If you were raised in a card-playing family

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Anonymous wrote:4-8 year olds love Golf. We play it a lot and kids can play as soon as they know their numbers.

7+ we love rummy 500.

Dh and I can't wait to play spades when our kids are old enough (middle school?).

I was the youngest of 4 sisters and they needed a 4th person to play Spades and Rummy. I started playing when I was about 7yo.

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Big 2 (at home and at school)
Good morning Queen
Last card
PIGS
Rummy

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Euchre
Hearts
Pinochle

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SET

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Anonymous wrote:What was your family’s game? What other classic card games do you know and will you teach your children?

I grew up playing Spades, my husband’s family was Hearts. My older relatives all knew Bridge and claimed we would all learn one day but no one seemed to have the same motivation for that one and now they are all gone.

My kids play Spades and Hearts. We will probably teach them Euchre and Pinochle which we learned from friends who play them as their family’s game.

Are those the main 5?

Spoons after dinner! It’s almost violent

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We grew up playing pinochle, gin rummy, hearts and a few others. My grandparents were advid card players, and played Bridge with friends.

They'd set the card table up every morning we stayed with them and we'd play on and off all day. Taking breaks for us to go play or walk to the playground. I have some great memories of that time.

My kids like to play Texas Hold Em . I should teach them Hearts though, it's a classic.

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We played just about everything already mentioned. Two others are Help Your Neighbor with cards and dice and Fire.

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I play 65 with my friends twice a week, it's also sometimes called Pay Me. It's a rummy game, lots of fun, instructions easily available if you google it. Also table rummy.

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Anonymous wrote:My grandfather always played a game called Pitch at the community center in his tiny Kansas town. I remember watching so many games as a kid but I have no clue how to play pitch or whether anyone outside of that community even plays it. I should’ve asked my dad but he’s gone now.
My mom plays some cards but is more into mah jong now.

We loved to play Pitch in my family. When I went to college, we would play Euchre which is very similar.

We also played a lot of Rummy and Gin Rummy. And Michigan Rummy, though you need a board for that. I dont know if I would remember how to play any of those games now.

I think we had the same childhood We still have a Michigan Rummy board at my parents' house. I loved Pitch as a kid and played Euchre all the time in college. I don't think I could tell you how to play any of these games anymore.