Passing time by with Card Games

hehehe,
i think this is so funny that in 1 thread, Kami bhai actually tells/suggests to me to start a thread on guppies meeting on vc & i can’t help myself & follow his order.

& now, i’m doing the exact same thing as Muzna wanted me to open up a thread on a card game she was inquiring about how to play & voila, i follow her order :wink: as to how the game works.

this is when Pakistani culture totally rocks when it’s true, our culture does stand for something as chotay barou kee baat mantai hai. :slight_smile:

Okay. As the title suggets: card games!
As mentioned in the other thread, my all-time favourit is “Spoons” where my friends & I as 6th to 8th graders used to play. You’re actually suppose to use spoons in the game; but blah, pens are enough. Spoons? Pens? Same thing!

K.

So you get a group of ppl playing. Have them sit in a circle, & layout in the centre of the circle 1 pen less than the total number of ppl playing the game. eg if 5 ppl are playing, layout 4 pens in the centre.

Shuffle the cards, & hand out 4 cards to each player. Now the whole point is that those 4 cards you get are to be the same in number or royalty-like or jacks or aces or whatever. eg all 4 cards should be 6 of hearts, 6 of diamonds, 6 of spades, 6 of cloves. Or another eg, king of hearts, king of diamonds, k of cloves, k of spades, etc you get my point. They have to be the same type.

Process of the game:
Beside 1 player – let’s call him/her A – are the remaining cards which are face down. Player A now picks up the card from the untouched deck…sees what type of card it is. If he likes it (ie of a type he already has) then he keeps it & passes Player B another card from player A’s card (which he didn’t want). Player B looks at that card he gets…if he wants it..keeps it & passes another card he doesn’t want to Player C else he’d pass the same card to Player C. & etc till the end of the circle wher the last player just stacks the card no one wanted in a seperate player.

& so once again, player A picks up another card from his stack & the whole process begins all over again.

Now, mind you, it seems slow at first. But oh my gosh Muzna, this games gets so fast once you get the hang of it. & god knows who knows who has what type of card & who are on the verge of getting the same type of card.

Though, as soon as one of the players realizes that all his/her cards are the same, that’s when (this is when the fun comes in) he/she quickly grabs a pen which was positioned in the centre of the cicle. & if you see anyone grab a pen, then you gotta quickly grab one asap. & the one who’s left without a pen…is the loser for that round & receives the letter “S”.

Then Round 2 begins all over again & if that same person who lost in the previous round loses again, he’ll get an “P” next & etc with the rounds & etc with the SPOONS spelling as the game progresses. & if one player in particular actually ends up with all the letters – then he/she is out of the game & the game resumes with the remaining players.
& there’s the game for ya.

Holy shoot. I remember how my hand woudl get scratched by my friends while grabbing the pens or me scratching others…if i’d play this game now…i think i’d actually wound the other players’ hands since i’m all into nailcare & noooo way would i cut 'em for the game as much as i love it.

& oh gosh my fingers hurt so much from typing all this that i’m gonna stop. Ok, Muzna, i hope you were actually able to follow with me expalaining the game cuz honestly, if there’s anything i sux at, is explaining to ppl, like directing them. :slight_smile:

Sounds a bit like a game we used to play called "chase the Ace".

One ace would be left out of the deck, and the rest shared out.

Everyone then had to pick off each other, and if that card matched exactly with another card they had then they would throw them down i.e two jacks.

The one who was left with the ace at the end lost.( As there were only 3 to begin with.)

It is not Bridge, Rmi, or Rung, haha, Kohal remember me, how are u?

Ok i have one
me and my bhai used to play this all the time

Remove all A's 2's 3's and 4's from the deck

now start dealing
first make two piles of four cards on the table all facing down
the rest of em are dealt bw the two players
which are kept facing down infront of em

each player is only allowed to have four cards in hand at one time

the game starts by inverting the top cards from each pile
So if its a '8' then either you can throw a 9 or a 7

the object is to finish off the pile of cards infront of you first

If you get stuck then just invert the next card from the four card pile in the middle

Did that make any sense?

thaaaaaaaaasssssshhhhhhhhh!

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aww- may mom’s side of the family was big on card-playing. they had to be- nine kids :wink:
..anyway, me ad bhai had to keep with tradition and learned tons of card games.

anchal- i think i know which game you are talking about…sounds familiar, but my version was a bit different..and it’s way to difficult to explain online, at least for me. but- aww, the memories!

that reminds me of when i went to pakistan when i was very little, and bhai and i tried playing uno with our cousins, but they didn’t understand how to play, and kept getting mad when me and bhai would just play by ourselves…they were especially mad at me because i was five and a girl! (i had only boy cousins at the time..so little did they know a girl could be smart!) :wink:

i luv reunions- i always luv watching my aunti’s and uncles playing thaash. they even cheating like they did when they were younger.

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Thanks so much for explaining kohal. And for opening this thread. Sorry that it felt like an order to you....I meant it as a request.

I'll try to set up the game as you've described......wish me luck in getting it right.

Muzna, it was totally not an order-like. Trust me. :) Though, with my directions, GOODLUCK in getting it right. ;)

Mang!!!! Loser head, ofcourse i remember you. & where have you been!? Parhai kasee chal rahee hay...

well, i used to play a card game called 'SET' in the sixth grade..i went looking for it last year...checked every where...turned out the company stopped manufacturing it....it was soooooooo cool..

nowadays i usually play 'black queen' (aka hearts but a bit different) with my parents' friends.

Card games! wow. been so long since i played any. I used to play "rang" with my dad and bros. My dad taught me how to play it, and this other one, i can't remember what it's called.
One of the card games we never got exhausted playing as kids was UNO. Every time we got together with cousins, uno it was. used to team up boys against girls and then beat the crap outta each other. :D aah, the good old days