Favorite Card Game????

[LynneSin]

Me, I love Pinocle and Canasta!!!!

What about you?

[HEyHEY]

1. Besides poker - all shapes ... I'll go with King's Cross

[beawr]

2. Mille Bornes

Poker if you are talking regular card deck.

[SiobhanClancy]

3. Hearts and Spades...

Hard to pick between those two:)

on edit: also love Euchre,but it's hard to find anyone who plays it.

[SiobhanClancy]

4. dupe....ignore

I swear I only hit the button once!

[Catch22Dem]

5. poker - blackjack - spades

[DevGrrrl]

6. Cribbage

and poker

[grannylib]

28. Cribbage gets my vote.

[MissMillie]

33. cribbage wins for me

followed by Gin Rummy

[underpants]

7. I just learned Canasta over Christmas

I came second the first game and WON the second game we played (4 or us). My wife's family loves playing it and I have to say it is very interesting but I play it like the games I had played before, try to go out quick and leave them holding points. I may learn to play the more traditional way but I just get nervous holding that many cards.

[LynneSin]

8. We'll have to hook up on Yahoo Games

They have Canasta there. I'd love to start a DU group of card players!!!

[underpants]

19. My wife plays at canasta.net

and she crushes!!!!!!!

[Cocoa]

9. Sheepshead!

[crimson333]

10. rook, hearts and spades

in that order. I would like to play texas hold em poker as it looks fun

[arwalden]

17. Have You Been Watching The Celebrity Poker Tournament Too?

That really does look fun.

-- Allen

[Lefty48197]

11. 7 Card Hold 'em

cribbage too

[Bruce McAuley]

12. Pinochle: The favorite game of Republic.

We go and play pinochle every week in the back room of the local bar, where the smoke isn't so bad. There are a couple of generations who've played since they were young, since TV and radio were late getting here, and local get togethers always had pinochle players. We play single deck pinochle, with 3 to 5 tables every week, and rotating partners. Play is 6 full games, at 4 hands per game, and everyone keeps their own score, and lists their partner for each game. We all put $3 in the kitty to get in, and the top three players get money back, along with the final two pinochle holders(always a partnership). Since we do chocolates, we provide some candies for the low score.
It's a good way to interact with the movers and shakers of this county, as a present County Commissioner and a past County Commissioner play.
Lots of fun!
:hi:

Bruce

[nuxvomica]

13. Spite & Malice

I was taught this game by a nice elderly woman who played it with uncharacteristic ruthlessness. A very fun game that requires at least two decks that are visibly different when the cards are face down.

[LynneSin]

I had an elderly lady teach me that game too

I wish Yahoo Games would add that to the list!!!

[The Zanti Regent]

14. Love to play bridge

I was a real bridge whiz back in college, bidding with the Precision club system. It was a lot of fun back then!

[salin]

15. Euchre!

Can't grow up in this part of the midwest and not spend hours and hours (weeks and months) playing euchre!

[SiobhanClancy]

18. I learned to play euchre down in the Keys...

Some friends from Ohio taught me. It's a great game:)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

22. O my god.....

That's what Chad and I play :-)

[salin]

23. Just goes to show

somehow somewhere... you have a little bit a midwestern in ya!

[bif]

31. Euchre all the way.

Is it just a Midwest game?

[Whitacre D_WI]

32. Euchre.

Euchre's my game, through and through. I can't count the times I skipped class to play Euchre in the Beloit College cafeteria. We had a whole set of rituals around the game, too.

[arwalden]

16. Gin

[arwalden]

20. UNO! is also fun.

[Kat45]

21. Whist!

Love that game; haven't played it in years. When I was in college, we had a whist game going around the clock. Sometimes kids would skip a class because they finally had a seat at the table.

[phillybri]

24. Blackjack, Poker, Hearts, Rummy 500....

Good times!!!

:-)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

25. Canasta -- in Brazil it's called "Buraco" (hole).

But the canastas themselves are called CanastRas. Lots of variations here, but mainly the aces and deuces are worth only 15 points instead of 20. And there are no top-card restrictions of taking from the discard pile. And red threes aren't special, etc.

Buraco rules seem to be a lot more simple than what I found here: http://www.pagat.com/rummy/canasta.html

Edit: typo

[LTR]

26. Poker

5-card, 7-card, Baseball (3 and 9 wild, 4 buys another card).

Actually won some money Saturday night in our card game. 'Bout time!

[mac56]

27. 52 Pick-up!

No, just kidding.

Hearts.

[DEM FAN]

29. Mine. 52 Pick-Up.

:evilgrin:

[ElsewheresDaughter]

30. Canasta my fav too,......then slap jack and crazy eights with the kiddies

oh and of course...... sigh...... war

[Lizz612]

34. Fluxx!

I bought my sister a deck for christmas so that I could take the other deck to college.

With a regular deck: war, Gin, and 500. Apparently the version of 500 that my friend taught a bunch of us is only played in certain parts of St. Paul, its even called the West End version, which is the part of town I live in.