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Fun Card Games How To Play

October 21st, 2008 |

Author: Bryan

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What are some fun card games to play between 2 people?

My boyfriend and I are always playing speed these days… and we hate rummy, but can’t remember any other card games we used to play! We don’t wanna be all out of card games once speed gets boring, so I was wondering, what are some simple card games like speed that you know how to play?

Any other fun card game suggestions?

Please explain.

10 points to funnest game!

Thanks!
I said explain. You both fail.

My wife and I played a great many two-hand card games in our younger years. Here are the ones we settled on as being our personal favorites.

Cribbage
Spite and Malice
Two-hand Canasta
Two- Hand Pinochle (A game that requires more skill than any other two-hand card game)

CRIBBAGE

Everyone has heard of this game. This is a classic, two-hand card game and one of the very best. Of course you will need a cribbage board.

SPITE & MALICE

Spite and Malice is one of the most popular two-hand games played in the United States.It is especially popular as a husband vs. wife game in many parts of the U.S. It is almost impossible for one player to be so far behind that he/she must abandon hope of winning. The opponent may be down to his last card, while you have scarcely started, and you can still run out the game on him/her. In mechanics, Spite and Malice is very similar to the principle solitaire games.

TWO HAND CANASTA

Canasta, also known by the less common name of Argentine Rummy, originated in Uruguay but became popular as a fad in the card clubs of Argentina by 1949. It quickly emigrated to the United States where it reached its height of popularity from 1949 to the mid 1950s and was the biggest game fad the U.S. had witnessed since Mah-Jongg in the 1920s. For awhile during the early 1950s, Canasta exceeded Contract Bridge in popularity. The word canasta is Spanish, meaning basket, and may first have been applied to the tray placed in the center of the table to hold the stock and discards. For anyone who enjoys Rummy card games, Canasta and its variants will prove their worth.
There are many, many variations of Canasta, some of them require four and six decks of cards. The base game is played with only two decks. SUGGESTION: Instead of a single draw from stock, do a two card draw. This speeds up the game.

TWO-HAND PINOCHLE

Quoting John Scarne, author of Scarne’s Encyclopedia of Card Games, “Although not played as often as three and four-handed versions of the game (Pinochle), two-hand Pinochle is, in my opinion, the one game of the Pinochle family demanding of the player the most skill. No, I’ll go further than that: In this game there is more room and need for strategy than in any other two-handed game. In most two-handed games, including Gin Rummy, a lucky beginner can occasionally hold his own against an expert in a session lasting over several hours. In two-hand Pinochle, the element of skill is decisive, over the short or long run.” Aside from the melding aspect of Two-Hand Pinochle, the game bears little resemblance to its four-hand counterparts.

NOTE: To play any form of Pinochle, you will need a deck of Pinochle cards consisting of 48 cards. There is no card below a ‘9’ in a Pinochle deck.

See the following link for rules and other two hand card games:

http://www.pagat.com/alpha.html#p

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