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Discussion Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: souplizardd on January 13, 2026, 07:10:13 pm
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hello! this is my first post, I hope it is a worthy contribution to the WetFish ecosystem🫧
I am quite fond of card games, and I was recently reflecting on how I have learned basically all the card games I know through other people teaching me at different points in my life, and how sweet I think it is that one forms a beautiful little connection with those whom they teach/learn/practice card games (especially since it's a skill that is purely for fun and entertainment rather than having any sort of "productive"/instrumental value).
anyway I may make a more artistic perzine about it at some point, but I wanted to share all the card games I currently know and my preliminary reflections and ratings of them; PLEASE teach me others if you know any good ones :))
*🩷 = my favorites
- Go Fish (ofc) — learned from my mom as a kid; 5/10 middle-of-the-road, gets kinda boring
- Solitaire — learned on my own from my 2nd gen iPod nano; 8/10 for up to 30 minutes, but 5.5/10 after that
- Crazy Eights — also taught to me by my mom as a kid while simultaneously people-watching in New York City; 6/10 haven't played it since, but I remember liking it
- Bullshit — when I was in 9th grade, a bunch of seniors (who I'm now realizing were definitely all high if they weren't mormon) wanted to play while we were on break at marching band camp; 3/10 I'm really bad at lying
- President — learned from this kid, Aidan, in my 10th grade chemistry class who always wore specialty newsboy caps + collared shirts and worshipped the debate teacher; I think he also tried to teach my table group the game Mao, but it didn't catch on; 7/10 fun with a big group, 5/10 with a smaller group
🩷Nertz (also called Pounce/Puntz/Peanuts in different regions) — taught to me by my dad on St. Patrick's Day 2019; requires that every player have their own individually distinguishable deck of cards; 10/10 with the right players! cards will be bent, tables pounded, relationships placed in jeopardy, I never rarely lose
🩷Gin Rummy — learned from WikiHow and a YouTube video with an ex-partner last year; 9/10 it's been my go-to card game to teach people since then
- King's Corner — a friend in Boulder taught me on the crustiest dining room table I have ever seen last winter; 6/10 it's so nefarious that one person can win the whole game in the first round if they have a good hand
- War — taught to me by a 13-year old looking to get out of doing the stuff I was supposed to be mentoring him on; 4/10 kinda boring but fine
🩷Egyptian Rat Slap — a girl my bandmate was dating for a bit over the summer taught me on the asphalt outside D3, and I think we accidentally missed another band's whole set because the game went for so long :P ; 8/10 with the right people, it can get going fast
- Trash — a friend I went camping with taught me in exchange for me teaching her gin rummy; 6/10 for the first 10 minutes, 5/10 after that
- Pinochle — learned from one of my oldest friends when she got super into it over her winter break; the only game in this list that needs a specialty deck, my friend spent like $60 Frankensteining her own out of regular decks and refused to let the deck get dirty or bent because it was such an investment lol; 5/10 mostly because it's pretty complicated and I didn't get familiar with all the rules before my friend had to fly back across the country for school smh
- Speed — taught to me by another friend's exuberantly drunk coworker at a NYE party; didn't really like her all that much, but the game is very fun! 7/10
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Learned a new one at Christmas called Court. 3-5 players.
- The goal is to keep cards that score well; the theme is throwing a fancy party.
- Deal 12 - # of players cards to each person (3 players = 9, 4 players = 8, ...) for a starting hand
- Choose one card from your hand, place it face-down in front of you, wait for all players to do it.
- Reveal at once, then leave your face-up card in front of you visible so others can see it.
Face-cards ("celebrities" or "nobles") are kept in pairs; if you have an unpaired face-card, you must pair it with your next face-card
- Every player passes their hand to the player on their left.
- Choose a card, all players reveal simultaneously, keep, pass the rest, until all players are out of cards.
- Now score the cards you kept:
-- Facecards are couples: K-Q is a "marriage" worth 5 points, "Q-J" is an "affair" worth 4 points, "K-J" is an "intrigue" worth 3 points, and singletons are worth 0.
-- Aces are treasures: one Ace is "unique" worth 5 points, two aces is "rare" worth 3 points, three aces is "common" worth 1 point.
-- numbered cards are wealth: sum them by suit (ie 10S, 9H, 5S, 4S, "19 in spades, 9 in hearts"). Whoever has the most wealth in each suit gets 5 points, in cases of ties divide 5 rounding down (so 2,2 or 1,1,1 or 0,0,0,0)
Play more than one round. I dunno where to stop, maybe after a # of rounds or first to accumulate 100 points.
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Update: my brother came home with a book called Official Rules of Card Games printed in 1991. Just yall wait, I'm about to stay strapped with a deck of cards at all times now
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Update: my brother came home with a book called Official Rules of Card Games printed in 1991. Just yall wait, I'm about to stay strapped with a deck of cards at all times now
What kinda games are in the book?
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I've been playing "Shenzen Solitare," which is a Chinese-themed version of Spider Solitaire:
Deck of fourty cards: 27 ranked cards 1-9 in suits black characters, green bamboo and red dots, 12 cards without ranks in four "dragon" suits black, green and red, and 1 unranked "flower" card (think: Mahjong tiles). The object is to move cards from eight piles to seven sorted holding areas (three for dragons, one for the flower, and one for each ranked suit).
Deal the cards at random to eight piles of five, face-up so you can see all the cards in each pile (there should be small rank & suit markers in the corners).
* You can move ranked cards to another pile if the top card is one rank higher and a different suit.
* If the last card of a pile is moved, any card or stack can be moved to the place the pile was.
* You can move stacks of ranked cards as a stack if the entire stack is descending sequence and alternating suits.
* You can move any single card to one of the three holding areas for dragons, but not stacks. You can move single cards from these holding areas to a pile if they follow the first two rules
* Dragons can only be moved to empty piles; as they are not ranked they can't be put in a pile on top of other cards.
* If the flower is top top of a pile, move it promptly to the flower holding area.
* If all four dragons of the same suit are on tops of piles or in dragon holding areas, and there's an empty dragon holding area or one of the dragons is in the holding area, you may collect all four dragons into one pile in one dragon holding area; they cannot be moved from there after
* You can move the "1" ranked card to one of the three ranked holding areas. Any ranked cards at the tops of piles or in the dragon holding areas can be moved to the ranked card holding area if it is the same suit and one rank higher than the card(s) there.
I'm told every possible random starting position of 8x5 cards has a solution, but it's easy to get stuck as you use up the dragon holding areas with cards you can't move out. I've been told the same about Western Spider Solitaire (no dragons nor flower, four suits of 13 ranked cards, four holding areas), but that's difficult to believe.|
(yeah, screenshot is a video game, but it's playable as a real card game if I could make the cards or use Mahjong tiles)
(https://wiki.wetfish.net/upload/02b00b16-9404-20ca-f827-5ec6dea4403e.png)
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Update: my brother came home with a book called Official Rules of Card Games printed in 1991. Just yall wait, I'm about to stay strapped with a deck of cards at all times now
Does lotus count as a card game?
https://renegadegamestudios.com/lotus/?srsltid=AfmBOoqlBI5K411IAiQX4wwg3GklONg76gVqD3UhoXJKS1PmEoGUqzjA (https://renegadegamestudios.com/lotus/?srsltid=AfmBOoqlBI5K411IAiQX4wwg3GklONg76gVqD3UhoXJKS1PmEoGUqzjA)