# Old-Timey card games **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 9, 2009, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timey-card-games/516870 "2009-11-09T02:16:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Busy\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@Busy\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Busy_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timey-card-games/516870/41 "2010-01-18T09:45:39Z")
> [@maggy90](#): > > It’s the classic, classiest card game ever. It is true that the most numerous segment of bridge fans (the sociable ladies bridge clubs) are amongst the (perhaps) dying away-- like me, I’m almost 90. I play twice a week – but the game still lives. I Could play every day of the week if I chose, so popular is the game where I live in Florida. And my Friday AM club has four members who look young enough to be my daughters – probably in the 55-60 age group. Nice post **Maggy**. I play a lot of bridge and I’m in my mid-thirties, as is my partner, so some of us in the younger generations are playing. Our club membership is quite old, though, I must admit. The game has obviously declined hugely from it’s peak, but a lot have activities / games have - there’s just so much on offer for people to do these days. Bridge will always survive at the top level because it’s so challenging - it has that cachet of being an exceptionally difficult game to master. At the social level, though, I don’t meet too many people who casually play, and certainly not around my age group. A few people I know who went to private schools were taught Bridge as part of their education, but I don’t know if that is still done. I guess it helps that it adapts quite well to online play, so that’s another medium for it. I played against a 90 year old lady last week in our club - she bid 6 hearts and made plus one 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timey-card-games/516870/42 "2010-01-18T15:16:32Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > My son and I certainly call it “19”. I wonder if it’s ever carried over into non-Cribbage life. (“What’s 6 take away 6?” “19!”) > > More famous, though much rarer, than 19-point hand is 29-point hand. Have any of you ever seen one? I stacked the deck to give my son one once and he didn’t seem surprised by it. Several days later I told him I’d set it up – didn’t want him getting wrong intuitions about probabilities! My father said he once saw someone pull a 29 hand in college. I’ve never seen one myself, and I’ve never seen a 28 hand. I have seen 4 5’s come out in a hand at least twice in my life, one of those times was me (I was dealt four 5’s). However, the fifth card was never a ten/face. And 19 is commonly used to refer to 0. The reason being it is the first point total that is not possible. The others are 25, 26, and 27. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timey-card-games/516870/43 "2010-01-18T15:24:41Z")
I grew up playing cribbage, also northeast Ohio, and we call it 19 as well. ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2010, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timey-card-games/516870/44 "2010-01-19T00:59:21Z")
> [@Mr.Moto](#): > > Euchre is very popular in Pittsburgh - my whole family plays. We prefer this to poker sometimes. Games for kids include Michigan Rummy - this is one of the first games I learned to play. I’m from Wisconsin, my family and friends all loved Euchre. I had mad fun playing it with two cousins and my brother while at Grandma’s house on Christmas Eve. Though my SOB brother swept us “going alone” like three times in two games. F\*\*\*ing hax. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timey-card-games/516870.md?page=2)