The cheat can mark cards in a variety of ways. The most common way of marking cards is by putting a nail mark into the card by squeezing the card between the thumb and forefinger. Other methods include crimping the corners, grease marks, dirt marks, etc. A time-honored cheat by the dealer is to sneakily deal an extra card to yourself or your partner, leaving only three in the kitty. While dealing an extra card might be obvious in most card games, Euchre's distinctive dealing tradition dictates that all cards be dealt out after two rounds of the table, generally in clumps of twos and threes.
The variety of card games means that you can find one to suit most any situation — at the least, most card players are familiar with some type of Poker, though they may need to be reminded of how the hands are ranked. You can play some card games as long as all the players are happy to continue; others end at a proscribed score, and all are made more enjoyable when players adhere to card-game etiquette.
How to Choose the Best Card Games
Hacks For Games
Anyone who tells you that they know the best card games is either a fool or exceptionally arrogant. But, it is possible to offer a selection according to the needs of the players, so here goes!
Best cards games based on a specific number of players
For one player: Accordion and Poker Patience if you’re short on space; La Belle Lucie if you can spread out
For two players: Gin Rummy, Spite and Malice, and Cribbage
For three players: Pinochle and Ninety-nine
For four players: Bridge, Euchre, and Spades
For five to eight players: Hearts, Poker, and Oh, Hell!
For eight or more: Eights and President
Best cards games based on type of play
Best games for serious, competitive types: Whist and Bridge
Best games if you’re playing in a cramped space: Hearts and Eights
Best games for large groups: Poker and Blackjack
Best games that combine bidding and play: Pinochle and Spades
Best partnership games: Bridge, Whist, and Euchre
Best cards games based on experience
For beginners: Oh Hell! and Ninety-Nine
For children: Go Fish, Concentration, and Cheat
For groups with mixed experience levels: Knock-Out Whist, Fan Tan, and Rummy
For experienced card-players who want new thrills: Pinochle and Cribbage
How Card Games End
Beginning a card game is generally pretty straightforward — you deal the proscribed number of cards to the players. However, ending a card game can be a little different. Some games continue until a player reaches a certain score, others require a specific number of deals. The following list of popular card games tells you that you keep playing until . . .
Blackjack: The players run out of money (don’t worry about the casino) or decide they’ve had enough.
Bridge: One side wins a rubber of two games, then the side with the higher score wins. If playing Chicago Bridge, you change partners after four deals. If playing Duplicate Bridge, you play a session of between 20 and 26 deals — whatever the Tournament Director decrees.
Canasta: A player or team scores 1,500 points.
Cribbage: A player scores 121 points.
Eights: A player scores 250 points (or whatever number is agreed on by the players).
Euchre: One side scores 10 points.
Fan Tan: One player cleans out all the rest, or when everybody has had enough.
Gin Rummy: A player scores 250 points in one game or a series of games.
Hand and Foot: You finish four deals. Whoever has the most points wins.
Hearts: A player amasses 100 penalty points, at which point the player with the fewest penalty points wins.
Oh Hell!: You complete cycle of hands (starting with 7 cards to each player, and then reducing to 1, and going up again to 7 cards). The player with the highest score wins.
Pinochle: A player or partnership scores 1,000 points.
Poker: The players lose their money or lose interest.
President: Everybody gets bored of humiliating one another.
Rummy: A player scores 100 points – or whatever total is agreed by the contestants.
Setback: A player scores 11 (or 21) points.
Spades: One side scores 500 points.
Whist: One side wins a rubber of two games by getting to 7 points first on two occasions. At a Whist drive, a session typically ends after 24 deals.
How to Rank Poker Hands
Poker may be the best-known card game, and if you’re going to play, you need to know how the hands rank. The following details the various Poker hands from the highest-ranking to lowest, along with the odds of catching such a hand:
Royal straight flush: The top five cards (A-K-Q-J-10) in one of the four suits. Odds: 650,000 to 1.
Straight flush: Any sequence of five cards from the same suit (such as the 2-3-4-5-6 of clubs). If two players have straight flushes on the same hand, the higher sequence outranks the lower one. Odds: 75,000 to 1.
Four of a kind: Four of any one card; the fifth card in the hand can be anything. If two players have four of a kind at the same time, the rank of the four cards determines the better hand. If two players have equal ranked quads, the rank of the fifth card determines who wins. Odds: 4,150 to 1.
Full house: Three of a kind matched with a pair — for example, three 10s and two 9s. If two players both have a full house, the higher three of a kind determines the better hand. Odds: 700 to 1.
Flush: Five cards of the same suit, no sequence required. When two players have flushes, the highest card in each flush determines the better hand; if the top cards are the same, you look at the second card, and so on. Odds: 500 to 1.
Straight: Five cards of consecutive rank (in numerical sequence) in any suit. If two players have straights, the top card of the straight determines the winner. Odds: 250 to 1.
Three of a kind: Also knows as triplets, trips, or a set, this hand consists of three cards of the same numeric value, together with two unmatched cards. The higher-ranking three of a kind wins. Odds: 47 to 1.
Two pair: Four cards in two pairs with an unmatched fifth card. Ties are broken by the value of the top pair, followed by the value of the second pair, and finally by the spare card. Odds: 20 to 1.
One pair: One pair with three unmatched cards is the second-lowest hand. The rank of the pair, followed by the unmatched cards, splits the tie. Odds: 2 to 5.
High card: The weakest hand, high card means you have five unmatched cards. The top card in the hand determines the better collection. If two hands tie, such as two hands with ace-high, you move to the second card, and so on. Odds: 1 to 1.
Card Game Do’s and Don’ts
Card games are meant to be fun and entertaining and paying attention to the do’s and don’ts of card-playing can help you keep your enjoyment factor high and your frustration level low.
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Card-playing do’s include:
Determine the rules of the game before play begins. Most games have several variations, and you need to iron out the rules before you start.
Shuffle the cards before each hand. Cut the cards, or arrange for someone else to do so, before dealing them.
Make sure that no one can see your cards, both during the deal and during play.
Avoid conversation that gives away information, or if the sole purpose of your remarks is to upset, irritate, or mislead your partner or opponents. (At Poker, though, you can get away with almost anything!)
Try to remember all the cards that you held at the start of play and recall the salient details of the cards played by the other players.
Listen to your partner’s bids and watch his plays. He wants to help you, so don’t ignore him.
Play each card in the same tempo. The speed of your play can emphasize how you feel about your cards.
Study your opponents’ actions at the table. If the game involves bluffing, try to read body language during bluffs. If you can, try to watch a group of players before joining them; you can read their behavior better when you’re not tied to one position at the table and you don’t have to worry about a hand.
Only try to bluff only one or two players at a time. If you’re bluffing against three or more players, the odds are that one of them can beat whatever bluff you’re pretending to hold.
Card-playing don’ts include:
Make any undue efforts to look at anyone else’s hand, both during the deal and during play.
Pick up your cards until the deal is finished.
Indicate whether you’re pleased or unhappy about the cards you’re dealt. In an individual game, you give your opponents unnecessary information about your hand. In a partnership game, you give your partner illegal information about your holdings.
Accidentally expose any cards while dealing, either by turning a card over or by distributing them in such a way that players can see them.
Accidentally drop a card on the table (as opposed to playing it). If you do so in an individual game, your opponent benefits from the sight of part of your hand, which is punishment enough for the error. In a partnership game, exposing a card gives your partner unauthorized information, which may lead to penalties.
Play or lead out of turn. Pay attention to the game so you don’t get caught in this embarrassing position.
Criticize your partner. It never accomplishes anything positive. Don’t dwell on what has passed; the cards have no memory.
If you think you have played the world’s best and popular card game, then wait until you play the Bullshit, a game devoted wholly to bluffing. In other words, this game is all about deception and lying just as much as it is about skill and cunning. In this section of our website, we’re going to cover more about the game, rules on how to play it, and much more. Typically, it is a comprehensive tutorial of the popular card game, and the guidelines we would follow is as shown below:
- Introduction
- Objective of the game
- Equipment
- Game setup
- How to play the game and basic rules
- Ending the game and scoring
- Game variations
- Conclusion
Le’s get started and learn how to play this exiciting card game!
The object of a Bullshit game is to get rid of all your cards in hand before any other player. This is done in an orderly manner, where all the cards are face down, giving a player a chance to lie their head off about what they are going to put on the table. Interestingly, if the lie is exposed, the lying player is required to pick the file. In some variations of Cheat card game, runner-ups are declared so that the game can continue even after the first winner has been determined.
Between two and ten players play the Cheat game where one standard deck of 52 cards is used.
Depending on what variant of Bullshit you are playing, Jokers are sometimes left in and take the role of wilds. However, other rules insist that jokers be removed. Whichever the case, the dealer then proceeds to deal all the cards to each participant until there are none left; this perhaps explains why some players will have one card extra. The first player (selected at random or following specific rules based on game variant) begins the round. Other players play in turns in a clockwise direction.
Cheat is a relatively simple game to learn and play. Of course, some standard rules have to be adhered to at all times, but people play it with different rules just to make it even more enjoyable. Some have rules that encourage a player to bluff more, but this does not necessarily mean they should. As a matter of fact, if a player bluffs too much, other will begin to notice, and he/she will start getting called out.
On the table is a discard pile, which often starts empty. A turn consists of discarding cards (usually one or two) face down on the pile, and then followed by calling out its rank. The player to play first must discard Aces, the second player has to discard Twos, the third discard Threes, and so on. After Tens comes Jacks, followed by Queens, then Kings, and then back to Aces, and the process repeats.
Since cards are discarded face down, players do not necessarily have to play the rank they are calling. For instance, if your turn is to discard Eights, you may decide to discard any card or rather, a mixture of cards.
Any player who thinks that the card(s) discarded do not match the rank called can proceed to challenge the play by shouting ‘Bullshit, or Cheat, or I doubt it!’ If this is the case, the card(s) played by the challenged player are supposed to be exposed, and any of below can happen:
- If they are all of the ranks that were called by the challenged player, then the challenge is deemed false, and the challenger is ordered to pick up the entire discard pile
- Otherwise, if the played card(s) is different from the rank called, then the challenge is correct, and the person who called the card(s) is required to pick up the entire discard pile
As soon as the challenge is resolved, the play continues normally. The part of the game that is incredibly exciting and challenging is when they are very cards left outstanding; that is towards the end of the play. If a player discards their final card and by any chance challenged and found out that indeed he/she had bluffed, they may have to pick up the whole discard pile.
The first person in the Bullshit game to get rid of all their cards, perhaps lucky to have survived all the challenges including the one resulting from final play, is considered the winner.
As earlier mentioned, apart from the standard rules, there are many other rules based on different game variations. For instance, a Cheat game for more than three players requires the use of two or more decks of 52 playing cards. In some game variations, the rank sequences go downward rather than the traditional upward, and much more. In a nutshell, here below are some of the most popular Bullshit card game variations:
- Canadian and Spanish Bullshit
- British Bullshit
- China Bullshit
- Verish’ Ne Verish
- Indian Bluff
- Hawaiian Cheat
- I Doubt It/Bullshit/Cheat Rating
Summary
Bullshit, Cheat, or I Doubt It is great and fun card game worth a trial. Some responsible parents would urge that this game might teach their children to be liars. However, this argument is not indeed true! This is because the game allows participants (children included) to practice the skills of observing the behaviors of truth-tellers as well as liars, an essential skill to have in life. Therefore, if you are planning a family vacation or parties, then you consider having fun with the Bullshit card game. Nonetheless, it is an addictive game, and people should learn to play responsibly!