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My wife and stepdaughter were playing various children's card games tonight. Old Maid wasn't one of them, surprisingly. Identify the card game from an excerpt from its Wikipedia article. All of these games can be played with a standard 52 card deck. (And, yes, putting any of these texts into new Wikipedia articles is considered cheating! )
A. If one player reaches the target (usually 61 or 121), the game ends immediately and that player wins. When the scores are level during a game, the players' pegs will be side by side, and it is thought that this gave rise to the phrase "level pegging". -
Cribbage
B. The game forbids its players from explaining the rules, and new players are often informed that "the only rule you may be told is this one". -
Mao
C. The player whose turn it is to play asks another player for his or her cards of a particular face value. For example, Alice may ask, "Bob, do you have any threes?" -
Go Fish
D. At this point, any and all players may attempt to slap the pile with the hand they used to place the card; whoever covers the stack with his or her hand first takes the pile, shuffles it, and adds it to the bottom of their stack. -
Slapjack
E. If one player takes all the penalty cards on one deal, that player's score remains unchanged while 26 penalty points are added to the scores of each of the other players. -
Hearts
F. Its major difference as compared to other Whist variants is that, instead of trump being decided by the highest bidder or at random, the ___ suit is always trumps, hence the name. -
Spades
G. Players discard by matching rank or suit with the top card of the discard pile, starting with the player left of the dealer. If a player is unable to match the rank or suit of the top card of the discard pile and does not have a ___, they draw cards from the stockpile until they get a playable card. -
Crazy Eights
H. Each player seeks the best five card poker hand from any combination of the seven cards of the five community cards and their own two hole cards. -
Texas Hold Em
I. Scum (or other names, commonly "a******","bum","homeless") - last place in the previous round. If scum is last place, the scum gets to go first to start the round. -
President
J. A turn consists of a player placing a specific number of face-down cards into the middle of the table, from their hand, and making a claim as to what those cards' rank is (e.g. "two sevens"). They are permitted to lie about the rank of these cards, and the claim may have to be a lie if the player has no cards of the required ranks. -
I Doubt It/BS
Three players answered Egyptian Rat Screw in place of Slapjack. The clue as written does not apply to Egyptian Rat Screw (a game I played many rounds of at Boy Scout camp), because in that particular game, the cards are not shuffled after being slapped and added to the deck of the successful slapper. On the plus side, I was happy to see Mao so widely known.
Hearts - 8 (sheep)
MarkBarrett, Rackme32, casketromance, classicroadster, merica, AmericanIdiot, 9021amyers, dinghammer
Go Fish - 6
Elendilpickle, psgola, Vintsanity, 1stslvlthinker, morbeedo, guessonguessonguess
Crazy Eights - 5
floridagator, CoachP, gamawire, clprez, xxaaaxx
Mao - 4
Saturnalia, clt013, sims, sillymoose
Cribbage - 3
threearruda, immaf, squarekara
I Doubt It - 3
Tybalteon, twelvefootboy, MattKnowles
Spades - 2
spell4yr, AFRET CMS
Slapjack - 1 (singleton!)
Woof
Texas Hold Em - 1 (singleton!)
Kirbstar
Unused - President
Incorrect - SenseiCAY (Egyptian Rat Screw), uncapitalized (Egyptian Rat Screw), badger fellow (Egyptian Rat Screw), jbeltz (euchre), Enormous Jeans (canasta)
Sheep Insurance:
The following players bought sheep insurance.
SenseiCAY (question 2)
CoachP (question 9)
Psgola (question 9)
Uncapitalized (question 4)
Immaf (question 7)
Clprez (question 11)
AmericanIdiot (question 7)
Vintsanity (question 9)
Sims (question 5)
Sillymoose (question 9)
Spell4yr (question 10)
Jbeltz (question 2)
Morbeedo (question 4)
Guessonguessonguess (question 11)
Three players insured a sheep. morbeedo and uncapitalized both insured Michael Jordan on question 4, and MJ received 2 points, which is the same as the cost of sheep insurance, which ends up being a wash. CoachP insured the massive sheep on WYSIWYG and ends up recovering 12 of the 14 points lost there. All other players listed have 2 points added.
Final scoring
6. xxaaaxx - 36
7. Commander Cody
daddy dewdrop
floridagator (all 37)
10. 9021amyers
Saturnalia
sillymoose
Woof (all 38)
14. gamawire - 39
15. econgator
Vintsanity (all 40)
17. threearruda - 41
18. AFRET CMS
twelvefootboy (all 42)
20. CoachP - 43
21. casketromance - 44
22. bev nar
morbeedo (all 45)
24. 1stlvlthinker
SenseiCAY (all 46)
26. immaf - 47
27. merica
Peachbox
Rackme32 (all 48)
30. Elendilpickle
guessonguessonguess (all 49)
32. MattKnowles - 51
33. badgerfellow - 53
34. clprez
35. AmericanIdiot
sims
Tybalteon
uncapitalized (all 55)
39. psgola - 56
40. spell4yr - 59
41. classicroadster - 65
42. jbeltz - 66
43. Enormous Jeans - 101
Our fifth place winner, with 35 points, is
MarkBarrett, who receives a cassette copy of Chumbawamba's 2000 album
WYSIWYG.
Our fourth place winner, with 34 points, is
clt013, who receives a copy of the DVD
How to Win at Egyptian Rat Screw, narrated by Johnny Gilbert.
Our three way tie for first place, all with 33 points, are
Dinghammer,
Kirbstar, and
squarekara, who will receive a 12 pack of Old Style if I happen to make it up to Chicago any time in the next five years.
Thanks for playing, everyone! Remember that tomorrow morning is the deadline for floridagator's TD 386.