Card games that are locally popular (live, store, population)
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A lot of card game have pockets of popularity
Canasa is big in New York and Miami.
Cribbage is the state religion in Wisconsir.
Boure' is common locally in Louisiana.
Euchre is common in some areas, unknown in others.
Do you have any specialties in your area?
Pig, is famously popular, in Pickett and Fentress counties of Tennessee. They even have a world championship, that is held in a general store in Forbus, Tennessee.
A lot of card game have pockets of popularity
Canasa is big in New York and Miami.
Cribbage is the state religion in Wisconsir.
Boure' is common locally in Louisiana.
Euchre is common in some areas, unknown in others.
Do you have any specialties in your area?
I’ve lived in Wisconsin a total of 5 years.
Not saying cribbage isn’t popular here, but this is the first time I’ve heard that.
Maybe that’s why some people can be so insular in Wisconsin, they don’t want a bunch of outsiders messing with their cribbage mojo.
Really though, I’m pretty sure the state religion is a Packers-laced version of Catholicism.
Neat thread. Sounds like a better-bygone era, people sitting around playing cards rather than whatever it is we do nowadays. No doubt many still do, I’m just talking overall…
Cribbage is indeed big in Wisconsin, as well as other northern states (Montana, Maine).
Canasta has the most results in Arizona, but there's not a lot of data (wide fluctuations between states). Between that and OP's mention of New York and Miami, I was thinking it was a Hispanic thing, and yeah, apparently it comes from Uruguay.
Magic: The Gathering is biggest in the western and upper New England states --- first is Utah, then Washington, Oregon, Maine. The fandom is pretty white AFAIK, which makes sense for something oriented toward medieval (European) fantasy tropes. Still, I would've guessed more searches in California and Massachusetts (tech hotspots).
Yu-Gi-Oh has less geographical stratification, but more searches in Appalachia (West Virginia, Kentucky, and demographically similar Oklahoma). With no other information, I'm assuming this has to do with it being a game that was bigger a decade or two ago, and cultural trends taking longer to reach that part of the country.
Solitaire is what I predicted: upper New England, the mountain west, and West Virginia --- the states with the oldest populations.
Cards Against Humanity has a similar distribution to MtG --- I was guessing there'd be a more urban distribution. Though I guess this distribution in mostly white states also makes sense for a game whose entire point is political incorrectness.
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