Ken Hutton 
Social card games [EPUB ebook] 

• Preface


• Introduction


• Shuffling the pack


• Playing in turn


• Snap (2-10 players)


• Packs, packets and piles


• Capture games


• Slapjack (2-10 players)


• Ranks and suits


• Beggar thy neighbour (2-10 players)


• Snip snap snorem (2-10 players)


• High cockalorum (2-10 players)


• Hands, pitches, rounds and matches


• Spoons (2-13 players)


• Dealing the cards


• Squiffy dancer (2-12 players)


• Fishing games


• Bundles (2-4 players)


• Order of suits


• Cuckoo (2-12 players, or more)


• Cheat (2-6 players)


• Drawing from the stock


• Melding runs and sets


• The rummy family


• Conquian (2 players)


• Go fish (3-6 players)


• Happy families (3-6 players)


• Open, blind and hole cards


• Match points


• Thirty one bones (1-5 players, or more)


• Trick taking games


• Trumps


• Deciders and rubbers


• Seven card whist (2-7 players)


• Brag melds


• Stop the bus (2-8 players)


• Knockout whist (3-7 players)


• Keeping score


• Basic rummy (2-6 players, 3-4 best)


• Block rummy (2-6 players)


• Honours and penalties


• Special cards


• Shoot the moon (3-10 players, or more)


• Never-ending space race


• Fixed partnerships


• Partnership whist (4 players in fixed partnerships)


• Seven rummy (2-5 players, 3 best)


• Zero sum game


• Gambling


• Laugh and lie down (3-6 players)


• Trick brag (3 players)


• Cribbage board


• Tally sheet


• Cribbage (2-4 players)


• Fishing for Tens (2-4 players)


• Contracts


• Oh hell (3-7 players)


• Blind don (2 players)


• Leagues


• Hotfoot league (4 players to mix up a fixed partnership game)


• Outsider league (5 players to mix up a fixed partnership game; 3, 5 or 7 players in 2 player pitches)


• Clockwise league (4 or 6 players in 2 player pitches)


• Seat-swap league (4 players in 2 player pitches)


• Rotating team league (Any number of players in 2 teams playing 2 player pitches)


• Winner(s) stay on (Slightly more players than would normally play a game)


• Loser(s) stay on (Slightly more players than would normally play a game)


• Sum-run-set (2-5 players)


• Gin rummy (2 players)


• Widow


• Quinto (4 players in fixed partnerships)


• Duo’s compendium (2 players)


• League play (3-7 players)


• Two pair’s compendium (4 players in fixed partnerships)


• Disloyalty compendium (4-5 players in varying partnerships)


• Shedding games


• Pinhead (2-12 players)


• Burden compendium (3-5 players)


• Rhapsody (2-12 players, or more)


• Never-ending rhapsody (2-12 seats, players come and go)


• Poker melds


• Wild cards


• Liar poker (2-8 players, or more)


• Compendium in the woods (2-8 players)


• Own trumps (2-4, 4 best)


• Panjpar (2 players)


• Liverpool rummy (3-5 players)


• Temporary alliances


• Plantagenet (5 players with temporary alliances)


• Auctions


• Bigwig (3 players with temporary alliances)


• Solo whist (4 players with temporary alliances)


• Big two (4 players)


• Trump ranks


• Player rank


• Contesting twenty (4 players in fixed partnerships)


• Tractors and set flushes


• Big three (3-4 players, 3 best)


• Looking for friends (5-12 players with temporary alliances)

Ken Hutton was born and raised in the beautiful chalk downlands of Dorset in the south of England by his northern parents. He has spent time living and studying in Manchester and Berlin, which despite the benefits of city life convinced him that Dorset is where he feels most at home. Social card games is his first book.As a child he spent a lot of time exploring the countryside with his friends, but on rainy days or during breaks at school they would often pass the time playing card games. He still plays cards with some of the same old friends, as well as with family, young and old, and with passing acquaintances, at home and abroad. In Social card games he has distilled the hundreds of games he has experienced to forty-two of the best for social play. You can find out more at kenhutton.uk.