to think that nobody can play cards these days?

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I'm talking about Jacks and aces etc. in case some of you don't know!

When I was a kid, usually my Grannies would play cards with us kids, but sometimes we'd play it as a family and some of my happiest memories are of playing cards.

I know of no-one now who plays really - particularly in England anyway.

Did any of you play cards?

The game we loved was a game called 25 - it's tactical as well as down to luck a bit. We'd often go to visit my aunt and uncle for a night of playing cards and we'd be allowed to play - but EATEN ALIVE for not playing for the table.

I'm also a pretty mean poker player.

My dc play cards, they are 10, 9 & 7. They play a mixture of individual games & simple games like 21 or trumps. When they've finished playing they usually start making card houses!

They also play chess (DS7 only just starting to get it).

We never go on holiday without cards & our games compendium!

We play Cheat, 99 and 7.

*cards, not cars

I saw Irish Snap up-thread. What's the difference to Snap?

Yep. We all play cards, canasta is our current favourite but I am a terrible loser

My children and I play cards all the time. We love rummy.

Whist
Contract Whist (larger hand than regular whist and you have to guess how many tricks you'll win - the point is to guess correctly rather than win the most, so you can end up trying to lose some!)

@thecatsthecats That sounds like Bridge
I have played that but I can't be faffed with all the bidding I just prefer to get on with the game.

Whist Drives play progressive whist where you move around the room according to certain rules so it is quite social because you get to meet and play with a lot of people over the course of the evening

I've never taught dd to play (which I'm now regretting) as dp couldn't play and just playing Frustration resulted in me having to throw the game out as she could not cope with losing. I've never seen anyone who was such a sore loser!

We’re a big card playing family too. Mostly gin, canasta or whist but also crib if there are just two of us. I learnt crib at my granny’s knee and learnt mental arithmetic in 15s!

I’d love to learn to play bridge. I keep looking up classes but am a bit rubbish at getting organised.

We still play cards, usually chase the ace, go fish or newmarket. In fact the GP's are having ds(8) tomorrow night and he's asked to play newmarket when there. Dh plays poker once a month with his friends too.

Though I also work in a secondary school, in maths, and theres always questions when doing probability based on a deck of cards. It's sad the number of kids who have no clue.

Kids grow out of being losers. Explain it’s a game of chance as much as skill.

It’s worth perusing.

That sounds like Bridge
I have played that but I can't be faffed with all the bidding I just prefer to get on with the game.

I'm not sure, we have always played a game that we call Damn and Blast where you have to guess the number of tricks but it isn't played in partnership and seems to be a variation of what Wikipedia lists as Oh Hell.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_Hell

We play Bridge semi regularly.

Used to like playing "sevens "with my Nan as a child.DP and DGP would have whist drives at Christmas, and play for spare change up until 2 am !

When I used to work in Corfu, big groups of us used to while away rainy days by playing a game called Kaluki. I think it involves several packs and was a bit like rummy, but the trump card changed each round and you played up to 13 rounds while keeping score of the hands that people were left with each time. Anyone ever heard of that game? I'd love to play it again - I used to be good and won loads!

Cards are so tedious! And someone always gets too competitive and spoils it.

Shithead is one of the many that I just constantly forget the rules to and have to be reminded of by my family every time we play!

Ones I DO remember the rules to:

Sevens
Queens/Hearts
Whist
Pontoon
Poker, stud, and many of their variants

Many people in London play Texas HE poker. The gambling element and online trend has ensured it remains popular.

It's not much better being around poor winners.

I am almost ashamed to say that one Christmas around DP's parents, I strung a game of Monopoly out for a ridiculous length of time despite it being clear I could not ultimately win, just because I could not possibly concede in the face of the premature and excessive gloating.

Both DC here are cracking poker players and have been since they were small.

DS1 has recently started getting into 30 Rock and laughed til he cried at the scene with Kenneth the Page playing Poker with Jack Donaghy (Jack can't read him because there's nothing in his head) as it's what we've always said about the youngest - his whole head is vacant bar the odd kitten dancing about in there, so he's no tells at all.

We also play bullshit, and it's brilliant fun.

I miss my grandparents getting dirty guts over tuppeny stakes games.

There's a cribbage app on my phone which I love although if these are standard rules, my GPS cheated!!!!!!!

Frustration resulted in me having to throw the game out as she could not cope with losing. I've never seen anyone who was such a sore loser!

I'd keep playing. They only learn to be good losers (and winners) by practising.

Playing cards were a great thing to take caravanning. Just in case there was a brief overcast spell . Cribbage, rummy, bridge, Newmarket, cheat.

There is something magical about seeing a gang of kids really getting into a card game, rather than a device or TV.

DS is now a dealer at a casino and plays poker, blackjack and punto blanco daily ...

Off topic, maybe, but who else noticed that non-Waddington cards are right handed ?

My DC go through card phases quite regularly- poker, black jack, rummy. We join in sometimes and on holiday we play all the time.

We always played cards (in my 50s)
Played loads at 6th form and also at work in lunch break. Not poker.
Played Switch - which seems to be the same as Shithead and is pretty much Uno I think.
Also Spoons (dangerous) and a game called Bonk (where you had 3 lives and lost a life if the next person laid the same card as you)
Cribbage definitely at the local British Legion (singles and doubles)
Newmarket and Sevens as family games for pennies. Cheat was only for the youngsters 😁.
Rummy - yes. Whist not that I recall.
My family weren't posh enough for Bridge.

My family plays kalooki, usually at christmas. We have records of points going back quite a few years. My grandma played cards constantly and this was a favourite game, also my dad was a croupier for a short while in the 60s.

We’ve taught out dds to play rummy and patience. My dh is going to teach them to play poker, but when they’re older.