What's your favorite card game?

[zebano]

So what's yours? My family only plays 500, gin and cribbage which are great, but I need a new game to try.

At work we play spades at lunch which is an excellent choice but I've found nil to be worth too much.

 

[rudeguy]

spades by far

 

[Barfo]

Magic

 

[zebano]

meh, why did I even throw magic in there it can't be played with a standard 52 card deck

 

[leftyman]

blackjack, so it looks like I dont get to vote.

 

[zebano]

Originally posted by: leftyman
blackjack, so it looks like I dont get to vote.

edited the poll

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Hold 'Em. I am curious why your list of favorite card games includes exactly zero types of poker, one of the most widely-played card games in the world...

-EDIT- OK, now it does.

 

[oznerol]

FLUXX

But if limited to standard 52-card decks.... probably Hold'em. Or solitaire. Or 500.

They all kind of blend together to a level of mediocrity, really.

 

[leftyman]

Originally posted by: zebano

Originally posted by: leftyman
blackjack, so it looks like I dont get to vote.

edited the poll

voted

 

[leftyman]

oh, and dont forget one of my childhood favorites...bloody knuckles

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: NSFW
spades by far

same here... played it with my parents growing up, stopped playing when i moved out. went to jail for a while and found it again, played every day inside. fun game.

 

[zebano]

Originally posted by: leftyman
oh, and dont forget one of my childhood favorites...bloody knuckles

that's a card game?

 

[crownjules]

Hold 'em followed by Pitch (not on the list).

 

[rudeguy]

Originally posted by: hanoverphist

Originally posted by: NSFW
spades by far

same here... played it with my parents growing up, stopped playing when i moved out. went to jail for a while and found it again, played every day inside. fun game.

The county trains some excellent spades players!

 

[habib89]

deuces. which i think is a chinese game. i've played it for half my life and i love it. it's a 4 player game, and you deal out all the cards and you try to make poker hands. object is to get rid of your cards the fastest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Two

 

[Atomic Playboy]

OK, so after I made my post, you add poker, so I vote for it... and then you change poker to draw and add hold 'em. For God's sake, have a poll designed before you post the damn thing to begin with if you want the results to be even remotely meaningful.

 

[leftyman]

Originally posted by: zebano

Originally posted by: leftyman
oh, and dont forget one of my childhood favorites...bloody knuckles

that's a card game?

the one I played was

here is a reasonable description based on how I remeember playing..

object was to get rid of all of your cards. Last person holding cards lost and got scraped or knocked on the knuckles as many times as he/she had cards left over. Everyone who played got to join in.

Everyone discarded a card, but it had to match the suit or the number-- if you couldn't discard you had to "eat" from the stock pile until the right card came up. This would result in someone having way too many cards sometimes, which would usually mean they were the ones going to get knocked.

 

[zebano]

Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
OK, so after I made my post, you add poker, so I vote for it... and then you change poker to draw and add hold 'em. For God's sake, have a poll designed before you post the damn thing to begin with if you want the results to be even remotely meaningful.

Sorry mate the point was to find new games to try. Strictly speaking I don't care about ccgs or gambling games so I didn't include them. It's also rather hard to include games I've never heard of but the late poker change... eh my bad.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Probably Hold 'em. I don't care for card games in general though.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: leftyman

Originally posted by: zebano

Originally posted by: leftyman
oh, and dont forget one of my childhood favorites...bloody knuckles

that's a card game?

the one I played was

here is a reasonable description based on how I remeember playing..

object was to get rid of all of your cards. Last person holding cards lost and got scraped or knocked on the knuckles as many times as he/she had cards left over. Everyone who played got to join in.

Everyone discarded a card, but it had to match the suit or the number-- if you couldn't discard you had to "eat" from the stock pile until the right card came up. This would result in someone having way too many cards sometimes, which would usually mean they were the ones going to get knocked.

we played it with combs (and knives, later on)... one person puts the comb on top of a fist held out in front of them. another guy in front of you had to crab the comb and hit you in the knuckles or he got hit on the knuckles for missing. if you could flinch them into dropping the comb it was a free hit. the knife version was much more serious tho, luckily we usually played with a fairly dull single blade knife. chances of flat blading were pretty high too.

 

[Linflas]

Hearts, Cassino, and Pinochle.

 

[sactoking]

Killer Bunnies and the Quest for the Magic Carrot

Game can get pretty damn cutthroat.

 

[clamum]

Probably Uno (best when drinking with friends) followed by Texas Hold 'Em.

 

[amish]

euchre, though it is hard to find anyone outside of indiana that plays.

 

[bignateyk]

Go fish?