# What can I play with this funky deck?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 23, 2006, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-i-play-with-this-funky-deck/341196 "2006-01-23T02:46:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-i-play-with-this-funky-deck/341196/1 "2006-01-23T02:46:09Z")

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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?

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**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-i-play-with-this-funky-deck/341196/2 "2006-01-23T03:15:25Z")

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You could play Euchre with appropriate substitutions.

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**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-i-play-with-this-funky-deck/341196/3 "2006-01-23T03:24:35Z")

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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#Italian)  
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing\_card#Spanish](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_card#Spanish)

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**Author:** ![tripthicket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripthicket/32/297_2.png) [@tripthicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tripthicket)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-i-play-with-this-funky-deck/341196/4 "2006-01-23T04:34:35Z")

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Whatever you do, don’t play poker. Steven Wright did that, got a full house, and four people died.

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**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-i-play-with-this-funky-deck/341196/5 "2006-01-23T04:43:10Z")

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> [@Otto](#):
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> 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?

Well, considering [this new poker variation](http://www.cardplayer.com/poker_news/detail.php?p_id=782) using a different deck is coming out, how about we play Hold’Em with it and call it Wisconsin Hold’Em?

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**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-i-play-with-this-funky-deck/341196/6 "2006-01-23T23:30:11Z")

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> [@chique](#):
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> Since those posts are long gone, I went to Wikipedia’s “playing card” section and found the following, which may be of assistance:
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> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing\_card#Italian](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_card#Italian)  
> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing\_card#Spanish](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_card#Spanish)

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.

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**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-i-play-with-this-funky-deck/341196/7 "2006-01-24T13:57:36Z")

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figured Pagat would have something to say on this.

[http://www.pagat.com/national/mexico.html](http://www.pagat.com/national/mexico.html)