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Orville Smith New user 87 Posts 
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For me,Cribbage. I notice that I'm Only the 2nd gent on this thread that likes Cribbage.
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16543 Posts
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Is there a card game that keeps one fit?
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts
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In my oil days, cribbage was the game. You'd drop into a gas plant and enjoy a cup of coffee and a game of crib with the operator, then move on with the rest of your work day. Good times.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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On Feb 14, 2017, LobowolfXXX wrote: Ditto. In spades. Quote:
On Feb 14, 2017, LobowolfXXX wrote: Then cribbage. When I was about 12 years old my parents divorced and I went to live with my father. The house that he eventually bought in Orange, CA was owned by a man who collected cribbage boards; when we first came to look at it he had cribbage boards all over the house. He had one hanging on the wall in the hallway outside what became my bedroom; it was about 2½ feet (¾ meters) long and about 8 inches (20 cm) wide. He had another made from a large tree branch that forked: the holes started together along the main branch, then one player's followed one branch of the fork while the other player's followed the other branch of the fork. He had another made from an ivory tusk; I think that it was a walrus tusk, but it may have been an elephant tusk. All in all, a very impressive (and beautiful) collection of cribbage boards. |
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16543 Posts
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Speaking of collections, my son today bought what he thought was a pillow but the pillow case was full of small silk hankies, mainly from World War I. They are all nicely embroidered with messages, remember this this and that. There is one plain one which is Cartier of Paris. I guess soldiers sent them back home to the girls in letters or something. I haven’t fund one signed Cardini though.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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imgic Inner circle Moved back to Midwest to see 1338 Posts
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Growing up in Wisconsin everyone played cribbage. In high school we spent lucked playing Sheepshead or Euchre...
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts
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On Feb 19, 2017, S2000magician wrote: I'm also a big cribbage fan. My grandfather carved a couple of great boards. We'll have to play some if our schedules ever permit our getting together again!
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2889 Posts
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Vegas style solitare, usually two games in a row. When my kids were younger, there was a lot of crazy eights, not so much now.
We also like Uno (which is like crazy eights with teeth!) but again, not so much these days.
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts
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On Feb 19, 2017, imgic wrote: Do they play Crokinole in Wisconsin?
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
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Marlin1894 Special user 559 Posts
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On Feb 19, 2017, imgic wrote: WI here as well, Was wondering when Sheepshead would come up. I'm a big fan of both Cribbage and Sheepshead. I used to play Cribbage almost everyday and was in a running five handed Sheepshead game weekly for about 10 years. I've never played Crokinole or knew anyone who did. |
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Cliffg37 Inner circle Long Beach, CA 2491 Posts
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I have a poker game I am involved in with some friends. The game is dealers choice. I usually go for stud, nothing wild or fancy. I do get tired of hearing "watch out there's a magician in the room" though.
Magic is like Science,
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foolsnobody Special user Buffalo, NY 843 Posts
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Speaking of bridge, as only two people were, back in the days when every city had a rubber bridge club or more than one, sometimes the players liked to play Klabberjass, or Klabiash, or Klob. I never got the hang of it, but some really good bridge players (aka hustlers) all thought highly of the game. Are Lobo or S2000magician familiar with that game? And do you guys still play online as partners? Are you both K-S fans? Did you ever play together at a tournament in RL?
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts
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On Feb 20, 2017, foolsnobody wrote: I'm not familiar with that game. We haven't played online in quite a while; we're due (although I'm pretty busy nowadays and S2000 is *extremely* busy, so it's probably not happening anytime soon). I can't take or leave K-S; it's not in my top 2, but S2000 likes it and I don't mind it, somthats what we play as partners. Although we've met several times, live close to each other, and are huge bridge fans, we have yet to play at a club or tournament in person. Hopefully that will change.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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EndersGame Inner circle Reviewer EndersGame 2198 Posts
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CARD GAME
For 2: Cribbage & Scopa For 3+: Oh Hell SOLITAIRE GAME: Adding/pairing: Golf & Monte Carlo Fan style: La Belle Lucie (using one of several variation rules to make it easier) |
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Orville Smith New user 87 Posts
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Quite often,I see it being spoken or written that Cribbage is better as a TWO-player game rather than 3 or 4. I don't see why because I've enjoyed it as much in all of the versions. Admittedly,the 3-player version feels somewhat awkward but with 4 players, it felt just as enjoyable as with two, although of course the strategy is different, which is good, for the sake of variety. Also, it was easy during the 1970s for me to find another partner practically every day but I could get a 4-player version only once a month because the other two players came to my town only monthly.
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Feral Chorus Elite user CA 495 Posts
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Four handed cribbage is a good game. Three handed cribbage is awkward, but not as awkward as three handed hearts. I don't really like playing either three handed. I used to play a lot of bridge but it is much harder to find players these days and I never got involved with it online.
Anybody play casino? That game was guaranteed to infuriate me at some point during the course of play. |
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Orville Smith New user 87 Posts
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Yes, Feral, I play Casino, or, should I say, used to play it. Nowadays I play only Cribbage.
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