Posted on 10/15/2022 10:30:55 AM PDT by circlecity
I just discovered Pinochle and it’s a lot of fun.
pinochle, cribbage, sequence,greedy, rummy....we play it all....
I have to agree on Bridge. My dad back then would have his poker games on Saturdays but my Mom’s friends would play bridge in another room. It got to a point when I was a teen, I don’t even try to sneak in at 2 am because they’re still playing. “so you promised me you’d be back by 12 but it’s 2 now eh? You know you’re grounded right?”
I grew up playing pinochle and loved it. I find it difficult these days to find anyone that wants to play it. They prefer simpler card games or they play bridge.
The rides home were not always the best. Too many arguments over mistakes made. So we stopped playing to save marriage (half kidding on that).
Great game though!
Now we play cribbage (together) and Shanghai (with others)
I used to play all the time but I can’t find people to enjoy the game any more.
I used to play Casino back in college, but I wouldn’t remember the rules now. There are lots of card games that would be popular among one or another group of people I hung out with at various times, and I have forgotten the rules to pretty much every one by now. My wife and I play a little backgammon sometimes, but not card games.
Been playing pinochle since I was in highschool, and that’s a long time ago, LOL. We were playing it every Friday night the past few years up until the gas prices spiked, now we’re down to every other week. Grew up with Sat nights spent at family gatherings where the adults were playing pinichole so it’s a natural thing for us.
Single or Double Deck???
I can’t find anyone around here to play cribbage with me, or bridge, hearts, spades etc. Can’t find Dominoes players or backgammon either. My son says I’m too lucky at dice games too, so refuses to play any. Everyone I know thinks I win too much so they won’t play me.
Love them all, but my specialty is no limit hold em’ poker.
Don’t play with your Grandma.
She has special rules.
Like about 3’s
and other stuff.
always to her advantage, and not in Hoyle, but ‘this is how we always play’
Mom and dad taught me pinochle and cribbage when I was 8 or so. Played single deck until college when my marine friend taught us double deck standard military rules, no passing, no cards in the middle crap. My mom and wife’s family played. I like having my wife as a partner.
As a training consultant for the army in the 80s I carried a cribbage board in my backpack.
Last 5 years I have been playing and teaching American mahjong but i can still play a good game of pinochle and cribbage.
I am a whirlwind at computer majong. 😉 never played with a table set. I’m good at poker, hearts and spades. I can get through a bridge game without embarrassing myself too badly but now I definitely want to try pinochle.
My Grandpa taught us Casino but for the life of me can’t remember anything about it. I like cribbage. I like pinochle. But I am a tournament bridge player. I have loved that game since I was 18 years old.
Duplicate Bridge is the best card game ever. Before I left California for good, my wife and I used to go to the major tournaments. I was always amazed at how many people would show up to play. By luck of the draw you could end up playing a few hands against the best players in the world which we did once. I always thought that made Bridge unique. One could not just go play golf with Tiger Woods.
“Pinochle is a great card game. Euchre is too simple and Bridge is too complex. Pinochle is a good middle ground where you have to think a little bit, but not too much. I want to relax and have fun when I play cards.”
After Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners at my grandparents home, there were two bridge tables set up and one Pinochle
table. My mother, her 3 sisters and the male twin of one sister played serious bridge. The GK’s were not invited to play at their table, until we were in college.
An older female cousin, who was like a older sister to our mothers, had her husband drive about 100 miles down and back. So she could play cut throat bridge with her younger female cousins and the one male cousin. We found out later that they played for a penny a point, serious bridge then and now. My grand dad died in 1957, and our grandmother said no bridge just talking at the family gatherings.
Years, later the 4 sisters and their cousin often got together in a centrally located home and played serious bridge. All were retired and basically widows. Those sessions often lasted 2 days+ with only bathroom breaks, food snacks and a few hours sleep.
During one of these marathon sessions, one aunt was sick and a male cousin, a college grad and maybe the smartest of all of the cousins was invited to play bridge with the other 3 sisters. After about 3 hours, he asked them if they ever took a pee break and stood up. They told him no and gave him 5 minutes for his needs.
He still jokes about their strong bladders and bridge playing stamina.
Single deck 4 players
I think you’ll love it
Seems to me the folks I’ve encountered here in SoCal, don’t know how to play cribbage. The people I have come across that do play are from the north east states. They’ve told me that everyone where they come from know how to play cribbage, and love it very much. I think it’s because they have to do something when they’re snowed in so it became very widespread to know how to play.
My friend who was from Cleveland taught me to play back in the 90s. It’s a great card game.
Sounds like canasta which I really like. I shock myself by realizing I haven’t played in 40 years.
Canasta was the big game in our house in the ‘50s and early ‘60s
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