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What are the Best Games?
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Games unique to this site
Pip-Pip! -- boisterous fun, suitable for mixed groups
Iceberg -- an exciting, unique scoring Rummy game for two or more
The Big Game -- a challenging variant for 42 players with 11 tricks and more counters
42 Variations -- variants on the great trick-taking domino game for more players and other variations
Marjolet -- an elegant one-deck Bezique card game for two from southwestern France
Jo-Jotte -- a sophisticated, Bridge-like game for two
Skarney -- a scoring contract Rummy card game with a twist -- no discards!
Skarney Gin -- an intriguing two-player Gin variation with no discard pile
Colonel -- if you like Gin Rummy, try this -- Gin with table melds for a unique twist
Sequence Gin -- our own Gin variation -- no sets, just sequences
Yukon -- played during the 1898 Gold Rush, an oddly fun trick-taking game for 4
Quinto -- elegant and unusual partnership trick-taking game
Domino Euchre -- Euchre with dominoes, from the 1800s!
Domino Call-Ace Euchre -- a suspenseful variant on Domino Euchre
Arlington Heights -- a nice-playing variant of Arlington Rummy
Fortune Rummy -- a great, forgotten scoring rummy from the 1930s and 1940s
Teeko -- a strategic board game played by Hollywood stars in the 1950s... forgotten today!
Ringo -- really fun in-the-round variant on checkers
Games by John Scarne (who was Scarne ?)
Skarney -- a scoring contract Rummy card game with a twist -- no discards!
Skarney Gin -- an intriguing two-player Gin variation with no discard pile
Skarney dice -- improved dice games
Teeko -- a strategic board game played by Hollywood stars in the 1950s... forgotten today!
Cuban Games
Cubilete -- the “National Game” of Cuba, a great dice game
Domino Cubano -- sophisticated, popular Cuban version of partnership dominoes. Not a kid’s game!
Game selection chart (by number of players, difficulty, etc)
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Fascinating Gamesters
Visit our bio page with profiles of the brilliant and the twisted -- game inventors!
John Scarne -- amazed presidents and gangsters, invented great games!
Ely Culbertson-- Russian revolutionary who single-handedly popularized Bridge
Al Sobel on Jo-Jotte -- on the invention of the great but forgotten Bridge-like game for two, Jo-Jotte
Joseph Wergin -- Skat expert and popularizer of Cribbage
United States Playing Card Company -- they invented 500 and other games, then tried to kill Bridge!
R.F. Foster -- prolific author whose game book from 1897 still sells today
Stewart Culin -- games anthropologist who launched the field
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Print your own game boards
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Ringo -- really fun in-the-round variant on checkers
Teeko -- strategic board game played by Hollywood stars in the 1950s... forgotten today!
Domino Games --
42 family --
42 -- The “national game” of Texas! A great trick-taking game played with Dominoes
The Big Game -- sophisticated 42 variant for 4 players with 11 tricks and more counters
42 Variations -- many 42 variations for larger groups
Moon -- a 42 variation for 3 players
Partnership Moon -- Moon for 4
Others --
Domino Euchre -- our ancestors played Euchre with dominoes ... here’s how
Call-Ace Euchre -- fun variant of Domino Euchre
Domino Cubano -- national game of Cuba -- easy to learn but deep
Card Games --
Bezique family --
Marjolet -- an elegant one-deck Bezique card game for two from southwestern France
Bezique -- one of the great over-looked card games for two
Polish Bezique -- Bezique with a twist -- you can only meld what you win in tricks
Rubicon Bezique -- classic Bezique -- with a more-challenging 4 card decks
Chinese Bezique -- Bezique on steriods with 6 card decks
Zetema -- unique lost game of the 1880s, a cross between rummy and Bezique. Elegant.
Trick-taking games --
Jo-Jotte -- a sophisticated, Bridge-like game for two
Klaberjass -- simpler, ancestor game to Jo-Jotte
Quinto -- elegant and unusual trick-taking game for 4
Yukon -- from the 1898 Gold Rush, an oddly fun trick-taking game for 4
Pip-Pip! -- boisterous fun, suitable for mixed groups
Gin rummies --
Oklahoma Gin -- the standard rules for Gin Rummy
Sequence Gin --a Gin variant in which you can only make sequences (no sets)
Skarney Gin -- adds another meld to Gin, plus you can’t discard
Colonel -- Gin with non-scoring melds played to the table. A great variation for Gin players.
Scoring rummies --
Fortune Rummy -- fun scoring rummy from the 1930s and 1940s
Arlington (Oklahoma Rummy) -- probably the most popular scoring rummy
Arlington Heights -- our own variant of Arlington Rummy
500 and Persian Rummy -- popular scoring rummy in the Midwest. One of the best.
Skarney -- a unique rummy variation for two
Iceberg -- a high scoring, exciting rummy for two or more
Board Games --
Ringo -- really fun in-the-round variant on checkers
Teeko -- strategic board game played by Hollywood stars in the 1950s... forgotten today!
Camelot and Cam -- very popular in the 1930s, yet unknown today
Dice Games --
Cubilete -- national game of Cuba. Fast, fun. One of the best dice games.
More dice games here.
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