What ya playin'...cards, board games, etc.

[ValJamesRules]

Just want to see if anyone still gets together to play games? Cards, board games, role playing etc.

I get together with friends, about once a week, to play Settlers of Catan, or some multi-player card games like Flux or Bang!

I'm sure there will be plenty of poker players here.

Gin Rummy is a fave, as well as Euchre (not very well known outside of western NY).

What do you guys play to pass the time/for money?

[JKidd]

Lots of card games played at the hunting cabin.... mix in the drinking, and games degrade from fun to money games in a matter of an hour or so.

The lady friend and I play cribbage at the end of the night, normally just for fun. We keep a white board on the fridge that has the tally on who's up and down in the series.... I'm up by 2 right now.

We've got drinking games of course... the game Beer, a game you can buy at Spenders or online, is a fun card game.

Bull**** is probably our favorite card game to play though, when drunk, of course.

[blades29]

Our family plays a game called "Crazy Queens".

I'm a big Scrabble, chess, and Risk fan. Although I almost always get my ass handed to me in Risk. Oh and Cards Against Humanity is pretty good too.

[skacore]

Pretty funny after 3 posts both of the games my friends and I play have been said.

Settlers of Catan is the only board game we'll play, and Cards Against Humanity is the only card game.

[Phila26Flyers]

One of my college roommates taught us a game his family calls 13. Simply because each of the four players has 13 cards. There might be another name for it. Everyone I've taught the game to thinks it's so confusing at first until we play a couple rounds, then they're hooked. I'll try to explain it as simply as I can.

• Cards are shuffled and dealt, 13 apiece.
• Cards are ranked in order, from lowest to highest, by number: 3-K, then Ace, and 2 is the HIGHEST; and by suit: Clubs, Spades, Hearts, Diamonds. Easy to remember because the club is the smallest symbol and diamonds are high in value.
• The goal is to get rid of all your cards. The game continues until only one person still has cards. The last person with cards loses the game.
• The game is based on starting a pattern, and beating that pattern as you go around the table with either a higher suit or number.
• Person with the 3 of clubs, the lowest ranked card in the game, starts.
• The pattern can be anything: you can lay down just the 3 of clubs, or a pair of 3s, or a 3 thru 9 7-card straight. It doesn't matter, as long as the 3 of clubs starts it.
• The next person has to beat the previous person's draw. If the game starts with the 3 of clubs, you can put down the 3 of spades, or a 6 of whatever, an Ace, etc. Then the next person has to beat that, and so on.
• If the pattern involves multiple cards, like a three card straight, only the end card has to beat the pattern. For instance, if the first person puts down 3, 4, 5 spades, you can put down 3, 4, 5 hearts. Obviously, a 9, 10, J straight beats it altogether.
• If you can't beat the pattern on the table, or want to save your cards, pass. Even the person who started the pattern has to pass if he can beat it. The "round" ends two ways:
1) Everyone passes, meaning the last person standing starts a new pattern of whatever he wants.
2) Some puts down a 2. The 2 is the bomb card. The bomb is used to stop the current pattern. You use it to stop patterns you can't beat. If someone put down three 7s and you can't beat that, put down a 2. The only way to beat the bomb is if anyone has a higher 2 they want to use, or a paired three-card straight (ex. 66, 77, 88). If someone can beat the bomb, they start the next pattern. If no one beats the bomb, the bomber starts.

It sounds like a lot to keep track of, but it really isn't. Not any more than any other game I've played anyway. People always give me the same looks I gave my roommate when he explained it to us, but everyone always ends up loving it. It gets pretty competitive and intense. It's a great party game too. Better than a game like Kings for instance, which is great but involves too many people so eventually half of them stop paying attention and the game takes FOREVER or stops being fun.

[NickDoh]

I'm a big fan of Cribbage. Straight skunkin' fools.

My family plays a really simple game called "31".

There's a few weird games my Dad's side of the family plays that I've never learned like Euchre (big in Michigan too assuming it's that team one with 4 players where you sit across from your teammate). Always figured it was spelled "youker" or something haha.

Edit: board games!

Scrabble is big in my family not that any of us are particularly good.

Yahtzee was a family staple growing up. Used to have it on my phone when I had a smart phone and played it while I pooped.

Then a group of friends back in California; we'd make anything a fun drunken game. Something like Apple to Apples was more obvious, but anything is fun with enough people and booze.

[blackngold]

Whenever me and my buddies want to get hammered in a fun way, we play the dice game. Not the dice that they play in the projects of Harlem, but a different kind of game. It might have another name, but the kid who taught it to us is from Holland and he just calls it the dice game.

Basically, everyone rolls 2 dice 3 times and the point is to get as high a number as possible. The only "good" low rolls are the 2 lowest possible: 21 and 31. Aside from that, you want to get as high a number as you can. Doubles are good as they give you triple-digit scores. For example, snake eyes are 100, two 2's are 200, etc.
The loser of each turn drinks 1/4 of a pint glass, unless someone else rolled a 21, in which case the loser starts with 1/2 the glass and adds 1/4 for each additional 21 rolled on the turn.

If you're playing in a group of 4 or 5, a 30 rack can be killed in about 20 minutes.

[ewen21]

Played this drinking/card game called "Up the River, Down the River" while skiing in Vermont years and years ago. As a matter of fact it was 1985 because I watched the Giants lose to the Bears in the playoffs-- the year BEFORE they won the SB-- on this trip. I can't possibly exaggerate the amount of beer and whiskey we drank in five days at this ski resort called Smuggler's Notch. I literally drank every waking hour, taking nips of brandy on the ski lift to boot. I got so whacked that I forgot to get off the lift and went down the mountain on the lift. That was embarrassing as hell AND cold as HELL. UP the River, Down the River was a HUGE instigator in that. Anyone ever play??

[antonio106]

Originally Posted by blades29

Our family plays a game called "Crazy Queens".

I'm a big Scrabble, chess, and Risk fan. Although I almost always get my ass handed to me in Risk. Oh and Cards Against Humanity is pretty good too.

Been trying to get a risk game going on here! Also part of the chess club at my school.

[NJDevils17]

Settlers of Catan rules. We played that a bunch last year.

Monopoly is also fun. I happen to enjoy watching my roommates fight over trades whenever someone gets a natural monopoly.

[theknuckler]

Originally Posted by JKidd

Lots of card games played at the hunting cabin.... mix in the drinking, and games degrade from fun to money games in a matter of an hour or so.

The lady friend and I play cribbage at the end of the night, normally just for fun. We keep a white board on the fridge that has the tally on who's up and down in the series.... I'm up by 2 right now.

We've got drinking games of course... the game Beer, a game you can buy at Spenders or online, is a fun card game.

Bull**** is probably our favorite card game to play though, when drunk, of course.

Damn I forgot all about that game! I'm getting that in the drinking fray today. Haven't played it in absolute years, crazy eh? I wanted to play some quarters but I cant remember how ahaa.

[BROKEN*ORBITAL]

I play online chess a lot.

As far as sitting down at a table and playing, I only ever play Dominoes. I love dominoes.

[theknuckler]

Originally Posted by BROKEN*ORBITAL

I play online chess a lot.

As far as sitting down at a table and playing, I only ever play Dominoes. I love dominoes.

played monopoly probably 2 or 3 months ago. Still fun, and drinkable.

[thruby]

i have a solitaire app on my phone. just played my 1,550th game. huge fan of solitaire.

and i also love Scrabble.

[chilly666]

Originally Posted by JKidd

Bull**** is probably our favorite card game to play though, when drunk, of course.

that and spoons is also a good drunk card game!!