Charles Dance fanboying about Dame Judi Dench and Dame Maggie Smith
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If anyone was wondering how to play Bitch (I was wondering) here’s what I found:
[ID: gif of Charles Dance talking to an interviewer saying, “COuple of years ago, I directed a film with Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. It’s called Ladies in Lavendar. And they don’t come any better than Judi Dench and Maggie Smith, right? Those two would turn up on set 7 o'clock in the morning and be there until 7 o'clock at night. One would be doing the Telegraph corssword, the other would be doing a needlepoint. Or they would be playing a card game called Bitch. The rules- of which they’ve tried to explain to me, but I could never really understand it.
They didn’t want to rehearse. They could be talking about the price of eggs, the state of the weather… Kinda 30 seconds before the board is clapped, and they would go straight to the scene and do it. And ‘cut’ is called, and then they’d be, ‘what were we talking about?’ or ‘whose turn is it with Bitch?’
Reply images are from a post from a google group from kittyVogue. It reads: Play the game “Bitch” all the time. So here are the rules that we play by: Need two decks of playing cards including jokers. [1] Each player is dealt 13 cards. With one facing up in the center. [2] Start play to the left as in any card game. [3] On your turn, pick up card from deck. Throw one in center/discard pile. [4] To go into play, you must first lay down three of a kind. Known as three originals. [5] After this, you may use deuces as wild cards. [6] Jokers are put down by themselves. Must be down with three originals first.
[7] Lay down as many three of a kind as you can, keep in mind can add more. For example, if have five kings in your hand, they all go down together. When it is your turn, lay down any three of a kind you have in your hand. [8] You can only pick up the cards in the middle if you have two cars in your hand, that match the top card. If you pick up the cards in the middle you must use the top card with others into play immediately. Remember you must pick up all the cards in the middle, even if you only wish to use the top one. [9] You cannot pick up any cards from the middle unless you have at least three originals down first, and there must be at least three cards in the middle. [10] When dealing, cut the cards to deal. If you deal 13 cards to everyone, and have one left to put in the center, then this is considered to be a perfect deal. Worth 100 points. [11] Jokers worth 50 points, deuces worth 25 points, aces worth 20 points, face cards - 10 points, and all other cards (from 3-9] are worth 5 points. [12] First player to get 2100 wins the game. [13] If you wish to block someone from picking up the cards in the discard pile, lay out a card that matches one in their set of three of a kind. They can’t pick up the pile if the top card matches one of their three of a kind. They are blocked.
[9] You can either pick from the pack, or all the cards in the center, not both. [15] At the end of your turn, you must always discard one card except at end of hand you can lay down all your cards into sets of three or more. Hope that this is not too confusing. Have fun. Have you ever played the game “School?” Lots of fun too. /end ID]
