Being old and boring, I don't know squat about esports (don't get me started on cribbage, though!). Anyway, I see Esports Engine is Columbus-based, so she'll remain local. Seems this rather new company (former in October '19) is doing pretty well for itself: https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/columb...s-based-esports-engine-finding-global-success https://www.espn.com/esports/story/_/id/27969610/former-blizzard-vp-apicella-launches-esports-engine
Actually, no. But I did as a child with my grandfather. And checkers. My wife and I have taken up backgammon, though (I mean, when we're desperate).
Cribbage is a wonderful game. I was always far ahead of the curve in math. Card games can be wonderful teachers.
Our family (extended as well) are Euchre players (my aunts are Bridge mavens - I tried to learn but didnt keep to it). It seems this game is limited to people who grew up/went to college in Ohio, Indiana, or Michigan.
Euchre is a Midwest game for sure but I find it painfully dull. Cribbage and backgammon are fantastic.
Yeah, when I got to college in Maryland, nobody there had heard of euchre. Contract bridge was the social game.
At UW-Madison, the Milwaukeeans I went to school with all grew up playing a game called sheepshead, which no one outside of that city had ever heard of. According to Wikipedia:
In Eastern PA it was pinochle. Almost no one out her knows how to play, so it's been decades since I played. Spent a lot of free time in HS and college playing (when I wasn't playing chess).
I don't think we really know why she left the Crew. But it doesn't seem as though it was for this, specifically. She left the Crew in mid-December, almost four months ago. I don't get the sense that she really knew, then, what her next career move would be.
Anyone ever play German Solo (Euchre variant)? My dad and his brothers played it religiously at get togethers and even with my many years of Euchre experience I still could never work out the bidding/scoring rules on it.
Did they play with a German deck? I've watched some of the older members of the German Family Society play a few different games using the German deck, mostly Skat and I think Schafkopf, but they could be playing German Solo as well. It's tough to keep it straight. I'd like to learn some of those games. The people my age stick to Euchre, Spades, Hearts, and Poker.
I had no idea what pinochle was until I met my wife's family. Everyone in her dads family plays it. I halfass learned how to play a long time ago but have since forgotten.
I expect I'd pick it up again fairly quickly, but haven't had the opportunity in a very long time. It got me in trouble playing euchre, as you have to follow trump in pinochle more than in euchre, as one difference.
My grandfather, my mother and her friends used to love to play skat. My older brother and I were always recruited to be the third one in the game when they didn't have a third. Fun game. Similar to bridge where you have to bid to play and, if you play the hand, you're playing against both opponents. You win points based on the hand you have and lose double the amount of points if you lose your hand.
Anyone ever heard of 31? My dad’s family played it at every occasion. 3 cards same suit. Closest to 31 wins. I’ve never met anyone else who has played it so I’m just curious.
Just a regular deck of cards but only 7 - Ace. Queen of Clubs is always high, followed by the 7 of trump suit, and then Queen of Spades...then Ace, King, on down... You usually play with small change (nickles, dimes). The payout and betting system was always the part that I couldn't grok. Of course it was over 30 years ago the last time I tried to sit down and play...maybe have better luck now.