Fifteen-Two, Fifteen-Four, Pair's Six...
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P and I have been playing Cribbage, which is a good game, and probably more fun than Rummy - at least for us at the moment.
Our book of card games also has rules for Two-handed Hearts, which was entertaining (playing the rule that the Queen of Spades hits you for 13pts).
Aside from Cribbage, Rummy, Hearts and a few versions of patience, we've not tried any of the other games described.
I do remember getting very into Auction Pinochle whilst at Uni, but you need four players for that one, and sadly P & I simply number two (Mali can't really be trusted to join in).
So, any other 2-player card games that you lot recommend?
Our book of card games also has rules for Two-handed Hearts, which was entertaining (playing the rule that the Queen of Spades hits you for 13pts).
Aside from Cribbage, Rummy, Hearts and a few versions of patience, we've not tried any of the other games described.
I do remember getting very into Auction Pinochle whilst at Uni, but you need four players for that one, and sadly P & I simply number two (Mali can't really be trusted to join in).
So, any other 2-player card games that you lot recommend?
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Date: 2009-06-07 03:23 pm (UTC)There was some sort of two-person game my father taught me as a child, called, "Partoot" but I have no recollection of how to play. Rats.
How about a checkerboard?
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Date: 2009-06-08 12:18 pm (UTC)Multiple Solitaire sounds rather good - does that mean that you need two decks of cards to play it, though?
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Date: 2009-06-07 05:22 pm (UTC)My kids have been playing a lot of liar's dice with their friends, using poker chips as tokens of win/loss. That can be fun, but some folks take issue with the premise of that game being deception.
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Date: 2009-06-07 06:43 pm (UTC)I also played a lot of Yahtzee (and Triple Yahtzee) with them, though that, of course, was dice and not cards.
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Date: 2009-06-08 12:22 pm (UTC)It's quite remarkable how flexible a deck of cards can be, in terms of the different games you can play.
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Date: 2009-06-08 01:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-09 03:27 pm (UTC)The other Rummy-based game I used to play with my parents as a kid was what they called 'Canadian Rummy', but I'm not sure it quite followed the rules I've now found for it on the internet (will email you these). The main differences are that you can pick up from further down the discard pile than the last card, but you have to pick up *everything* on top of it as well, and as you make sets of three or four of a kind or running flushes of at least 4 cards, you place these down in front of you. So you can end up with incredibly full hands. And you must remember to have one card left to throw on the discard pile to win the game, as with Rummy.
The internet rules start this with 11 cards per person, and it explains the scoring system, use of wildcards, and also has rules for using your own cards to add to another person's set (which I never did in my childhood version)