Today's Question "What game did you like to play as a kid or as an adult?"

I suppose as the computer geek I've become some of my very favorite games include Solitaire, Pinball, Free-cell, and Spider Solitaire.  More recently I've been privy to playing cards with actual people - imagine that!

No, seriously.  When I was a child I loved playing checkers with my Grandpa (Paw-paw - I am from the South after all) He came over some weekends and challenged me to see how much I had been practicing.  He always won - I've never been one to like people who allow me to win.  My paw-paw was awesome and I will never forget checkers games I played with him.

My grandmother had this set of cards.. they were crooked cards.  I loved them - more because of the way they looked than anything else, because I really suck at card games.  She taught me to play Rummy (or was it Gin Rummy) and that was exciting, but I really just didn't get it then. I simply wanted to play with those magnificent cards!

As I grew older I started playing Scrabble.  It was definitely my game of choice for a very long time.  I learned to spell - perfect for my future as a blogger!  Although some words I still spell incorrectly every time I write them.  We had a a board that was on a turn table.  It was so perfect.. as the game moved to the next player the board turned so that no one had to look at the board upside down on their turn.  I've never seen another board like it, but if you like Scrabble, you gotta get one!

Oh yeah... back to playing cards with other people... We had friends visit from California last winter and they totally introduced me to this game...  please pardon my french, but *ta-da* it's a drinking card game called Fuck Your Neighbor.  Yeah I know watch my mouth.  But It is so simple.  Everyone gets only one card and the guy with the highest card is the looser. Ok...  Let me back-up...  The dealer deals one card to everyone at the table.  Everyone in turn looks at their card and assesses the situation - high cards are bad.  The guy to the left of the dealer goes first and decides whether to trade their card with their neighbor's card or to keep it (get it...  the name of the game that is!) This continues around the whole table when it gets to the dealer, that person gets to choose whether to keep the card or to draw from the top of the stack.  The looser in every round puts forward a coin - money isn't the object of the game, it's just a way to keep track of the person who's loosing LOL.  See, everyone starts with 3 coins - the first one out of coins is the "Bar Bitch" and must now pour drinks for everyone while the game continues.  Hence the game becomes more fun with each round.

So, there you have it...  Hope my card game directions aren't confusing... it's really a game you must play to understand how fun it is!

Happy Tuesday!

--Trina

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