What's your favourite card game?

Fun fact: Solitaire in Portuguese is called Paciência (which translates to “patience”)

The "cups, coins, batons and swors" (or, more accurately, "coins, cups, swords and batons") is the original set of suits (in European playing cards, almost the same as in Egyptian playing cards), as they appear in the original tarot decks. In German decks, after some experimentation, coins turned into bells, cups into hearts, swords into leaves and batons into acorns (there were more experimental suits, they didn't like to use the Latin suits). In Swiss decks, different suits from the experimental pool were chosen instead of hearts to replace cups and swords, and those're roses and shields. French decks (the ones also used by default in English-speaking countries), took and simplified German suits (hearts to hearts, leaves to spades and acorns to clubs), but chose a different suit for coins (originally crescents, but later replaced it for diamonds). Something to note is that the values/order of the suits changes depending of the style of deck and that a number of cards have been dropped from the original depending on the country.

Solitaire we knew more as Patience, here in SE England. Along with another solitaire game called Clock Patience.

There is a variation of snap called slap-Jack where you slap the deck, and another called war.

Nice use of the Casino Night Zone music from Sonic 2 at the end there!

So "gin rummy" isn't actually named after two kinds of alcohol?

My parents and grandparents played card games a lot when i was a kid. We even played a version of Uno before the specialized deck became available. My favorite growing up was canasta. We played it with 4 whole decks of cards.

Historical Trivia: The water hammer had nothing to do with fish traps and everything to do with hydraulic mining. It's a VERY DESTRUCTIVE technique of essentially eroding away the landscape with high-pressure water hoses. The runoff carried the sediment through a series of panning troughs which would collect the usable metals and channel the rest farther away, flooding nearby areas with water and silt. While this technique literally moved mountains, it was about as environmentally destructive a practice as ever existed - you can see why this was banned, even long before the idea of environmentalism. As per cards, the most infamous poker hand is "The Dead Man's Hand" - the Ace and Eight of both Spades and Clubs (the fifth card varies but is rarely specified). There are at least seven recorded instances of a card player being assassinated at the table while holding these specific cards; the most infamous was when Wild Bill Hickock was shot in the back of the head by Jack McCall on August 2nd, 1876 at Nuttal & Mann's Saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory.

4:19 My dad’s whole family plays cribbage (he’s of German heritage). My grandpa, who was a gifted carpenter, even made a cribbage board from half of a bowling pin.

You scared me a little when you said 21 and Solitaire, but then you came up with the original names for them. As far as I know, there's no real difference between 21 and Blackjack. And there's a lot more card games you didn't cover. Save them for another video?

I can't believe canasta was overlooked😭. I want to know why it's the same as basket in Spanish

I'm suprised you haven't mentioned Makao - such a classic that inspired UNO. Althouth Snap seems quite similar in terms of rules

My parents and their friends got once a month for decades to play _Bridge,_ socialize, and have fun. I used to play _Euchre_ in collage to socialize and have fun.

I remember playing Go Fish with friends and I asked if they had had an duces (nickname for the 2 cards). My mom acted as if I just dropped an F Bomb

A crib is also a name for a sort of communal feeding trough that holds corn or any animal fodder. In turn, it also resembles a baby's crib or cot with bars.

Who here had an older relative ask them if they wanted to play 52 pickup? (only to throw the cards on the ground)

What you call "Snap," we called, "Egyptian Rats Crew."

I hope you make a sequel to this one! I've always wanted to learn the origins of Old Maid and Mau Mau

In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, cribbage is known as 15-2, and it is the "national" card game up there.

A lot of games, both for tables and screens, have different titles in Europe and North America. Cluedo = clue Diamant = Incan gold Dobble = spot it Yoshi's universal gravitation = Yoshi's topsy turvy Kirby Power Paintbrush = Kirby Canvas Course Rhythm paradise = rhythm heaven

At the point you talk about the similarity of solitaire & solitary, you dropped the "a" in the "tary" part of solitary weird

The only one I didn't know was Snap. I've never played that one as far I know. As a kid I would play Go Fish and Old Maid. Old Maid had a special card in the deck of an old woman that you didn't want to be your last card. It kind of worked like Go Fish in the fact that you were matching pairs as well. My mom and I would do Gin Rummy when I was a bit older and we had rules for each hand. We would start at 7 cards and work up to 15 cards with specific things you had to do. Like for example a 9 card game would be won if you had three books (3 of the same numbered cards) in your hand.

The best names for card games are the Germanic names "Skat" (no sniggers at the back there!) and "Jass" (made famous by the Swiss consul to Springfield, Hugh Jass!).

My whole family played cards 2-3 times a month if not weekly. We loved playing a game we called Oh Hell! It was a solo cut throat spades game with No sandbagging the only way you got the bonus was you had to exactly hit your wager. now the trick was the game started with a hand of 7 cards and every Hand after that went down by one card until you had 1 card dealt to you and then back up to 7 so 13 hands long maybe 2 hours kind of crazy Lots of fun with the family. A couple of my high school buddies would come over and play with my parents before we went out on Saturday night.

“I can’t say shit in the town where the main game is called Craps!!”

When you were about to talk about specific card names, I was really expecting to hear about "suicide kings." Maybe another time.

My favorite card game also happens to have my favorite card game name: Spite And Malice.

Props for mentioning the other European playing cards besides the Anglo/French ones You use. Their colors/symbols are actually translatable between each other e.g. the swords (Italian "spada") are the spades, which would be the leaves in the German deck, which is obvious from the shape. There are tons of interesting games with equally interesting names with those too, which are worthy of their own video! Here in Bavaria the national card game would be "Schafkopf" literally "sheep-head" which actually derives it's name from two similar words: "Schaff" with double f, which is an old word for barrel, and "klopfen" - to knock. Imagine some Bavarian guys playing cards in a historical Pub, knocking their cards on one of the barrels standing there, used as a small table ideal for playing cards - that's where the name comes from. Additionally there is a whole load of cards that have their individual names in the game, and other specific vocabulary. For example the small number cards which don't give any points are called sparrows for being small and worthless. Anyone interested now should definitely look it up!

Would’ve love to learn how Pinochle got its name

I LOVE playing cribbage. Another card game I also liked a fair bit, especially when I was younger, was Kings on the Corner. It's name is fairly self-explanatory...

Two eights and two aces together are sometimes called "dead man's hand," after Wild Bill Hickok allegedly was holding this hand in a poker game when he was shot.

I've been learning a lot about cards in recent years, though the only thing I can think of is the Craps term "double ducks" for two 2s. I don't think that's the same for poker or BlackJack, though Steve does jokingly mix up the terms on the regular. Don't judge--everyone laughs!

I'm disappointed that you didn't cover the origins of the names of two of my favorite card games: Hearts and Spades. I've always wondered where those game names came from. I guess now I'll never know.

In Finland on the coast where we speak swedish we have this classic game that is called trikort or three cards because you most of the time have 3 cards on the table but my friend from the south of finland calls it skitgubbe or "shit man" and idk why the name is different in the south of finland but its funny how the name is completely different but the game is almost the same

Does the nine of diamonds "Curse Of Scotland" compound with saying the play title Macbeth, or neutralize it?

Hmm, could the crib also not be from the hay bin, feeder, I've also heard it for a cart, where hay and presumably other vegetation is stored and fed to animals. The discard pile used to feed points to the players.

Could you explain how each of the knaves gained their names? Spades: Ogier the Dane Hearts: La Hire Diamonds: Prince Hector of Troy Clubs: Lancelot

Other card games include speed, nervous and bridge.

Over the years and in various places I have encountered several completely different card games, all of which were called ‘Shithead’

The 7 of diamonds is called Settebello in Italy

Did you say "Vernor's card"? The ginger ale from Detroit?

Never heard of the 7 or 9 card names.

Would love a mention of Big Two, but i guess the name is to obvious to explain: the twos are the highest value cards

Sadly no exploration of euchre. Also I guess it makes sense that he doesn’t bring up the king of hearts given its name could potentially get him demonetized.

Ive never heard of dobble or spot it.

I love cards!

Get a copy of Hoyle.

wait, you have Vernors in the UK?????

I enjoyed Hearts, but then I bought a new computer that didn't come with that game. :(

Top trumf is the best. I wish I still had my deck.

intresting..

at 2:41 they are playing Faro not poker.

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And here I thought you were going to cover trading card games…

As an elderly housekeeper who never married, I take offense at the mention of the term ‘Old Maid’. That’s *our* word and you have no right using it

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Why do they call it "skat"?

But what about the best card game played with very real cards.... Hexes Hold'em...

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What about Uno?