Friday, June 1, 2018

New tech and card games

There's a lot of talk out and about concerning the death of social interaction among today's youth because of all the electronic goo-gahs that are available. Just sitting around and shooting the breeze is a thing of the past (supposedly).  I've seen it happening in my own life, but thank goodness I've been able to keep it at bay for the most part.

One "death" I'm particularly sad over is that of the "card party."   For you young'uns out there, people used to get together in the evening and play card games.  There'd be snacks and lots of "chewing the fat" or chit-chatting to go along with the card games.  We'd get to know each other a little bit better and have fun while we did.

So, for the benefit of the younger generations, who seem to have a phone or tablet or something like it connected to their hand, here are some card games that I like to play:

1.  Canasta.  there are plenty of websites that have the rules on them, so I won't reiterate them here

2.  Crazy Rummy.

3.  Euchre.  I particularly like Cornish euchre (not sure if that's the actual name).  You use a joker and it's the top trump card, even over the right bower.  After the second round of biddng for trump, if still nobody names a trump suit, the hand is played as a "no trump" hand with the joker as the only trump card.

4.  Kings Reverse.


Any others that people like to play out there?

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Dutch Blitz
Go
War
UNO
Mille Bornes

Unknown said...

I haven't played DB in probably 15 years. And UNO is just "King's Reverse" on a dedicated deck :)