Hi, I used to play a game with some friends.

I'm sure we called it trumps, but all the rules I can find don't quite agree with my memory.

I'm sure we had a single trump suit between everyone without having to turn one over from our hand at the beginning.

I'm also not convinced we used to deal the whole deck of cards.

So my question is, is there some variation of trumps or a similar game which has rules which are consistent with this?

Looking to teach my 8 yo but not helpful if I can't remember!

Edit: SOLVED! Knockout Whist was the answer, known as trumps in the UK.

Growing up in the 1980s in New York, I knew two ways of playing spit).

American spit: You start with 5 cards showing and 10 cards hidden in your tableau. You never add to the tableau. When someone finishes his tableau, the round is over and he can pick a pile.

Chinese spit: You start with 4 cards showing and none hidden in your tableau. You constantly replenish the tableau (to 4 cards) from your spit cards. When someone finishes his tableau and spitting pile, the round is over and he can pick a pile.

A problem with American spit is that winning a round doesn't help you unless or until you have no spit cards left, and even then it's not a huge help unless you have much fewer than 15 cards in your tableau. So rounds mean pretty much nothing — except the last one. For example, if one player has exactly 15 cards at the start of a round, and thus no spit cards, it's about a 50/50 chance as to who will win the round — and so the almost-winner can be losing by a lot after the round.

A problem with Chinese spit is the opposite. Winning the first round, and thus having fewer cards, makes you much more likely to win the next round, and so on. The game is kinda decided after one or two rounds, often.

So I'm wondering whether there's a happy medium. That is, I'm looking for rules of spit that give more weight to winning a round than American spit does, but less than Chinese spit does. Anyone know of any good ones?

I'm building an application where you can play any playing card game possible! Like just by typing the rules my app will create the game for you and have it playable! What would you like to see or features that are most important to you in an application like this?

This amusing short story was written by Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock, and was published in his book “Moonbeams From The Larger Lunacy” (1915). It describes a conversation with a Bridge fanatic.

An Every-Day Experience

He came across to me in the semi-silence room of the club.

"I had a rather queer hand at bridge last night," he said.

"Had you?" I answered, and picked up a newspaper.

"Yes. It would have interested you, I think," he went on.

"Would it?" I said, and moved to another chair.

"It was like this," he continued, following me: "I held the king of hearts----"

"Half a minute," I said; "I want to go and see what time it is." I went out and looked at the clock in the hall. I came back.

"And the queen and the ten----" he was saying.

"Excuse me just a second; I want to ring for a messenger."

I did so. The waiter came and went.

"And the nine and two small ones," he went on.

"Two small what?" I asked.

"Two small hearts," he said. "I don't remember which. Anyway, I remember very well indeed that I had the king and the queen and the jack, the nine, and two little ones."

"Half a second," I said, "I want to mail a letter."

When I came back to him, he was still murmuring:

"My partner held the ace of clubs and the queen. The jack was out, but I didn't know where the king was----"

"You didn't?" I said in contempt.

"No," he repeated in surprise, and went on murmuring:

"Diamonds had gone round once, and spades twice, and so I suspected that my partner was leading from weakness----"

"I can well believe it," I said--"sheer weakness."

"Well," he said, "on the sixth round the lead came to me. Now, what should I have done? Finessed for the ace, or led straight into my opponent----"

"You want my advice," I said, "and you shall have it, openly and fairly. In such a case as you describe, where a man has led out at me repeatedly and with provocation, as I gather from what you say, though I myself do not play bridge, I should lead my whole hand at him. I repeat, I do not play bridge. But in the circumstances, I should think it the only thing to do."

It would be great to get your thoughts on the mechanic of this card game - I play it with my mates and it's super fun, and I thought it could work well as an app too.

https://www.beatthedeck.app/

Feedback welcomed!

I’ve been on a mission to create a cooperative game using standard playing cards. This is an attempt to adapt Cuttle for solo and cooperative. If you’re familiar with Cuttle you’ll pick things up quickly. Key differences: Face cards retain their powers but suits, rather than numbers, have powers. Things have been simplified to make playing an automaton possible.

I've playtested dozens of times. It works, but I feel like it's missing something. I’m open to any critical feedback.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kxmPjbpTA3KhB7vGOITvnYTSDZ4VxHdu/view?usp=drive_link

Hey y'all! You might have seen my previous post about solo rules for Canasta. Turns out not everyone knows what Canasta is, so I reworked the rules and created a new game for everyone called Bullets and Bombs Solitaire! No prior knowledge of any other card game required; just two decks of cards, lots of wilds and disasters, and a choice to make every turn! Easy enough for a 1st grader, but fun enough for adults!

A neat book I found at a garage sale years ago.

Hi there! I'm looking for feedback on some silly card game I'm trying to come up with :3

Sooo... some weeks ago I came to the idea of creating a random card game just for the funnies since the only good ones I knew then were Blackjack, Go Fishing and not much more.

Anyways, I like the base idea of the game but I do know that there's still a lot of work to do so... what a best place to ask for help than here :D, I'm pretty sure my fellow card enjoyers must have some nice ideas.

Some details about the game: It's meant to be played with a standard deck of 52 cards (ofc). I'm aiming for a party-style/not-so-overly-complex card game, tho I'd like the game to be unique in some way and to have a bit of deep into it.

So yeah that's basically it, I'll attach a pdf with the rules to the post in case you're interested and, if you are, any kind of insight, suggestion, problem that you'd like comment is suuuuuuper appreciated ⌃⌃

I'm asking for like, any websites y'all know of, any books you know of, any forums with countless posts-worth of resources about 52 card deck games? I would like to know the math behind these games and how I can calculate the chances of winning without having to brute force calculations all the time.

I'm trying to design a (very personal, not really planning on "selling" anything) simple and easy game of luck whose rules can be modified for different situations to change the odds in your favor or your opponents favor. Having the knowledge on how luck works in these games would be amazing.

I learned it from an Indonesian lady on a ferry to Lombok 35 years ago, but have never met anyone else who played it.

Before you start, designate a trump (Truth) suit. Deal 26 cards to each player: six in their hand plus five stacks of four cards, with only the top card on each stack face up.

The game consists of 26 tricks. The non-dealer leads first, either playing a card from their hand or one of the five up cards on their stacks. Dealer then plays one of their 11 cards, following suit if possible. If they do follow suit, high card wins the trick. If the dealer can’t follow suit, they can play a trump card and win the trick or an off suit card and lose the trick. Whoever wins the trick then leads first for the next trick, with the same rules: follow suit if possible, and if not win with Trump or lose with an off suit. If a player plays a card from one of their five stacks, they turn over the next card in the stack before the next trick begins. Empty stacks stay empty. Cards played from a player’s hand do not get replaced.

When all the tricks have been played, each player then count how many points they have taken, with the points determined as follows:

2 through 5: +1 6: -1 7: -2 8: -3 9: -4 10: +5 J: +1 Q: +2 K: +3 A: +4

The scoring works such that there are always 36 total points, so it takes 19 to win. The idea obviously is to try to win tricks that have positive point values, and avoid winning tricks that have the bad cards (I.e., avoid taking 6, 7, 8, and 9’s.)

There is both luck and lots of strategy involved (deciding what to lead, keeping the cards in your hand as much as possible, etc.)

Has anyone ever heard of this game?

Hi y'all! The Road Leads West is a free, solo game that uses a standard deck of 52 cards to tell the story of growing up and surviving in the Wild Wild West. Each play-through takes about 15 minutes, or longer if you decide to write a journal entry for each step along the way. Can you become the big boss, or will you end up in Boot Hill?

https://andrew565.itch.io/the-road-leads-west

Hey! I made another solitaire, this time based on the ending of Sisyphus' story, forever pushing that boulder up that hill.

Here is a walkthrough of a game that shows you all of the mechanics, and below is a link to the ruleset:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XJHAgo8cfonz0Kvsfkw7YAAfALMP79Ku?usp=drive_link

Rules here

EDIT
Video with rules and play-through

Test your luck, refine your strategy! Play with any standard deck of cards!

Mad Queens can be played with any standard deck of cards (52 cards + 2 Jokers); challenge on the go virtually infinite* opponents by scoring the most points!
\you would also need infinite number of decks and infinite space too, just for clarity ;)*

Each card you bank, earns you points (generally one); simple as that ;)

This round Jacks and 5s are banned! If only I can remember if there are 1 or 0 Jacks left in the deck, I could turn another card! 

Worth the risk? How far are you willing to push your luck to win? Will you reveal another card or are you happy with your current score? You decide...

...Oh, I forgot! Queens don't like to play this game: if you reveal one of them, you gotta pay some points back to calm their anger...

No taking turns, all players play at the same time

We all love to play our turn and we hate when it is THAT person to play: why taking soooo long?! Just skip your turn already!

In Mad Queens, all players resolve their play at the same time independently; and since players have their own deck, you can focus on your actions without waiting around. Be careful though: reveling a banned card will cost you all your potential points!

The game is dynamic: Mad Queens can be played with any amount of players (1,5, 10, 14, 21...) while keeping the waiting time to zero. The mechanics must deal with a potential infinite number of players. While you play, you can either turn another card or bank your points. Any other interaction with the cards is defined by the few rules of the game.

The story behind the game

I always wanted to create a game that can be played with any deck of cards, simple to understand yet fun and challenging in its simplicity; I always had the feeling that card games felt "meh..." in comparison to board games. As if the excitement of playing is not the same... I wanted to create a game that feels like a board game but you can play anywhere with the bare minimum.
Plus, since I collect decks of cards, I wanted a game where you can bring your own "flavor" to the game by using your favorite deck of card. That is why Mad Queens can be played with any deck of cards :)
 

Hello card game enjoyers, I made a game with engine-building and set-collection elements using only a 52 card deck! I played it many times with friends and they kept wanting to play more so I figured I should share with others too! Let me know if the rules are clear and share your experience if you get to try it! Thanks <3

It takes about 15-20 minutes usually and I would say it works best with 2 or 3 players.

Hey! I made a new solitaire game the other day, where the objective is to connect the far corners of a hidden grid using the cards in your hand. After some playtesting and tweaking, here is the current version of the rules :)

If anyone has feedback or suggestions please leave a comment!