Favorite card game

[MissMillie]

Poll question: Favorite card game

[skygazer]

1. Cribbage

Best card game ever. Luck, skill and strategy combined. Great game.

[MissMillie]

2. How did I miss cribbage?????

I'm so ashamed!

[KitchenWitch]

I love cribbage

[giant_robot]

11. Another cribbage player here

Poker's great, but you've got to plan a poker night. I can go to a pub on a whim with my pegboard and find a game of cribbage.

[ralps]

16. Another Cribbage player here.

:hi: :hug:

[Wwagsthedog]

20. Cribbage lover here. nt

[kick-ass-bob]

27. How the freak do you play?

I read the directions that came with our game - and couldn't figure out what the hell it was talking about.

Any good sites on how to play?

[Left Is Write]

38. Yes, I love cribbage too.

My husband and I play a lot of cribbage and gin.

[redqueen]

40. Cribbage for me, too.

It's been too long since I've played.

[Sympleesmshn]

48. My grandfather taught me to play years ago

I have played since I was around 6 or 7. At 17 am really good at it now, but it took several years and help from dad and grandpa to learn to play the game well. I can give almost anyone a run for there money playing now, as long as my cards don't start getting bad...

[Lavender Brown]

3. Old Maid

:silly:

[Magrittes Pipe]

4. EUCHRE!!!!

:bounce:

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. HEY!!!! GMTA!!!!!

:bounce:

[MissMillie]

10. never heard of it

How is that played?

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. It's kind of like Pincochle, but if you trump your partner's ace, he's

liable to kill you. :hi:

[AllegroRondo]

13. Its similar to Spades, but fewer cards

uses only 9's and higher. And no jokers, the Jacks of the trump suit and same color as trump suit count as jokers.

[gollygee]

22. My vote goes here

I remember many university evenings lost to euchre.

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. Euchre!!!!!!! Who's with me Midwesterners????

:hi:

[grace0418]

25. Euchre ABSOLUTELY! I can't even count the number of games

of euchre I played in college. Hearts would be second in my book.

[ScreamingMeemie]

26. Hearts is my second too! And then spades.

Funny side note. For some reason second doesn't look like it's spelled right. :hi:

[grace0418]

32. Did you go to U of I?

When I lived in the dorms, my friends and I would fill up entire notebooks with game scoring. If you had to score euchre on paper, we would've filled up 3 times the amount we filled. Anyway, euchre was the perennial favorite, followed by hearts, then uno, then spades.

[bobthedrummer]

28. Yeah, Jacks are bowers-it's kind of like Sheepshead where Queens rule.

You'd like Sheepshead then.

[grace0418]

34. So in sheepshead queens act like the bowers in euchre?

I bet I would like it.

[bobthedrummer]

37. Yes, and the ranking goes Clubs, Spades, Hearts, Diamonds

Diamonds are trump in Sheepshead.

[noonwitch]

30. Me-I've loved euchre since college.

I haven't played it for a while, though.

[grace0418]

33. I'm such a dork, I play it on yahoo games

Although I only play the robots because regular people are too slow and half of them just want to chat. I come to message boards to chat, I go to yahoo games to play a game.

[ScreamingMeemie]

46. I do that on pogo. I play the robots as well. For the same reason.

:hi:

[Dave Reynolds]

53. ME!

I actually never learned until I moved to Colorado at age 19, bunch of Michigan folks needed a fourth and there I was. Nice to know there are many of us!

[no name no slogan]

7. 52 Pick-Up (nt)

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. Yes, but it loses something the first time you play it.

:P

[no name no slogan]

39. Well, then it becomes "51-Pickup"

...or "48-Pickup", depending on how messy your house is :dunce:

[Jessica]

8. Texas Hold'em

[mcscajun]

41. Fold 'em more than hold 'em - Love the game!

Low-limit, especially.

[jus_the_facts]

14. Blackjack....

....split 'em and double DOWN!!! :evilgrin:

[derby378]

51. Yeah - how did Blackjack get missed?

Lots of fun. Good way to piss away your hard-earned dough, too.

[pres2032]

15. no war?

that's a classic!


still voted for poker, though :-)

[Huckebein the Raven]

45. I forgot about that game. I loved that game too

I voted for Blackjack

[agates]

17. Love 'em all

But cribbage, canasta and popeye are the current favorites at my house.

[Ready4Change]

18. Chez Geek.

http://www.sjgames.com/chezgeek/

Games with regular playing cards become repetative too quickly for me.

[HamstersFromHell]

19. Spades

n/t

[northernsoul]

21. I play poker weekly, but I'm learning bridge

Bridge is probably the ultimate cerebral card game.

[bobthedrummer]

23. Sheepshead!

I'm from Wisconsin.

[Cocoa]

35. I second sheepshead!

fantastic game.

[bugslsu9]

42. Sheepshead

It's how I paid for just about everything in high school

[flvegan]

24. Strip poker. Does that count?

[Love Bug]

29. Contract Rummy

[Blue in a Red State]

31. Casino

[Left Is Write]

36. You included whist!

I *love* whist! The trouble is, we can't find anyone to play with here. My whole family likes whist, so we play when we get home to visit, but no one here seems familiar with it. If we could find two willing card players, we could teach them.

[ceile]

43. spades

[UdoKier]

44. UNO.

Old Maid.


What can I say, I haven't played much cards since elementary school!

[Deja Q]

55. DOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Another UNO fan here! :D

:hi:

[Sympleesmshn]

47. PA

President, Communism, @$$hole... There are a million names for it...

[yellowdogintexas]

49. I love canasta, learned to play it when I was a kid, however

another game my family loves is Shanghai Rummy. It is a game that can be played by an odd number of players, up to 7 w/three decks of cards.

Sometimes known as Liverpool Rummy and I believe it has other names as well.

[meow2u3]

50. 500 Rummy

Especially when the rules are modified so that the Queen of Spades is worth 40 points.

[Dave Reynolds]

52. Euchre.

Might be a Michigan thang, though.

[intrepid_wanderer]

54. Hand & Foot!

... I think that it is similar to canasta, but it has been too long since I last played Canasta to remember...


Hand & Foot... FUN! :bounce:

[AwakeAtLast]

56. God, I haven't played that in a long time!

I'll have to find a group to do that again.