Newmarket (card game) - help please

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I spent many enjoyable hours as a child playing card games with my grandparents. DD (7) has recently shown an interest and we've been playing gin rummy, patience, click patience and trumps etc. Not sure if these are the commonly known names btw, well for trumps anyway, or just what my gran and grandfather called them.

There was one that we called Newmarket which I loved but I'm bit hazy on how it was played and wondered if anyone could help me out from what I remember.

There were 3 cards - 'the horses' in the middle usually a Jack, Queen, king or ace which had the money on them (we played with 2ps etc)

If you got one of the horses out (so presuming the horses came from a second deck) you won the money on that card.

I think you laid the cards in order but I'm not sure how it started, I remember 'knocking' when you couldn't go so presume they were laid eg 2,3,4 hearts then if you had 5 hearts you could lay it on your turn. Not sure how the initial card was decided or how you swapped suit??

Also I'm pretty sure the prize money on each horse increased as the game went on but I'm not sure how or when it got laid.

I hope that makes sense, any help greatly appreciated

That's obviously clock patience 🤦🏻‍♀️

We play that. Always started with 2 of clubs. When a suit got jammed as noone could go, the next player lays their lowest card in the other colour. Carry on. We had kings in the. Middle so laying queen won the money.

And money in middle was won by the first to lay their last card.

Ah the 2 of clubs does sound familiar. We must of played it slightly differently then with the other cards in the middle. Thank you so much Rainin x

We have 4 cards ace of spades, queen diamonds, Jack clubs, king hearts. (Obviously from a second pack of cards)
Players bet 5 coins, 4 to put on horses of their choice, the other goes in the kitty in the middle.

All cards are dealt out, but the dealer has 2 hands to choose from, if he doesn’t like the first hand he can swap to his second one, but not swap back.
Person to his left starts with his lowest card (ace is low) and the other players follow in suit when they can.
When you get to a point where no player has the following card (because it’s in the dealers spare hand), the last player to play a card puts down his lowest card.

Evetunally one of the players will put down a card which matches one of the horses and gets the money on the horse. The first player to play all his cards gets the kitty and the round finishes. With unclaimed money remaining on the horses.

The deal then passes to the player on the left and he gets the two cards.

Position younger player next to older ones so that they can help find cards in their hands.

HTH

10 clubs
J diamonds
Q spades
K hearts (all taken from another deck to what your playing with)
And a kitty in the middle. Everyone places 1p in the kitty and 1p on the card of their choice.

1 person is dealer and deals everyone 1 hand but they themselves have 2 hands. Deal until all cards are dealt.

Dealer then picks 1 of the 2 hands to look at. They can decide if they want to keep that hand or chance it that their other hand is better.

If they look at their second hand they cant go back to their first hand.
If the dealer chooses not to look at their second hand any other player can buy it for 1p which goes in the kitty.
If noone wants the second hand or the dealer discards the first hand these cards are not in play for the rest of that round.

The person on the left of the dealer starts the game by playing either their lowest red card (ace is low in this game) or lowest black card (it does not have to be their lowest card overall)

They are to place their chosen lowest face up on the table and declare what it is. The person who has the next card of that suit does the same and carries on until either no card can be played or a king is reached.

Once this happens the person who last played a card then has to play their lowest of the opposite colour to what they played.

If they have none the person on their left must play the lowest card colour of which the player on their right couldn't play.

Play continues until one person is out of cards they are the winner and win the money in the kitty and the round is over. The person who went first in last round is now dealer and can restart a round.

During play if a players manages to play one of the card with the kitty 10 clubs J diamonds, Q spades K hearts) during a round they can collect the money on that card.
If one of those cards does not come into play the money stays on until someone in a later round wins it.

Hope that makes sense.

Bugger it did have paragraphs when I wrote it

Loved playing this as a child. The main thing is that you deal out a ‘dummy hand’, that no one has. This is what makes the game get jammed.

We play broadly as above but with the 9 diamonds as a fifth horse. You have to bet 1 on a horse of your choice, 1 on the 9D and one in the kitty. You take the 8D out of the pack you are playing with so to win the 9D you have to lead with it. The money on it really builds up!

Dealer gets two hands in our version and can sell their second hand unseen to the highest bidder

Amazing, thank you all so much. I'd totally forgotten about the spare hand but you've explained it perfectly. I can't wait for everyone to get home for a game now!!

Another who loves playing newmarket here. We also play a card came called strip jack naked.

Used to love playing Newmarket. We used to start with sevens so could progress up and down the pack.

Whoever had the seven of diamonds started.

We played it with four Kings as the "horses". A penny in (the kitty) and a penny on (one of the Kings).
An extra hand dealt.
When the Queen is played you get the money off the King of the same suit. The king is then turned over as it is dead.
Carry on until there is one King left with all the money going on that one.
Played it at all family get togethers and still love it.

We still play this and it's such a great game for all ages

There is a lot of information about the game online. This is a nice article about it.

I might try it on the DGCs.

I played it as a child, also a game called Crown and Anchor. Another simple one, but it needs dice with queen, kings, jokers etc, rather than the usual numbers.

I loved playing this, I might suggest it next time we're all together. Mum had (still has) a jar of old sixpences and we all got the same number to play with. All handed back in afterwards of course, Mum is horrified by actual gambling!

We play with 10 diamond, jack clubs, queen hearts, king spades and everyone blind bets on a horse and into the pot. Then you deal one more hand than there are people and the person to the left of the dealer starts with their lowest red. Then the same as others. Interesting to see how many versions there are!

We just played this again at Christmas, first time in about 30 years! It was a lot of fun.