I ran across this deck of playing cards that I picked up on a trip to Mexico years ago. Never did anything with them because they have no 8s or 9s. Four suits (wands/clubs, coins, swords and cups), 1-7, 10-12. What wild and wacky games can one play with such a deck?
You could play Euchre with appropriate substitutions.
Well, Otto, I’d like to help, but apparently my post got lost during the Discontent era. I bought the same deck in Morocco and received a bunch of “how to play” replies. I am too embarassed to admit how many games of solitaire I played before I realized that something was not quite right - cribbage, BTW, is right out.
Since those posts are long gone, I went to Wikipedia’s “playing card” section and found the following, which may be of assistance:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_card#Italian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_card#Spanish
Whatever you do, don’t play poker. Steven Wright did that, got a full house, and four people died.
Well, considering this new poker variation using a different deck is coming out, how about we play Hold’Em with it and call it Wisconsin Hold’Em?
The Spanish deck is the one I have, with matching illustrations and everything. I’m gonna have to figure out how to play some of these games.
figured Pagat would have something to say on this.