# What card games do you enjoy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 31, 2006, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-card-games-do-you-enjoy/342286 "2006-01-31T01:07:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-card-games-do-you-enjoy/342286/1 "2006-01-31T01:07:42Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-card-games-do-you-enjoy/342286/2 "2006-01-31T01:27:08Z")
Canasta Hearts Spades Bid Whist ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-card-games-do-you-enjoy/342286/3 "2006-01-31T01:31:16Z")
Cribbage Bridge ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-card-games-do-you-enjoy/342286/4 "2006-01-31T02:33:44Z")
Popular at our house: 500 Rummy (or just “500”) A counting game called “99” Another game I’ve forgotten how to play – we called it “Spoon” and it was sorta like musical chairs only with cards and spoons. I’ve also forgotten how to play Casino, but I remember liking it. Dammit. We need to play more card games. The grandkids like board games better, but maybe we should introduce them to card games. ---
**Author:** ![MadPansy64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@MadPansy64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPansy64)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-card-games-do-you-enjoy/342286/5 "2006-01-31T02:35:34Z")
Cribbage. Preferably of the cutthroat variety Canasta Solitaire (assorted varieties.) With cards, not a computer. Omaha or Stud Poker My paternal grandparents taught me to play crib when I was five. I was stealing their missed points within a year, and they taught me canasta and a couple solitaire games in sheer desperation. Their eventual triumph was my utter and total inability to comprehend Pinochle. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-card-games-do-you-enjoy/342286/6 "2006-01-31T03:26:04Z")
Cribbage…my grandmother taught me when I was 5-6ish, you know, about the age I could add numbers up to 15. I love it. I’ve been playing over 30 years now. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-card-games-do-you-enjoy/342286/7 "2006-01-31T03:29:14Z")
Hold 'em Omaha Cribbage Gin Dummy Rummy Blackjack Hearts Spades Bridge (computer-only though) Probably a lot more that I can’t think of off the top of my head. Few of my friends play any sort of cards and those who do play poker. ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-card-games-do-you-enjoy/342286/8 "2006-01-31T03:44:42Z")
Hold 'Em Omaha H/L Cribbage Hearts Spades [Palace](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shithead_(card_game)) [Oh Hell](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_Hell) Used to play euchre, but I got really bored of it. ---
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-card-games-do-you-enjoy/342286/9 "2006-01-31T03:46:39Z")
I used to play euchre…but, strangely enough, that game is a midwest thing. Nobody plays it Nevada. My relatives in Ohio play it a lot, still. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-card-games-do-you-enjoy/342286/10 "2006-01-31T03:56:21Z")
> [@Gail](#): > > I used to play euchre…but, strangely enough, that game is a midwest thing. Nobody plays it Nevada. My relatives in Ohio play it a lot, still. I used to live in Ohio and everyone plays it there. I think you can still play it online at yahoo games. Hearts and bridge are also two of my favorites. I have spent hours playing them. I guess solitare also counts. How many hours have I spent playing solitare on Windows? ---
**Author:** ![Corii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Corii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corii)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-card-games-do-you-enjoy/342286/11 "2006-01-31T04:13:36Z")
I just learned to play Cribbage this weekend, it’s great! Some of my favorites are: Pinochle (but no one else I know can play it! :() Liverpool 13 Rummy 99 (like UNO with regular cards) Hearts ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-card-games-do-you-enjoy/342286/12 "2006-01-31T04:28:50Z")
> [@Idle Thoughts](#): > > 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. Funny, you’ve just listed all the card games I like best and play(ed) the most: Bridge, Hearts and Spades (and to some extent, Euchre, but mostly on my Palm device). For many years (since 10th grade until I had kids) I was an extremely avid card player. I have played Whist but it’s hard to play it once you’ve learned to play bridge, it feels like “bridge with training wheels” (which is unfair to a game with a much longer history and extensive literature, but that’s the way it feels). Other frequent favorites of mine (of the past mostly now, sadly) are Gin for two players, and Rummy 500 for 3+ players. Card games like War, Bullsh\*t and Pig/Spoons were fun too, back when I was 10 or younger (or feel/felt very, very silly) (like the time in high school where we decided to play try playing Forks instead of Spoons). Bridge, Hearts and Spades are all standard “trick taking” games, very easy to play (mechanically not strategically), and I much prefer them to combination type games like Poker or Gin; in turn I prefer “strategic” combination games like Gin or Rummy to Stud Poker, where you can see at least some of your opponents’ cards or discards, count cards in the deck and guess at opponents’ strategies as you both race for a common goal. I highly recommend looking into them if you’re a serious card player. ---
**Author:** ![RetroVertigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@RetroVertigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RetroVertigo)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-card-games-do-you-enjoy/342286/13 "2006-01-31T04:49:11Z")
My grandparents taught me **Rook** when I was around eleven. Its been the only card game I’ll play since then. ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-card-games-do-you-enjoy/342286/14 "2006-01-31T04:56:12Z")
Hearts (both with and without the Jack of Diamonds rule) Pitch Spades Gin (Rummy and Oklahoma) Poker (from 5-card draw to the silly Slide Trombone) Pinochle Canasta Cribbage Patience 8 of Clubs Then there is “Double Solitaire.” Each person plays Klondike with their own tableau and stock, but the foundation is communal. Object is to get rid of your cards the fastest or have the fewest cards left. We’ve played with 7 people, on the living room floor. It gets quite maniacal, with arms flying and the occasional head-knock. I’m learning Bridge, but the scoring has me buffaloed. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![MadPansy64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@MadPansy64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPansy64)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-card-games-do-you-enjoy/342286/15 "2006-01-31T06:19:41Z")
I should have a Doper Cribbage tournament! I’m a pretty good cook, so you’d all forgive me for kicking your hineys 😃 Can one play Cribbage online? ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-card-games-do-you-enjoy/342286/16 "2006-01-31T14:13:00Z")
Gin Rummy Crazy 8 Cheat (This one is the best fun, especially played with arb, mixed decks) A little poker ermm, 5-card, is it called? ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-card-games-do-you-enjoy/342286/17 "2006-01-31T14:22:11Z")
15 two, 15 four, a pair is six, and nobs is 7. 🙂 The hubby and I never travel without a deck of cards and a cribbage board. We usually split our time between cribbage and gin rummy. For larger groups, I really enjoy [Shanghai rummy](http://www.pagat.com/rummy/ctrummy.html) but that takes two decks, so I don’t know if it follows the OP’s rules, but it’s a damn fine game, and does sound a _little_ like the game you describe: > [@](#): > > 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? ---
**Author:** ![TommyTutone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-card-games-do-you-enjoy/342286/18 "2006-01-31T14:40:19Z")
Tichu is easily my favorite card game. It uses a slightly modified deck which is a standard deck plus four cards: the mah johng, dog, phoenix, and dragon. It is a partnership game that combines elements of bridge and poker, and to me is the ‘perfect card game’. [http://www.gamecabinet.com/rules/Tichu.html](http://www.gamecabinet.com/rules/Tichu.html) ---
**Author:** ![Lips\_Obsession](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bbce88/32.png) [@Lips\_Obsession](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lips_Obsession)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-card-games-do-you-enjoy/342286/19 "2006-01-31T15:03:21Z")
Standard card games I really like are: Canasta Hearts My favorite non-standard card game is: Mille Bornes ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-card-games-do-you-enjoy/342286/20 "2006-01-31T15:06:10Z")
My favourites are cribbage and euchre. I enjoy varieties of poker, although I’m really not very good at them and don’t want to take the time and money to get good. I play hearts as well, but I find that the game gets too nasty after a while. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-card-games-do-you-enjoy/342286.md?page=2)