth. Secondly, why no references to Gin or 500 Rummy?
busymom 6 years ago
Condemning someone b/c of a card game? Seriously, get a life. And I have too many games that I love to play w/kiddo and w/parents to choose just one.
jonas 6 years ago
Presidents and A$$^oles.
Crossfire 6 years ago
5-card draw or 7-card stud. Any other uses of the 52 cards is blasphemy.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 6 years ago
52 pickup?
imagold 6 years ago
10 pt pitch
ksmoderate 6 years ago
Sheephead!
Chicago_JHawk 6 years ago
Blackjack
canyon_wren 6 years ago
Just about any card game that I can get people to play. I suppose Cribbage counts, since it uses cards, but is somewhat different--I love that. The rest that people mention are all fun. Haven't learned to play Eucre yet, but hope to do so before long--people say it's a great game. The many kinds of poker are all fun, too--Follow the Queen, Baseball, 31, etc.
concernedparent 6 years ago
s**t on your nieghbor....
samsnewplace 6 years ago
Phase 10, Uno, Mille Bornes, so many fun one's to pick from.....
Pywacket 6 years ago
Strip poker.
Pywacket 6 years ago
Um--- I mean--- what Samsnewplace said. Yeah.
acg 6 years ago
I like spite and malice when it's just my hubby and I. If its more than 4 people, poker, all the way.
mommaeffortx2 6 years ago
nothing I will lose money at and only if my 7 year old can play so just kid games but go fish drives me nuts she always wins.
nbnozzy 6 years ago
black lady hearts is fun. Cribbage is the best.
Azure_Attitude 6 years ago
Cribbage, spades, and bid whist.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 6 years ago
T_O_B,
One mans consumption will have that much effect?
sunflower_sue 6 years ago
5 pt pitch!!!
My family has always been "card playing people." Whenever we all get together there will be at least a couple hours of 5 pt pitch. I'm in for just about any game, though. When very young, we played "pig" (I think some call it "spoons." We never had enough spoons, though ('cause all our money went into cards), so we'd just put a finger on our nose, keep passin' the cards and see who was the last fool to notice that they were the only one still playing. Ah...good times!
A neighbor introduced us to the "Pirates of the Carribbean" dice game. We're kinda hooked on that now. Now all of our money goes into picking up extra dice. We'll get those spoons someday!
sunflower_sue 6 years ago
prospector, David Blaine creeps me out. But he's so darned good looking I can't turn away!
Kathy Getto 6 years ago
Old Maid with my granddaughter.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 6 years ago
snap,
Are you wearing your "I ¥ Huckabee" shirt today?
Just read an article about Mike...
ms_canada 6 years ago
I always like a good game of Blackjack and used to play Canasta, but nobody plays that anymore, it seems. As far as games go, I much prefer a good Scrabble match.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 6 years ago
Any one catch the broadcast of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s lecture "Crimes Against Nature" on KPR last night?
Though he had some good information, the presentation was very disjointed, and extremely inflammatory.
His spasmodic dysphonia made listening difficult, I wonder if that is related to his heroin overdose?
Pywacket 6 years ago
Ms C~ I love canasta--and Scrabble. I'd gladly play either with you if we didn't live a thousand-plus miles apart.
And I'm glad to see there are other Milles Bournes fans out there. My aunt gave us that game when I was a kid and we used to play it for hours.
A few years ago, I went looking for it and discovered that the company had changed the entire look of the cards. I bought a new deck to use for the moment, then got on eBay and found a nice deck of the original cards. Can't get that nostalgia thing going unless the graphics are right.
thetagger 6 years ago
Check out the youtube video for The World Series of Uno. Its awesome.
Ceallach 6 years ago
Doesn't anyone play pinochle anymore? I love that game.
Hi there, enochville!! Long time, no post. Good to see your name again :)
sgtwolverine 6 years ago
It's a tie between Valentine's Day and Mother's Day.
Oh, wait. Wrong sort of card game. Sorry.
I like Hearts. Poker is fun, too. And Canasta. But I have not yet been able to really get into Euchre. I mean, I learned how to play it, but it still doesn't really make sense to me.
sunflower_sue 6 years ago
sgt, a friend of yore had a dog he called Euchre. As the dog had a gastro problem, we lovingly called him "Pukin' Euchre." Never played the card game...me, not the dog...well, probably the little dog, too!
mom_of_three 6 years ago
A card game called "golf" - and texas hold'em
sourpuss 6 years ago
Bridge, no question.
SeaFox 6 years ago
Yea for Uno! And Apple to Apples is fun. Thank God no one said "Pokemon".
Gootsie 6 years ago
Pinocle, canasta, solitare. Yep - love those!
I'm guessing the vodka reference is because Yeltsin died?
nudist 6 years ago
Get-dressed Poker
jrlii 6 years ago
Gin. I played it with my grandmother and aunts when I was a kid.
I played Hearts a lot while waiting on the computer, back in the days of punched cards. . .
Never could figure out Bridge. I did play Whist a little, but as near as I can remember, it was almost the same as Hearts, except with spades instead of hearts.
I hate to say it, but I've never heard of about half of the games people have named. . . Does this mean I've turned into an old fart sometime I wasn't looking? Or does it mean THEY're the old. . .
buffalo_star 6 years ago
mexican train
Azure_Attitude 6 years ago
Ceal, I haven't played pinochle since I lived in Chicago. I hadn't run into anyone around here that knew how to play it. Now I don't think I can remember . . . maybe I can . . . The trump suit's Jack is tops, then the opposite suit of the same color Jack, then the Ace . . . now to find a place that sells a pinochle deck. I guess you could make a desk our of two regular decks, but does pinochle use the 9-A or is it 10-A? I don't play a game ifor 30+ years and I feel like I'm stricken with Alzheimers.
mom_of_three 6 years ago
Oh, yeah, and gin. My grandmother in law was a shark.
Played hearts from time to time.
Crossfire 6 years ago
If you have stock in Russian Vodka, now might be a good time to sell.
Goodbye Boris.
Moose and Squirrel are sad. :-(
Is Natasha available now?
crazyks 6 years ago
With a regular deck of 52 cards:
I guess Rummy is my favorite, though it seems that everybody plays it differently.
Spades, canasta, solitaire games, hearts, old maid, go fish (you can see the parent in me with all of those), slap jack (is that one considered physical abuse now?), poker (we play for buttons). Never learned to play gin, but I always wanted to.
With speciality decks, I like Uno, Phase 10, and an old one called Rage. Unfortunately, I lost my original deck of those, and I guess the only company that makes them anymore is in Germany.
Nowadays, I seem to be lacking in partners, so solitaire is usually it.
Pywacket 6 years ago
buffalo star~ We play a domino game called Mexican train--is there a card game by the same name?
jrlii~ don't worry. Everybody else is probably old. Starting with me!
Never got much out of euchre, though I play when that's what the rest decide on.
I remember Authors and Rook from when I was a kid. And Pit, which was something about the stock market..
Solitaire is good. I prefer real, broken-in, no-longer-slick cards to either new ones or the computer option, although it is cool when the cards do that freefall bounce thing when you win at computer solitaire.
enochville 6 years ago
Hey, Ceallach! I rarely ever check my email address that LJWorld sends messages to. I am doing great and I am still in Lawrence. My wife and son are doing well to.
Bill Chapman 6 years ago
I think i should post that I have played: nearly every form of poker.And also have played: uno, pitch, hearts, bridge, canasta, cribbage, a game my parents called Oh $hit!, gut (there's a nasty one for ya), quarters, . . . I can't remember any more, but I KNOW theres more.
nertzfan 6 years ago
Nertz is a great game. It takes speed, strategy, and skill and can be played with both small and large groups of people. Visit http://www.playnertz.com/ to learn more about it!
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