Eliminating custom card games like Magic: The Gathering or The Last Vampire or even ones like Uno and Skipbo.
What card games, played with a standard deck of cards or various components thereof do you enjoy to play when you have free time?
Me, I love Cribbage. I learned it only about 3 years ago, but since have become a huge fan of it. It’s like I can’t get enough.
I’m also a fan of Rummy. I taught my little brother how to play, and he wanted to play at least every hour after that.
War is always fun for a quick game of doing something.
I’m not too keen on Poker or Blackjack. They can be fun, but don’t tend to be as interesting (well, at least to me, in my opinion) and fun as other card games.
Cheat/Bullshit is good. I enjoy that one too, but sadly, it’s not not really possible to play unless you have a good 5 or 6 people.
Asshole/President is good too. That I’ve had many an run round playing.
Does anyone here know how to play and enjoy Bridge? For the life of me, I’ve never actually known anyone who knew how to play. It seems like a very confusing game. Same with Hearts and Spades. I have no idea how to play them.
Other card games like Sheepshead, Canasta, Euchre, Pinochle, and Whist I’ve also heard of, but have no idea how to play.
I remember my grandma taught me a game called Grandma’s Game. Of course, I don’t really think it was called that…cause i’ve asked around and nobody else ever seems to have heard of it (although one thought he did and said "isn’t that like Patience? Me, I had no idea how to answer that since I’d never heard of THAT game).
Card games I know the rules to but dislike would have to be Slapjack and Speed.
And there’sn othing like a good game of Go Fish.
I’m sure, among all of these, there are still many many other card games out there. One I remember playing that I really enjoyed but can’t remember the name of. It involved getting a sequence of numbers for each round and you couldn’t move on to the next round until you got the sequence you were on. There were about 10 or so sequences in all and they got progressively harder to achieve and they involved things like 3 of a kind, or a 4 in numerical order…and later even had combos you had to get like 2 of a kind and 5 in order; things like that. Anyone know what card game I’m talking about?
Anyway, which of these mentioned (and any not yet mentioned) do you enjoy? Any that you’re exceptionally good at? Any you used to play hours and hours of?