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Old 11-07-2011, 06:11 AM
 
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What are some popular card games/board games played among Marylanders/Washingtonians?

For example, where I grew up in Michigan...EUCHRE was #1 by far...Michigan Rummy was up there...then games like Hearts and Spades...Poker is a recent big one. EUCHRE dominated at family get togethers and college dorms though.

How about in and around DC/Maryland?
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Old 11-07-2011, 08:55 AM
 
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spades, poker, tonk, shooting dice
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Old 11-07-2011, 11:10 AM
 
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All of the above and Bid Whist!
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Old 11-07-2011, 12:32 PM
 
Location: Maryland
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spades, poker, tonk, shooting dice
Haven't played tonk in a minute. We used to play for money in junior high.
Graduated to shooting dice in high school.
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Old 11-07-2011, 02:23 PM
 
Location: Cumberland
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Spades (with the Big Joker and Little Jocker), Rummy, Poker (dealer picks game), Slap Jack (when we were kids), Stab your neighbor (again when we were kids), and Speed (I think it was called) when I was in college.
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Old 11-08-2011, 07:33 AM
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spades, tonk, poker, bid whist, i declare war (when i was young)
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Old 11-08-2011, 03:34 PM
 
Location: Cumberland
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What is Tonk? I have never heard of it. I have played Euchre on-line before, but never heard of it before that.
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Old 11-08-2011, 06:57 PM
 
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What is Tonk? I have never heard of it. I have played Euchre on-line before, but never heard of it before that.
Euchre is a very regional game...seems to mostly be around the Great Lakes. People in Michigan are obsessed about it, but noticed that people in Ontario seem to have a similar passion for it.
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Old 11-08-2011, 07:01 PM
 
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I always wondered if the version of Spades I played was regional. We would take the red 2s out of the deck and replace them with Jokers, that functioned as the highest spades. The order was

Big Joker (normally marked with a B")
Litte Joker
2 of Spades
Ace of Spades
and so on.

There was also none of this "bidding nil" crap You could go 10 for 200 points...if you dared. It was a fun game. I adapted to playing the "normal" way, but being used to having 2 extra trump cards really messed up my card counting at first!
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Old 11-09-2011, 05:48 AM
 
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I didnt know anything about Texas hold-em style poker until I moved to the DC area (I always played 5 card stud poker in Hampton Roads). That is huge here.
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