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Best Card Game Besides Poker

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  1. wizkid83

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    Chinese game called "shengji" or 80 points. Basically spade on crack, challenging and skilled based, puts almost all other card game to shame (besides poker).
     
    #21 wizkid83, Jul 14, 2009
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    Deuces. (Aka Deuces High, Big Two, Chinese Poker etc.) Very popular in Chinese communities. It's the best card game I ever played (including Poker which has such a luck element to it), very strategic and tactical.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Two


    Bid Whist. Pretty fun trick-taking game. A cousin of Bridge. It's a very popular game in Hawaii, where it's known as Trumps.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bid_whist
     
    #22 m_cable, Jul 14, 2009
  3. Kam

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    Duh. Magic: the gathering.
     
    #23 Kam, Jul 14, 2009
  4. Hydhypedplaya

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    VC... HANDS DOWN
     
    #24 Hydhypedplaya, Jul 14, 2009
  5. Chopped

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    brings back high school memories.
     
    #25 Chopped, Jul 14, 2009
  6. ScriboErgoSum

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    My family are big card players. When we used to visit my grandmother in Alabama, we'd usually wind up seeing my dad's numerous cousins and have a half dozen games going on at once. Every summer, there would be some new card game that was in vogue, usually a derivative of Bridge.

    We played a game called Setback quite a bit, and I still play that game to this day with my dad. I also like Cribbage, which my wife and I play. Oh Hell is another great game, especially with a decent size group.
     
    #26 ScriboErgoSum, Jul 15, 2009
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    VC and Spades
     
    #27 Yak, Jul 15, 2009
  8. StupidMoniker

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    Sober:
    Gin Rummy
    Canasta
    Drinking:
    *******
    F*** the dealer
     
    #28 StupidMoniker, Jul 15, 2009
  9. JuanValdez

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    Gin
    Fool
    Spades
     
    #29 JuanValdez, Jul 15, 2009
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    VC
    Spades
     
    #30 doboyz, Jul 15, 2009
  11. DwangBoy

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    Bridge!
     
    #31 DwangBoy, Jul 15, 2009
  12. rubytuesday

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    speed and VC are good. i forgot about VC! didn't it have another name? what's funny, is i played it with my relatives in taiwan and they knew the game too!

    my favorite tho was Egyptian Rat Screw. i was awesome at that!! i play oh **** with my in-laws and that is pretty fun too.
     
    #32 rubytuesday, Jul 15, 2009
  13. aussiejack

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    i guess no one here has the sophistication to play bridge...what a shame
     
    #33 aussiejack, Jul 15, 2009
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    Yes, no one in the states knows this great game. Also bridge is real cool but requires a lot more skill to play.
     
    #34 pirc1, Jul 15, 2009
  15. Mike Hunt

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    blackjack
     
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    bridge
    bang
    munchkin
     
    #36 kokopuffs, Jul 15, 2009
  17. MoonDogg

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    Your elitist generalization amuses me.
     
    #37 MoonDogg, Jul 15, 2009
  18. Mr. Clutch

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    Bridge.
     
    #38 Mr. Clutch, Jul 15, 2009
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    BlackJack
    Spades
    Gin Rummy
    Magic
    Lunch Money
    Uno
    Skip Bo
     
    #39 CrazyDave, Jul 15, 2009
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    I've played bridge, but it wasn't one of my favorite card games.

    ... probably because I was never any good at it. Like many things, it takes practice to become proficient at it. I don't know many people who play cards (much less bridge) to practice with.
     
     
    #40 droxford, Jul 15, 2009
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