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.
