{"id":1260,"date":"2012-08-11T12:16:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T16:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2012-08-11T12:16:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T16:16:35","slug":"card-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/card-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Card games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I talked about the type of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/board-games\/\">board games<\/a> I&#8217;ve been playing in the last 7 or 8 years or so. Before I discovered those games I played a lot of card games, and I still play cards on occasion.<\/p>\n<p>The number one rule in any real card game is you have to follow suit. This means that if the person who leads plays a club (for example) then you have to play a club (if you don&#8217;t have one you can play whatever you want). If you&#8217;re playing a card game that doesn&#8217;t contain this rule, it&#8217;s not a real card game.<\/p>\n<p>Many games contain the concept of trump. Trump is a suit that&#8217;s (temporarily) better than the other suits &#8212; for example, if diamonds is trump then any diamond will beat any club, heart, or spade.<\/p>\n<p>When each player plays one card (in clockwise order), that&#8217;s called a trick.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the best card games:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bid euchre\n<ul>\n<li>This game is played with 2 decks of 9 and up. Along with your partner you bid on the number of tricks you think you will take. Whoever bids the highest gets to make trump, pick up the &#8220;kitty&#8221; (4 cards left over after dealing) and discard 4 cards, and lead. In addition to having one of the 4 suits trump you can also have high (aces are best) or low (9s are best). The other team tries to stop you from making your bid. Everyone deals twice, so a 4-player game lasts 8 rounds.<\/li>\n<li>If you make your bid you get as many points as you have tricks. If you don&#8217;t make your bid you get negative the number of tricks you bid. The other team gets as many points as they have tricks.<\/li>\n<li>You can go alone for 20 points by taking your partner&#8217;s two best cards (and discarding two more) or 40 points with no cards from your partner &#8212; but you have to get all 10 tricks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Hearts\n<ul>\n<li>The lowest score wins in this game. Each heart is worth 1 point and the queen of spades is worth 13 points. If you take a trick with a heart or the queen of spades on it you get those points. Most of the time you&#8217;re trying not to take tricks with points on them. The game ends when one person gets more than 100 points. The person with the 2 of clubs leads the first trick.<\/li>\n<li>An alternative strategy in any particular round is to take all of the points &#8212; if you&#8217;re successful you get 0 points and all other players get 26 points (if you&#8217;re not successful you might get a lot of points).<\/li>\n<li>At the beginning of most rounds you pass 3 cards to another player. In a 4-player game you would pass to the person on your left, the person across from you, the person on your right, and then yourself (ie. every 4th round is a &#8220;keep&#8221; round).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Oh heck\n<ul>\n<li>After dealing to all players a card is turned up to indicate trump. You bid on how many tricks you think you will take. Then you try to get exactly that many &#8212; if you get exactly the number of tricks you bid you get a 10-point bonus. If you don&#8217;t get the number of tricks you bid you get for points the number of tricks you take. So if you bid 3 and take 3 you get 13 points. If you bid 3 and take 2 you get 2 points. If you bid 3 and take 4 you get 4 points. The person to the left of the dealer leads.<\/li>\n<li>In the first round you get 7 cards (this number can easily be changed), then in the second round you get 6, and so on all the way down to 1 card &#8212; and then you go back up to 7.<\/li>\n<li>When the dealer bids they can&#8217;t bid a number that will make the number of bids equal the number of tricks &#8212; for example, if you have 7 cards and 5 tricks have already been bid the dealer can&#8217;t bid 2 (they can bid 0, 1, 3, or higher).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I talked about the type of board games I&#8217;ve been playing in the last 7 or 8 years or so. Before I discovered those games I played a lot of card games, and I still play cards on occasion. 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