September 3rd, 2009

Two Player Card Games

If you are looking for a game which can be played with only one partner, maybe your special one or one of your best friends, here is the right place to find it, because I have selected best two player card games, which will make your time pass in a funny way. In card games, the number of variants of games is unlimited, and you can even create your own games.

Crazy Eights is a nice game, and it will take me a while to explain it, but it is pretty cool as a two players game. You have to start by shuffling the deck, and if you have two players, each will get seven cards. The remaining cards will face down, and the top card will be placed to the side for discarding the pile.

The player who didn't deal the cards will play a legal card. A legal card is explained by the following rules: if the card on the pile is not an 8, you have play a card to match the suit of the card which was played previously, an 8 can be placed on any card and the one who plays it must nominate the suit for the next player, and if an 8 will be on the top of the pile, you will have to play exactly the suit which was nominated by the one who played the 8. The player who gets rid of all the cards wins, and the other receive points for every card they still have in their hand at the end of the gamte. Eights mean 50 points, a picture card values 10 points and others give you only one point.

Beggar-Your-Neighbor is more for children, but it can be fun for adults too. It can be played alone too, but it is nice to play it with a friend. The cards must be divided between you and the other player, and then each one draws a card, overlapping the card drew before. This continues until a card like Ace, King, Jack or Queen is drawn, and the other player, the one who did not play this high card, must stack lower cards on the top of the high one (four cards if the drawn card is an Ace, three for a King, two for a Queen and only one for a Jack). The one who drew the high card in the beginning will get the pile, and the way to stop this is to draw a high card too. The one who has no cards left at the end of the game will loose.

War is a pretty easy game, and you will need a 52 card deck to play it. You have to shuffle the cards and then lay the face down, and then each player draws one card. The one who has a higher card takes the other's card and places it at the bottom of his/her deck of cards. The process continues until one of the players has all the cards, and he is the winner.

Double Solitaire might sound familiar to you, and it is the double version of the well known Solitaire game. You will need, of course two decks of cards, one for each of the players, and they will shuffle and deal the cards, like in a normal game. The difference is that the Aces are shared. If the first player puts up an Ace, the second player can put its two. This makes the game impossible to play all the cards, and it usually ends when the players are stuck and they cannot make any other moves. The player who puts up the most cards will win.

A very nice game to play in airports, cafes, or fast food joints is called Idiot. For this game you will need a deck of cards, and this is the meaning of the cards: Jockers-wild, Aces-high, Threes-low, Two cards kill the pile, Tens means that the game must be restarted. If a seven is played, it means that the next player must play a card lower than seven. The dealer must place three cards facing down and they will not be turned over, and one card face up on each of those three cards. These cards will remain there most of the time, until the end of the game. The dealer will also play three cards to each player and the deck in the middle of the players. The players must make sure that they have more than three cards in their hand, and if they don't have them, they must draw as many cards as are played to reach that number or cards.

The game continues with each player placing the number of higher cards of what they have in the hand, and with the refill up to three, while a deck remains on the table. If a four is played, the next player can play as many fours or higher he has in the hand. If a King is played, only an Ace will beat it, and if the next player doesn't have it, he must take the whole pile of played cards. Two, sevens and tens can be played at anytime. The ten will remove all the used cards from play, and this is why it is called killing the pile. If a two is played, the count is started over.

An Ace will be beaten only by an Ace, and if the seven is played anything less than seven can be played too, or something from the special cards. Nothing more than seven can be played over a seven. When the cards are out, you have to take the supplement cards, and these are those three cards from the beginning, facing down. You will play with these cards until you finish them, and if they beat, it's good for you, but you have to repeat the process till the end of game. The first one without cards will be the Idiot!