RE: Levels of Education
November 8, 2014 at 8:39 am
(This post was last modified: November 8, 2014 at 8:40 am by Whateverist.)
And death to the infidel! I think we get out a little aggression that way. She won't play rummy with me any more but most often still plays Up And Down the River, a two-persion variant of Schmere and Giant Two.
I was shown a game that makes use of the poker ranking of hands which is pretty fun. We play it a lot. Basically you deal five up cards each which are aligned, one against the other, in the center of the table. Each of these will become a five card poker hand. Then you take turns drawing a card off the rest of the deck and placing it face up on one of your cards. You have to complete one level at a time and once placed, you can't move a card. So you can't play a third card to one of your hands until they all have two cards. The last row of cards is played face down so only you know what you have in the end. Then you just go down the line turning up the last card and seeing who wins each set of hands. The loser collapses theirs and then you count the total wins. We play to 10 with sudden death if we tie at 10 which happens often enough.
I was shown a game that makes use of the poker ranking of hands which is pretty fun. We play it a lot. Basically you deal five up cards each which are aligned, one against the other, in the center of the table. Each of these will become a five card poker hand. Then you take turns drawing a card off the rest of the deck and placing it face up on one of your cards. You have to complete one level at a time and once placed, you can't move a card. So you can't play a third card to one of your hands until they all have two cards. The last row of cards is played face down so only you know what you have in the end. Then you just go down the line turning up the last card and seeing who wins each set of hands. The loser collapses theirs and then you count the total wins. We play to 10 with sudden death if we tie at 10 which happens often enough.
