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Do people still play cards like they used to??
dreher
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I can remember that in the fifties every house seemed to have a card table or two. I remember my parents having other couples over to play cards. I remember bridge clubs and other card games.
In the early 70s my first wife and I played cards almost every weekend with another couple, almost always Hearts.
I haven't played cards in years. So is card playing no longer a thing or is it just me??
I can see where the ones under 30 wouldn't play cards unless they could play cards on their phones!😁
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It has evolved into something different as far as I have seen. Lots of folks get together and play Texas Hold em.....
I still play Sheepshead regularly.
Like a lot of other things it’s been replaced by the cellphone. I can remember my mom and dad and the neighbors playing pitch. When working on the railroad when we got to the other end of the trip seems like there was always a pitch game going on.
No they don't. Being in the Navy and having no cell phones, internet and being out to sea no TV of any kind we used to play cards when we had the time.
We used to play more, but stopped because everyone was tired of doing the same thing every weekend. Recently we've started back up with some younger people that are friends of ours. They have a 2 year old and wanted to be able to get out and do things with the toddler in tow. I have a huge basket of toys....he would bring us trucks and dinosaurs from the basket....went from person to person making us all hold him so he could play cards too. We have fun. We're going to teach them Rook next time.
My Mom and Dad used to play often with his aunt and uncle. I think they played canasta. It was something that used two decks of cards, I remember. They sipped highballs while they played. That was in the 1950s.
I know that bridge was or is popular with a lot of people; there are still newspaper columns about all the finer points of playing it.
Cards never grabbed my attention.
I remember my folks and 3 or 4 more couples got together weekly to play pinochle but then there were no television I think that was one reason people got together.
My wife and I regularly play Rummy, Yahtzee, and Scrabble. We have a friendly competition going on, and a notebook keeping a record of wins and losses. We are about even (I try to keep it that way😏).
We all regularly play cards. Especially Pinochle.
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My wife and I play gin rummy sometimes. if we're going out to get a drink and some food, we'll probably sit at the bar, play cards, and have an evening.
My in-laws play bridge sometimes. I'd like to learn how to play just so we could all play bridge after I've destroyed everyone in Scrabble. 😂
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we used to go to an uncle and aunts house where my grampa stayed with them every weekend and the older folks allways played ROOK till the wee hours of the morning, I still have a set of cards but doubt anyone else I know, even knows how to play.........
When I get together with my brothers, we play Euchre.
My family used to get together regularly to play spades and then Hold 'em........as we have all gotten older and lost some members, that doesn't happen now.
My mom still plays bridge every week though with her groups.
Uno is a great card game when the +2 and +4 cards are also drinking cards. Bottoms up!!!!
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As a very young kid I learned to play cards
Every weekend we had a house full of family and neighbors ppl saying poker start Friday evening until early Saturday morning then back at it Saturday night until early Sunday morning 5 card draw or stud was the game
Most all of them smoked so our place was like a fog bank not counting gallons of coffee
I remember up to nine people would be sitting on the floor or crowded around the kitchen table
We only lived in a three room apartment so it was wall to wall people the adults and their kids all packed in
When was about 10 or 12 igot to join in for a young kid to win was like wining the lottery for me
Thru the week in the winter the neighbor kids and us would play rummy
The card games continued for many years I will guess I was inmy mid 20's before it just faded out
It progressed from a simple nickle dime game to some trying to show off and buy the pots by betting 10 or twenty dollars then 50 dollars it just got out of control and I am sure some cousins started cheating shorting the pot during a bet
Too bad it came to that for many years it was just a fun way to spend the winter nights
So many stories and memories
Funny but it was the best way to get the family together lol
Side note my dad loved to play cards when he lived in Tennessee theywould go into the woods and hide out to play
The sheriff would catch them sometimes
Once my dad was at the game But had went broke the sheriff gave every one a ticket my dad Saif I was not even playing you saw that
They Gave him s ticket and 10 dollar fine for 'eyeballing"the game my mom had the ticket not sure what ever became of it
I am pretty sure my early card playing help teach me counting and math
About the only cards I play are the ones that involve a Cribbage board and my wife. Never liked poker or other games.
Cribbage! I haven't played that in years. Great game
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Used to be a holdem king around here. Won several tournaments, locally and one in New Orleans. Now we can't get a game together as a lot have passed and it not hot anymore. Illinois won't let you play for real money now, so I just won 25 million! on Pokerstars .com. Same amount of money mods get in real cash.
Back in the 40's and early 50's my mom belonged to a bridge club. They would alternate who was the hostess. When I moved to Indy in '62 I remember reading in the Star paper of guys getting busted at home for playing poker for money. I don't know the details of the games but it must have been high limit games not just quarter ante games.
Back in the late 1970's my new wife's mom and dad would have friends over.....every Friday night to play dominoes.
These days......the wife has her older friends over on some Fridays to play cards. I have absolutely NO idea what card games these hen party participants play.
I make myself scarce......😨😎
Only at the 'old folks home', the senior citizens center, or the geezers' coffee club.
Everyone else has their phone in their face and disregard everything else.
Euchre was our card game in the 60s and 70s. Good behavior and moderate drinking was the norm in Western Wisconsin.
Anyone know if Euchre originated here in Wisc?
Bob or Tom????????
I used to play a lot when I was a kid and there wasn't anything else to do. It's probably been about 50 years since my last game.
Joe
We used to get together with 3 other couples and play pinochle every couple of weeks. People got divorced or moved and we now have only one couple who we get together with every couple of months.
My wife and I still play rummy, spades, cribbage and backgammon, but we miss the larger get togethers.
Brad Steele
I like to play rummy, but I have no one to play with.
My parents used to play, too, back when I was little. I remember going to their friends' house and playing with toys while they played cards. Pinochle or euchre?
I only ever learned how to play rummy. My kids and I played a lot when they were little. Always had a deck of cards in the console to play while waiting for mom in the store.
My wife and I used to play Pinochle with her mom and dad when they were alive. Haven't played it since but it was a game I enjoyed and have to admit that it made me a much better euchre player!
I remember ma and her sister and her husband and JR playing Pinochle for hours in to the wee hours. They were serious, too like lives were at stake. I never learned since it was so serious for so little money.
When the kids were younger we use to play Uno
Dominos!
I am still trying to learn “ Go Fish”.
kinda suprised no other ROOK players here........
I would always get "The Old Maid" 😲
There is a group from where I use to work I joined in a few times
Once a month they eould meet up at some ones house asthey took turns where to play
They still get together
But they played a lot of wild rules based on basic games
Like red queens were wild cards or black jacks were wild if you drew the ace of spades you automatically lost so many varations dealer wouldcall the game
Made it interesting most of the time
A lot of small towns in SD come to a dead stop for the afternoon pinochle games in the town cafe.
I miss playing spades. When I was in the Army we had tournaments and took it pretty seriously.
All my kids are grown up, so UNO and the like went by the wayside.
Still get into a friendly poker (Hold 'em, Baseball, Stud) game with friends on a regular basis.
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Yea, I still play cards like I used to. I seem to always lose. Ha...
When my wife and I got married, 1979 her family and us would play uno ? On the weekends during the winter
It was a card game that was popular at the time may still be around? , but honestly, I do not remember much about how the game was played only it brought the family together and passed time