You're Playing Cards Wrong!

[Merkuri]

Every play dominoes? I swear there are as many ways to play dominoes as there are people who play. The set I bought came with like six sets of rules, and none of them matched the way I learned how to play.

 

[Roadkill101]

It's been my experience that people tend to house rule a lot with Rummy (sp?) and Gin Rummy.

 

[Glyfair]

I wonder if players of Contract Bridge complain that the "every player for himself" style of Hearts is too adversarial, and suggest that those who play Hearts must have had a history of bad partners.

Between games, not so much. However, there is huge friction within bridge between users of different bidding styles. The users of traditional bidding styles tend to dislike those who use highly artificial bidding systems. They also tend to look down on those who use purely natural bidding styles.

 

[Huw]

Hearts? Black Mariah is the only true way of dumping on your mates. Hearts is far too gentle.

(ICYDNK, Black Mariah is almost identical to hearts, but you always pass to the left - so you really get to know the person to the right over a series of games, and it scales well between 3 and 7 players. There are also no restrictions on opening. Leading 2 of hearts is perfectly acceptable.)

 

[Glyfair]

Seriously I love Hearts as much as 500 (an Aussie game similar to Bridge), they're just different fun is all.

500 has a lot more in common with Spades than Bridge (at least in the version of 500 I was taught years ago).

 

[Psion]

Pretty much everyone plays Monopoly according to house rules, even if they don't think that they do.

When my wife put money on the free parking space in Monopoly, I tell her "That's not RAW, but it would make an interesting house rule!"

 

[Umbran]

I wonder if people who play different card games accuse each other of having badwrongfun.

I've seen it more among folks who are playing variations of the same game - there are more poker variants than you can shake a stick at. And the folks who I know that play for fun and tactics look at the variant most played in casinos these days ("Texas hold-em") with a level of disdain rpg players would normally reserve for FATAL.

 

[Nifft]

If all of those games (bridge, hearts, poker) were simply called "cards", I think we'd argue even more than we do about D&D.

D&D has many sub-games, and all of them can be fun -- to different degrees, for different people.

Cheers, -- N

 

[werk]

While teaching another couple how to play 'rummy' my wife and I realized there are a few differences in how we thought the game was played. (runs around the ace, picking up and holding the top discard, and having a discard when you go out.)


I don't know much about hearts or bridge, but I'd think it's a fairly universal rule...as the complexity of the ruleset increases, so would interpretations of various features.

(and of course, anyone who plays it different is wrong )

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

I wonder if people who play different card games accuse each other of having badwrongfun.

I think it does happen, but for the most part it hasn't been noticed because it tends to happen privately, in person, rather than on the internet. Fortunately, Gleemax is going to become the world dominant site for all gaming, so players of Contract Bridge, Hearts, Spades, Gin Rummy, Go Fish and other card games will all have a single place on the internet to go and publicly accuse each other of having badwrongfun.