Anonymous
Post 04/25/2024 11:35     Subject: If you were raised in a card-playing family

Anonymous wrote:Pitch (which we called hi lo jack game)
Rummy, gin rummy, 300
Hearts
Spades
Cribbage
And bridge too—my grandma needed a 4th so I was always added.

In college it was pinochle, cribbage, hearts, and spoons for bigger groups


I also loved learning how many things are house rules—I always played nobs and muggins in cribbage but realized that muggins especially is kind of mean!
Anonymous
Post 04/25/2024 11:29     Subject: If you were raised in a card-playing family

Pitch (which we called hi lo jack game)
Rummy, gin rummy, 300
Hearts
Spades
Cribbage
And bridge too—my grandma needed a 4th so I was always added.

In college it was pinochle, cribbage, hearts, and spoons for bigger groups
Anonymous
Post 04/25/2024 11:14     Subject: If you were raised in a card-playing family

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?).
Anonymous
Post 04/25/2024 11:01     Subject: Re:If you were raised in a card-playing family

Yes to spades, hearts, euchre, cribbage, gin, etc..

But none of my other midwestern folks have mentioned Sheep's Head which is the best game of them all.
Anonymous
Post 04/25/2024 10:32     Subject: If you were raised in a card-playing family

im bay]\


Anonymous
Post 02/18/2023 21:11     Subject: If you were raised in a card-playing family

When I was a kid:
Euchre - has a cult following in the Midwest
War
Go fish
Gin/Rummy
Old maid
Spite and malice
Uno

My kids play
Phase 10
James Bond
Anonymous
Post 02/18/2023 21:00     Subject: Re:If you were raised in a card-playing family

Anonymous wrote:Pinochle


Me too!
Anonymous
Post 02/18/2023 20:59     Subject: If you were raised in a card-playing family

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Our family loved cards. When we got to be teenagers, we loved Oh Hell, Spades, Hearts, Euchre, 500, and a German card game called Skat.

When we were younger, our parents played Fantan, Casino, Steal the Old Man's Bundle with us.

We were also long promised Bridge and never taught it.


Wow, I’m my entire life, I’ve only met 2 other people outside of my family who knew Oh Hell. My mom learned in college in the 60s and taught her parents and siblings and it became the family game that has spread through generations


Our family loves oh hell as well.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2023 23:04     Subject: If you were raised in a card-playing family

Poker!
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2023 21:22     Subject: If you were raised in a card-playing family

Anonymous wrote:Our family loved cards. When we got to be teenagers, we loved Oh Hell, Spades, Hearts, Euchre, 500, and a German card game called Skat.

When we were younger, our parents played Fantan, Casino, Steal the Old Man's Bundle with us.

We were also long promised Bridge and never taught it.


Wow, I’m my entire life, I’ve only met 2 other people outside of my family who knew Oh Hell. My mom learned in college in the 60s and taught her parents and siblings and it became the family game that has spread through generations
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2023 20:05     Subject: If you were raised in a card-playing family

We mostly played Pitch, Hearts, and Poker.

We played Poker with my great grandmother and she taught us all kinds of variations and the dealer would decide which we would play each hand.

We have taught our kids to play all the games, but for poker we mostly play Texas Hold ‘em with them. We like to play Nerts too.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2023 17:27     Subject: If you were raised in a card-playing family

Spoons and Kings Corner

It's sad when your partner did not play cards and has no interest in them. I miss playing!
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2023 16:52     Subject: If you were raised in a card-playing family

Rummy, Oh Hell, Tripoley, Spoons, Solitaire
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2023 14:11     Subject: If you were raised in a card-playing family

Euchre, cribbage, hearts.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2023 13:49     Subject: If you were raised in a card-playing family

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Cribbage is my jam. Hearts is fun too.


Card game buddies! I also love an obscure gambling game my grandmother (and consequently all my cousins) played called 31. (Yes thirty-one, not blackjack.)


PP poster again — I also know soooooo many variants of solitaire. My mother has in her older years largely switched over to sudoku but she never travelled without a pack of cards when I was young.