#m-97viper

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oop, just got around to responding to these! again, thanks for the responses!! for someone who isn’t really that into card games, i really enjoy learning about family traditions involving them

rhubarb-reebarb replied to your post “does anyone else have a family tradition with playing cards?...”

uno! my family and i play it after dinner usually

uno is one of those games where i know it and i’ve definitely played it, but i can’t remember any instances of having played it beyond like one memory. any particular reason for uno/why did y’all start that tradition?

bartcore replied to your post “thanks to everyone who responded! i put it underneath a cut since it...”

my uncle rly likes it and is big on routines bc of mental health so it was always smth we did every summer when we went to the beach like theres never been a time in my life where i didnt play!! we were not a big board game family so skipbo was our go-to. also yep its that one!

oh, neat—having a tradition like that all your life that isn’t like.. holiday/religion related seems kinda rare to me? routines are handy tho!

aydenburd replied to your post “thanks to everyone who responded! i put it underneath a cut since it...”

I was able to Google it using the rules, and learned that apparently all this time our addition of singing Amazing Grace when you lost all of your 'lives'/tokens was just an addition the adults made so you'd have one more chance xD here's the Actual card game: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-nine_(addition_card_game)

GGHK that’s pretty funny!! but also interesting in the way that widespread practices like a card game can be changed in little bits and be modified to suit the individual/family. thank you for looking it up for me, i hope you enjoyed the surprise revelation?? 

m-97viper replied to your post “thanks to everyone who responded! i put it underneath a cut since it...”

i dont have any specific memories worth mentioning, but i did teach a bunch of my classmates in HS how to play shanghai rummy. one of them played in a group with me and 2 of my friends, but he quit because he wasn't winning (he always won at the other game we played so i guess he just couldnt stand it). i also keep most of the scorecards from when i win. my dad has a bad habit of getting either really bad scores or winning by a landslide (no inbetween)

ahh, sore losers. i’ve never been the best or worst at card games, just sort of middling. it’s neat that you keep most of the scorecards, my family never keeps score of our pre-meal games. in extensive including-relatives family game sessions of pounce we’d keep score, but i’m not really sure where the scores went after that. i haven’t played in a long while either

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thanks to everyone who responded! i put it underneath a cut since it got a bit extensive. feel free to answer further if you’d like, but also no obligations! i find this all very neat :0

steeviemimi replied to your post “does anyone else have a family tradition with playing cards?...”

My mom gets overwhelmed by card games very easily, but due to extended family poor health we spent a lot of time waiting in airports and playing King's in the Corner (A multipleyer solitaire). The rules are simple and the pacing slow enough that my mom can keep up, but there's enough strategy to keep the rest of us engaged. That "strategy" involves hoarding key cards and my mom likes to joke with us and accuse us all of cheating when we do hoard

oh interesting! i haven’t heard of king’s corner, but for a bit my family was really into that computer game spider solitaire and my mother would literally play it for hours at night. how did y’all come to find out about that game specifically?

also hehe accusing others of cheating was like a staple of our family games of pounce. the younger kids obviously were cheating, but also we often tried to give them easier rules to play by since there are like three different moving parts to managing your game setup. 

secretagentdragon replied to your post “does anyone else have a family tradition with playing cards?...”

Cheat was really big with my family when I was younger

oh is that an alternate name for BS? i find it neat that certain games have so many different names and iterations. did you all play it at family gatherings or just in your immediate family? did you like playing it yourself? i’m personally not fond of playing BS, just because i’m a bad bluffer and strategist haha!

bartcore replied to your post “does anyone else have a family tradition with playing cards?...”

skipbo was big in our family!!

oh i haven’t heard of skipbo! i looked it up a little and it’s one of those specifically branded/packaged card games as opposed to ones with playing cards yeah? how did y’all come to know about it?

foxesforsale replied to your post “does anyone else have a family tradition with playing cards?...”

not myself, but my friend's family plays Scopa, the italian card game CONSTANTLY, its been passed down generation to generation

oh that’s really cool! wikipedia calls it “one of the two major national card games in Italy,” that’s pretty prestigious. i’ve never seen an italian deck, i like how illustrative the example ones on the wiki look!

m-97viper replied to your post “does anyone else have a family tradition with playing cards?...”

my family always plays card games together! mostly shanghai rummy. we've been playing it since i was a kid

i don’t think i’ve ever played that iteration! my immediate family and i have a practice of playing a version of gin rummy while waiting for food when we’re dining out on vacation haha! do you have any specific memories of a game? 

aydenburd replied to your post “does anyone else have a family tradition with playing cards?...”

Yup, some game called "amazing grace" we'd always play at all our family gatherings haha

google turns nothing up for yours! interesting, a mysterious last card game!! it’s a bit hard to describe or understand card games without a demonstration imo, but do you have any comparisons for it? did someone specific in the family teach everyone? my aunt is the one who taught us all pounce, it’s something she learned from her college roommate.

charmingheathen replied to your post: “does anyone else have a family tradition with playing cards?...”:

my family doesn't play monopoly because we get too angry :')

LMAo oh no! i’m assuming the board game? my immediate family and i used to play that, fortunately we only had anger escalations once or twice.

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@m-97viper replied to your post

shit what an asshole. im so sorry you had to deal with that!

I mean, I can admire their passion for representation of non-binary people, but I think they could also C A L M  D O W N just a teeny tiny bit...  (also maybe try to understand my reasons for writing Hange as a girl? cause I have good reasons?)  I’ve now figured out how to turn off anonymous asks, so I think I’ll do that for a little while until they get tired and move on.

@punkdean-is-my-dream replied to your post

FUCK THEM UP RAVEN! Screw that anon!!!

Haha, I had so much fun with that!  Oh boy.  It’s terrible.  Because I know I should be offended, but... I’m not?  I’m just bored of it.  

But thinking back on it... What if they’re a kid?  Like, a little pre-teen, and they... That would make so much sense.  I should not have said some of what I did...  Damn it.

Anyway, many many thanks to both of you for the encouragement! <3 <3