What's The Best Card Game?

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My suggestion is that you reach out to a bridge club that is convenient to you and make contact with other bridge players in your area.

So how did you learn? Reading or playing?

Both. I learned initially from my family who needed a forth, so they taught me. I continued my learning at school when I hooked up with some classmates to form a bridge club.

In the club, we all played a lot, and at least once every week or two or three, we covered a new Goren chapter/topic and did our best to apply the new learnings as we played in the intervening days between "instructive" club meetings. As you might expect, we played practice games with "cheat sheets," sometimes even pages torn from Goren, on the card table, and we played competitive games without our them.

Playing bridge is like having sex. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.
-- Woody Allen (emphasis shifted)​

Unrelated reflective aside:

Turned out being a bridge club member was one of the most useful pursuits of my and my classmates' youth for, in a move that we thought was "cool beans," the teachers who participated in the club let us have full ownership of the instruction sessions. We all got exposure to leadership, collaboration, public speaking and a variety of other practical experiences that were good foundations for developing skills we had to adroitly exhibit later in high school and college.

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[Crixus]

What's the best (or your favorite) card game (using a standard deck of cards, of course)

Have you played it on line?


I have played mostly Spades, but, have dabbled in Bridge, which seems pretty interesting....

Texas hold’em.

 

[evenflow1969]

What's the best (or your favorite) card game (using a standard deck of cards, of course)

Have you played it on line?


I have played mostly Spades, but, have dabbled in Bridge, which seems pretty interesting....

Bridge is the most strategic, but nothing is more fun than seeing the face of the person you drop the queen on in hearts. This is all asuming no gambling is involved. Other wise it is poker

 

[JOSweetHeart]

What is Tonk?

God bless you always!!!

Holly

P.S. I voted "other" because my favorite game is like War, but better. I don't know the actual name of the game, but I love the game like War where having the King, Queen, Jack, and Ace cards give you an advantage and if you and your competitor lay down the same number or letter card one right after another, the first person to slap the pile is who gets every card that is in it.

I've not played it myself, but know people that have. Here is the Wikipedia summary:

Tonk, or tunk, is a matching card game, which combines features of knock rummy and conquian. Tonk is a relatively fast game that can be played during brief periods of time by varying numbers of players. It was first known to be played at Highland Park High School, Topeka, Kansas in the early 1970s

Thank you.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

 

[charwin95]

What's the best (or your favorite) card game (using a standard deck of cards, of course)

Have you played it on line?


I have played mostly Spades, but, have dabbled in Bridge, which seems pretty interesting....

I play Baccarat, Poker and Black Jack but 90% Black Jack (double deck only). I played at local Indian casino here in Southern California like Pala or Pechanga (largest in Southern Ca). I played so much this year that I’m getting a free cruise for next year.
Sometimes in Las Vegas about once a month or more unless I have my friends that comes along with me.

 

[irosie91]

Indian poker