To ask if you can name this card game?

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The object is simply to get rid of your cards, and catch your opponents with as many points as possible. You start with 7 cards and a face-down deck of the rest in the middle. You play it like rummy, trying to get runs or 3/4 of a kind, but you put them down as you go, and other people can add to yours, for example if you put down 4,5,6 of hearts, someone else can add 7 of hearts when it's their turn, as long as they have put down a run or set already.

You pick up at the beginning and discard at the end of your go, but when you discard, you overlap the cards so you can see the discard pile. When it's your go, you can pick up any in the discard pile but you have to take all the cards on top of it as well.

I'm sure the name is a long word, but I can't remember it! Help!

Floats? Where ace then 2 then 3 etc is any card to place a set but if you're caught with the 'float' at the end it's worth 25 points?

@Gatehouse77 you’re right! It did involve two decks! The only card games I ever play now Are rummy, blackjack, poker and something that for some reason we call shithead

Shithead is brilliant too, although I haven't played it in years and probably can't remember how.

Yes @Scentsandsensible Shithead was huge in the 90s. My friends and I used to play it endlessly. I've been trying to remember how to play it so that I can teach my game obsessed DS. (I will also need to think of something else to call it to avoid condoning swear words)

Our family favourites (apart from Consolation/whatever) are Knockout Whist and Nomination Whist - great game where you have to decide beforehand how many tricks you're going to win, and if you win more or less you score zero... complicated by including trumps, the number of cards changing, and extra rounds in the middle called Single Blind, Double Blind and No Trumps.

@WildCherryBlossom

Yes *@Scentsandsensible* Shithead was huge in the 90s. My friends and I used to play it endlessly. I've been trying to remember how to play it so that I can teach my game obsessed DS. (I will also need to think of something else to call it to avoid condoning swear words)

I suggest Pighead.

That's how we used to play Gin Rummy - called it Get Shut when I was a kid

We call shit head 'poo head'

Gin rummy or some call it American rummy(or is that another one?!)

We also like Bullshit. But I will need to call it something else for the DC. Maybe 'Nonesense'.

I taught them to play 21s a few years ago (I grew up calling it Pontoon), which they like. DS2 also likes War (which is basically high card).

Was shithead where you lied about which cards you put down to try and get rid of them as soon as possible and you had to call a player out if you thought they were lying and if they were, they had to pick up all the cards from the table?

If so, we used to play this in 6th form. We called it Cheat.

@LockdownLump we always called that Bullshit.

Shithead you have 3 cards face down, 3 face up and some in your hand. You have to clear them all by playing higher cards. Some cards are special so make things happen.

But I've learnt that everyone seems to Have different names (and rules) for card games which makes it hard to play with non family members

Dh and I still play it a lot
Interesting that people have different “special cards”

Ours were
2 (can lay at any time)
10 burns the pack
9 have to play a lower card

Sounds a bit like 2's and 8's?

I think we use 7 not 9 to have to play lower. The dc have to remind me everytime we play

We also love spoons which I first heard about on here.

We call this Pick Up Rummey

Cheat?

@LockdownLump

Was shithead where you lied about which cards you put down to try and get rid of them as soon as possible and you had to call a player out if you thought they were lying and if they were, they had to pick up all the cards from the table?

If so, we used to play this in 6th form. We called it Cheat.

That's Bullshit, which funnily enough I mentioned just above your post. Cheat is a better name for the DC.

Sounds like what I learnt as spit’ but you would only put down numbers in order, so if there was a 4 you could put down 5,6,7,6,5 etc.

[quote Scentsandsensible]@Gatehouse77 you’re right! It did involve two decks! The only card games I ever play now Are rummy, blackjack, poker and something that for some reason we call shithead [/quote]
Yep, we play Shithead too!

The kids called it Shi-thead 😜

It sounds like a card-based version of Rummikub, which is played with tiles rather than cards.

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We called it Slam! I was excellent at it haha. We used to okay it in the sixth form common room and it basically turned into a spectator sport

Wait no, Slam is different: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/nov/22/rules-card-games-slam