A quick refresher on some old-school card games brought to you by Bicycle.
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The king of all holidays is arguably Christmas.
Its a giving time.
Its a time for being with family.
Its a time for favorite old movies.
But most of all, its a time abouttime.
We spend more time with our families during this holiday than most of all the other ones put together.
And so the question is how should you spend that time well?
Youve decorated the tree together, maybe even sang some songs.
Theres plenty of egg nog left, and youve got a great playlist going.
Guess what its time for?
A great pack of cards.
you’re able to play some games that actually take some time to complete.
Games that will really pass the time well.
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Thirty-One
This game is ancient.
Notquiteas old as Christmas itself, but close.
Most variants of this game are known as Cribbage or Blackjack.
It may sound unfamiliar now, but youll remember how this goes pretty quickly.
For the purposes of adding, aces are worth 11.
(Which is probably different from what youre used to.)
The Setup
Everybody gets three face-down cards, and then, three face-up cards.
you might call the three face-up cards the widow.
Failing that, you want to be able to have the highest rank hand in a showdown.
That person automatically wins the pot.
Otherwise, its a test of hand versus hand.
The last player standing (or the first person to 31) wins.
Six Card Golf
Dont be thrown off by the name of this game.
Its not really like golf at all.
The only similarity is that theres nine rounds (or deals).
you’re free to call these holes like in golf.
You want to end up with thelowestvalue of cards.
Yes, this is the point of this game, to have low-ranking cards.
Everybody gets six cards dealt to them from the deck.
The rest of the cards are then put face down, one top card is flipped over.
Each player then has to organize their cards in two rows of three cards each.
Everybody flips two cards face up.
The rest of the cards are hidden.
After the setup, you go nine rounds.
What youre trying to do is get rid of high-ranking cards, and bring down your overall score.
you might also get a zero by having two matching cards, that basically cancel each other out.
Otherwise, aces through ten are worth one point to 10 points.
Youre also going to need several actual spoons.
These are used for keeping score, which will all make sense shortly.
Oh, also, yo remember how to spell!
LIke the basketball gameHorse, you dont want to get all the letters that spell Spoon.
If you do get all those letters, youre out.
Put a bunch of spoons in the center of a table.
Then, using a standard deck, deal four cards to each player.
After this, its going to go nuts.
Youre trying to get four-of-a-kind.
But, then, that person passes the card they dont want to the person on their right.
The first person to get four-of-a-kind grabs a spoon from the center of the table.
When this happens, everybody else can grab a spoon.
However, if you dont get a spoon you get aletter.
Once you get all the letters that spell S-P-O-O-N youre out.
Play goes on like this until theres one person with a spoon who hasnt not spelled-out S-P-O-O-N.
