Card Games

• Gblock

  What do you play?
  
  My family plays Euchre. It gets extremely loud and serious and sometimes can lead to fights that last for several days or weeks. We play pretty traditional, no partners best or what not. If you win a best of five you get the imaginary "belt" which requires you to snatch it off the persons waist which usually is quite comical as my brothers usually will try to tackle you if you try to touch them.
  
  Back in the day we used to play some spades. Hearts was outlawed many years ago due to hard feelings when you give someone the queen of spades.
  
  Recently at my GF house i have been introduced to two new games. Up and Down the river and Bid Euchre. I like up and down the river more, but need some more practice. I prefer regular Euchre over Bid Euchre but maybe after i get better at bidding i will enjoy it more. Anybody ever played these games?
• Scarlet_Buckeye

  

  African Gin = best family card game in the word.
  
  Euchre is another great staple. I'm always amazed at the number of people who do not know how to play this game (especially outside of Ohio).
  
  Texas Hold'em is a classic as well.
• gerb131

  

  Euchre or Spades mostly.
  Sometimes golf if we are betting.
• raiderbuck

  Usually Spades, but I'm not good at it. I used to play Tunk as a kid all the time.
• mcburg93

  

  spades hearts tonk euchre gin we used to play em all but now its more just plain old poker with some friends every once in awhile
• OneBuckeye

  

  Our family mainly plays 3 card games.
  
  Souse - Not sure how to spell it, but that is what our family calls it. Each person gets a deck of cards and makes a Souse pile with 10 cards, top one face up. You begin the game by flipping over your cards in threes (like in solitare) and then you build on cards are stacked in the middle by suit. Aces up to Kings. So you have an ace of spades you put it in the middle and then people can now build on it. You flip through your deck and play what you can while getting rid of your souse pile on the way. When the first person to get rid fo their souse pile is gone you yell souse the game stops and count up points. Each one left in your souse pile counts as -2 and each one you put out in the middle is +1. When you have 10 family members standing around the table trying to play the same cards off their souse pile it gets rowdy. There is no sitting in souse. There are many similar games to this, but can't remember the names.
  
  Progressive Gin Rummy - http://www.ehow.com/how_2088786_play-progressive-rummy.html We play a variation with limited takes (4 takes at 12 cards and 3 for everything else) and we play the set of 12 twice.
  
  Euchre - Classic
• 4cards

  

  ...I played a lot of cards in college. Our game of preference was Hearts but we played a lot of Spades, and gin.
  
  I remember my grandmother talking about a card game called "canasta" (sp.??). Has anyone ever played it, or know how it's played?
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Classic Euchre. Bid Euchre. Hand n' Foot. Poker (all sorts).
• CenterBHSFan

  

  Euchre is our family fave.
  
  4Cards, we play Canasta also. It uses two decks of cards and it's kinda complicated (for me) to describe it, but there's tutorials online. A few years ago I bought my stepfather the Hoyle Card game CD and that's how he learned to play. It's just a complicated form of Rummy.
  
  Here's an example of rules:
  
  Canasta Rules, how to play the card game Canasta
• karen lotz

  

  Not really with family, but we play euchre after bowling and golf leagues. Last Thursday we got done bowling at about 8 and then went to eat/play cards. Didn't get home until 12:30. We usually play 4 handed turn up but depending on who wants to, we'll play 3 handed cut throat, 6 handed bid and have even played a few games of 8 handed bid. Gets a little tough to keep track of whats been played in 8 handed. We usually start out at $5 a game and $3 for each euchre and then adjust the stakes depending on how much people owe. Also play all kinds of poker and pinochle.
• BigAppleBuckeye

  

  Oh man, I LOVE Euchre! Learned it at OSU, but ever since I moved back east, no one here knows what it is, or cares to learn.
• gorocks99

  

  Euchre, cribbage, and used to play a lot of pinochle in high school. I forget all the nuances of pinochle but I could probably pick it back up again if I knew three other people that knew the game.
• Steel Valley Football

  31 is the best game ever. Not 21, but 31. Anyone play?
• Rotinaj

  

  Steel Valley Football;741266 wrote:31 is the best game ever. Not 21, but 31. Anyone play?

  
  yea 31 is pretty fun..only playing for money that is..Also im pretty much a Euchre pro.
• OSH

  

  I only play Euchre.
  
  Unless you count card games like Uno, Skip-Bo, and those "board game" card games. Not really a huge fan of them, but I do like playing games.
• Fab4Runner

  

  We play a lot of Euchre at my house. I've played poker once and I had no idea what I was doing.
  
  Other than that we just play drinking games (Kings, Hockey, Ride the Bus, etc).
• Belly35

  

  Euchre and Pinochle almost weekly
  Spades and Hearts sometimes now but lot in the Army
  Gin and Cribbage not so much now mom, father-in-law and few uncle passed away that could real play the game
  Poke whenever someone want to lose money I'm in..
  War and Go Fish with the grand kids
• 4cards

  

  Fab4Runner;741317 wrote: I've played poker once and I had no idea what I was doing. .

  ...Wow, your probably a natural at poker. This year at the Fishers House outing we'll teach you a game you may have never played called STRIP POKER. I'm sure you'll do just fine.
• 4cards

  

  CenterBHSFan;741232 wrote:Euchre is our family fave.
  
  4Cards, we play Canasta also. It uses two decks of cards and it's kinda complicated (for me) to describe it, but there's tutorials online. A few years ago I bought my stepfather the Hoyle Card game CD and that's how he learned to play. It's just a complicated form of Rummy.
  
  Here's an example of rules:
  
  Canasta Rules, how to play the card game Canasta

  ...thanks bud, I'll check it out.
• vball10set

  Euchre pretty much exclusively--we're pretty boring
• Fab4Runner

  

  4cards;741336 wrote:...Wow, your probably a natural at poker. This year at the Fishers House outing we'll teach you a game you may have never played called STRIP POKER. I'm sure you'll do just fine.

  
  
  Doesn't look like I'll be able to make it this year I am in a wedding and we're going to Chicago for the bachelorette party.
• fan_from_texas

  I play Pitch more than anything else, but also a lot of Hearts, Spades, and Golf. Some cribbage, some euchre, some gin/rummy variations (progressive rummy, etc.). Also some Canasta. I'm up for whatever.
• 4cards

  

  Fab4Runner;741353 wrote:Doesn't look like I'll be able to make it this year I am in a wedding and we're going to Chicago for the bachelorette party.

  
  ...Rocky will not be happy when I tell him this on Saturday.
• bases_loaded

  

  Steel Valley Football;741266 wrote:31 is the best game ever. Not 21, but 31. Anyone play?

  
  32 is better than 31
• thePITman

  

  If you don't mind getting special decks of cards, I like the following games:
  Phase 10
  Saboteur
  Guillotine