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Screw Your Neighbour (other)
Screw your neighbour is the alternative name of several entirely different card games: * Ranter go round * Cuckoo (card game) * Crazy eights * Oh hell * Contract rummy * Sergeant major (card game) It should not be confused with another card game called beggar-my-neighbour Beggar-my-neighbour, also known as strip jack naked, beat your neighbour out of doors, or beat jack out of doors, or beat your neighbour, is a simple choice-free card game. It is somewhat similar in nature to the children's card game War (card ...
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Ranter Go Round
Ranter Go Round is a primitive, traditional, English gambling game and children's game using playing cards that also nowadays goes under the name of Chase the Ace. In America it is usually recorded in the literature as Ranter Go Round (rarely is it hyphenated), but is also sometimes called Screw Your Neighbor which, however, is an alternative name used for at least four other quite different card games. A similar game is known in most European countries as Cuckoo; it originated in 16th-century France and developed into the French game of Coucou. Ranter Go Round is related to the dedicated pack card or tile games of Gnav and Killekort. History Ranter Go Round is described as early as 1881. The game "is said to have been first played in Cornwall,"''Cassell's Book of Sports and Pastimes'' (1882), pp. 869–870. although its rules are almost identical to French Coucou ("Cuckoo") which itself goes back to the 15th century and there are other European games of the same family play ...
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Crazy Eights
Crazy Eights is a Card game#Shedding games, shedding-type card game for two to seven players and the best known American member of the Eights Group which also includes Pig (card game), Pig and Spoons (card game), Spoons. The object of the game is to be the first player to discard all of their cards. The game is similar to Switch (card game), Switch, Mau Mau (card game), Mau Mau or Whot!. Originally this was played primarily by children with the left over cards not used in Euchre. Now a standard 52-card deck is used when there are five or fewer players. When there are more than five players, two decks are shuffled together and all 104 cards are used. Origins The game first appeared as ''Eights'' in the 1930s, and the name ''Crazy Eights'' dates to the 1940s, derived from the United States military designation for discharge of mentally unstable soldiers, Section 8 (military), Section 8. It may have derived from the German game of Mau Mau (card game), Mau-Mau. There are many varia ...
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Oh Hell
Oh hell or contract whist is a trick-taking card game of British origin in which the object is to take exactly the number of tricks bid. It was first described by B. C. Westall around 1930 and originally called oh! well.Parlett (1996), p. 176. It was said to have been introduced into America via the New York clubs in 1931.Parlett (1991), p. 312. Phillips and Westall describe it as "one of the best round games".Phillips & Westall (1939), pp. 222–223. Name This English game was originally called oh! well, but is often known as contract whist in Britain and, less commonly, as nomination whist, while American sources call it oh pshaw or more frequently oh hell. David Parlett gives other names: blackout, bust, elevator and jungle bridge;Parlett (2008), pp. 85–86. while John McLeod adds blob, so called because the player's predicted bid is overwritten with a black blob if not achieved. Concept The game explores the idea of taking an exact number of tricks specified by a bid ...
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Contract Rummy
Contract rummy is a Rummy card game, based on gin rummy played by 3 to 8 players. It appeared in the United States during the Second World War._ (1940), ''Bendix Battleline'', Vol. 3., p. 6. Bendix Aviation Corp. The game is also known as Combination rummy, Deuces Wild Rummy and Joker rummy, and a proprietary version of the game called ''Phase 10'' was published in 1982. Play Basics Contract rummy is played with multiple decks of 54 standard playing cards, including the Jokers. Aces are high and low (above a King), and Jokers are wild cards. The number of decks varies from 2 to 4 and is based on the number of players (see chart). Each game is based on 7 rounds of hands, and the rules for each hand are unique. One player begins as dealer for the first hand, and then the player to the dealer's left becomes dealer for the next hand, and so on. Each player is dealt ten cards for the first four rounds and then 12 for the last three. The rest of the deck is then placed face down in the ...
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Sergeant Major (card Game)
3-5-8, also known as sergeant major is a game originated in the Royal Engineers, is a trick-taking card game for 3 players, based on whist, using a standard 52 card deck. 3-5-8 may be played as a gambling game, and there are many variations with names like "8-5-3" and "9-5-2" played throughout the world. Preliminaries Three players use a 52-card deck. The object is to win as many tricks as possible, ultimately 12 in a single deal to win the game. When a player wins 12 or more tricks in one hand, they win the game. First deal and exchange Draw cards to determine the first dealer and deal 16 cards to each player, the 4 remaining cards are placed on the table to form a kitty. Dealer names a suit as trump and discards 4 cards from their hand before replacing them with the kitty. Some groups allow the dealer to pick up the kitty and add it to their hand before discarding any 4 cards of the 20 they now have. Play Eldest hand leads any card to the first trick and play moves clockwise wit ...
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