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Abstraction – 2 Players with a Deck of Cards.
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I recommend getting a show off deck of...
I sometimes wonder why I pay out for designer board games when I could just be playing with a deck of cards. No really. I appreciate card games cannot tell stories, and some mechanics like area control, or resource engine building you will struggle to get out 4 suits of numbers, but for anything involving set collection or winning quick rounds give me the cards.
Particularly when it comes to designer card games, I like Lost Cities, Red7, Lords of Scotland etc, but I think the games below are as good, perhaps better.
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My brother and I used to play klaberjass when we weren't playing cribbage. It's kinda sorta pinochle flavored.
I'd also recommend springing for a paperback Hoyle's. Maybe buy two, and throw one in your bugout bag if you already have an emergency deck of cards. "The world's coming to an end. Let's learn how to play three-handed pinochle!"

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Hard to ignore that a deck of cards in your back pocket makes card games about 10000% more accessible to most of the world compared to a box of cardboard and meeples and plastic minis as well.
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Several years ago, I bought the full Badger deck. Ten suits of cards ranging from 0 to 20, plus 11 face cards per suit. So there are normal cards like the 10 of diamonds and exotic cards like the monster of moons or the 15 of flowers. Some day, I would like to figure out a way to use that full 320 card deck in a conventional-style card game. I mean, I suppose you could just play poker with the Badger deck, but all the probabilities would be out of whack, and certain hands should gain or lose value relative to play with a normal deck of 52.
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quozl wrote: Thanks for the recommendations! BTW, which decks are those in the pictures? They look great!
www.jocu.cards/?v=79cba1185463
www.riffleshuffle.com/collections/playin...hur-carmine-cavalier
The prices are slightly criminal, but if you use them a lot they justify it
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RobertB wrote: I recommend cribbage. The rules are nuts, in a good way. Nothing else is quite like it - it's not trick taking, it doesn't exactly have melds, and it isn't rummy.
My brother and I used to play klaberjass when we weren't playing cribbage. It's kinda sorta pinochle flavored.
I'd also recommend springing for a paperback Hoyle's. Maybe buy two, and throw one in your bugout bag if you already have an emergency deck of cards. "The world's coming to an end. Let's learn how to play three-handed pinochle!"
I've been playing Klaber for the past week, it might have made this list had i not written it a few weeks ago. Also been looking at Jo-Jotte. I've been using David Parlett's Penguin book but you can get an Ebook Hoyle here; www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53881 . Its an old one, but it has most of the common all fours family in it.
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www.jocu.cards/product/the-green-man-spring?v=7516fd43adaa
A moment's Googling revealed this custom Beowulf themed deck:
kingswildproject.com/collections/beowulf/products/beowulf
I wish all game art was this good:
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