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NATIONAL CARD PLAYING DAY – December 28
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Posted on 12/28/2016, 10:39:14 PM by heterosupremacist

Card games spread around the world in a variety of shapes and styles. From the elaborate Mamluk designs of Egypt to the appearance of the first playing cards during the Early Renaissance in Europe, the decks were divided into four suits of coins, cups, swords and sticks or batons.

It is from these four suits that today’s modern decks of playing cards developed. Theories range how the suits converted to hearts, spades, diamonds and clubs. One theory suggests the suits represent the different classes of the era – clergy, aristocracy, military and peasantry.

In India, the ten suited card game of Ganjifa became popular during the Moghul period. Traditionally, artists hand paint a stunning scene on each of the 120 cards in the deck.

A standard pack of cards may be used for playing a variety of card games, with varying elements of skill and chance, some of which are played for money. Some of the top card games include Spades, Poker, Solitaire, Spite and Malice, Hearts, Spoons, Gin Rummy, Ridge, Black Jack and Texas Hold’em. Of course, there are thousands of card games, some of which are regional favorites.


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National Card Playing Day is observed annually across In the 9th century, the Chinese began developing games using money and other paper objects. These early playing cards bear no resemblance to the sturdier European playing cards that developed a few centuries later.
1 posted on 12/28/2016, 10:39:14 PM by heterosupremacist
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To: heterosupremacist

Well played.


2 posted on 12/28/2016, 10:40:04 PM by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN

Deal me in.


3 posted on 12/28/2016, 10:45:02 PM by Responsibility2nd
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To: heterosupremacist
Oh my! So many cards for me to choose. Which one to play? Which one?

The Race Card? The Woman Card? The Homophobe Card? The Snowflakaphobe Card?

4 posted on 12/28/2016, 10:47:42 PM by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC (Folks ask about my politics. I say: I dont belong to any organized political party. I'm a Republican)
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To: heterosupremacist

Card games are, in my opinion, a form of folk art. Localities would develop their own games, without regard to ‘official’ rules, or governing bodies. The local card game, with its own unique rules was one way of showing that you were one of ‘us’.


5 posted on 12/28/2016, 10:48:08 PM by fhayek
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Card games are, in my opinion, a form of folk art. Localities would develop their own games, without regard to ‘official’ rules, or governing bodies.

I was shocked to find that Hoyle doesn't know the "real" way to play Pinochle.

The New Haven/East Haven version is what I grew up with. My game of choice now is Hearts.
6 posted on 12/28/2016, 11:15:16 PM by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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LOL - was just about to post that I learned my grandmother’s version of Pinochle, which she learned in Johnstown PA. I know it’s not how most people play, even there I suppose. I was well into my 20s before I realized there were other ways to play.


7 posted on 12/28/2016, 11:21:44 PM by workerbee (America finally has an American president again.)
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To: heterosupremacist

My personal favorite is a real man’s game:

Fizbin.


8 posted on 12/28/2016, 11:26:49 PM by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: heterosupremacist

I play a few hands of Cribbage every day on my tablet.

It keeps my mind sharpish.


9 posted on 12/28/2016, 11:30:02 PM by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: heterosupremacist

I gotta say...I prefer the National “eat something outrageously decadent” days.

You are responsible for the week of calzone cravings I had this year. So...thanks! :)


10 posted on 12/28/2016, 11:33:58 PM by karatemom
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To: Dr. Sivana

Yup. Euchre was something of an obsession where I grew up in Western New York. The rules they played did not exactly comport to the ‘rules of Hoyle’. Not that anyone cared.


11 posted on 12/28/2016, 11:44:04 PM by fhayek
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To: heterosupremacist

There are thousands of card games? I thought it was only Texas Freaking Hold’em any more, or at least that’s what it seems like.


12 posted on 12/28/2016, 11:46:44 PM by HartleyMBaldwin
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