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Analytic Explanations of Popular International Games

By: Misha Bolerikovsky

For many years playing cards was just something old men did, in seedy gamming rooms, but recently cards have once again become a popular thing to do when sitting around with friends at home, in the coffee shop or in a casino. Here I have listed some of my favorite games. Some of the games are very easy and take only minutes to learn and some can be very difficult to learn and may take a lifetime to learn.



Which Games Can One Pick Up Effortlessly?

1) Battle for Might

This fun one is the easiest of the lot! This game requires no skill, no strategy and no effort. The result relies purely on luck and even a four year old child can play. For playing this, you need not learn complicated rules or difficult strategy. Just note that the stronger card wins.



2) Catching the Cheater:

Maybe you might know of this game in a different name such as "Liar" or "Honesty is Not the Best Policy", but the method of playing is similar. The winner is the player who has managed to cheat the rest more than they succeeded in defrauding the rest. There are no rules but the game proceeds like so: depending on the number of players, anywhere between seven to thirteen cards are handed out and one is opened in the middle. Then, moving clockwise, each player announces what he is laying down. The others can catch him (if he lied), but whosoever is caught, must pick up all the cards that have been laid down on the playing desk.



3) Johnny 5:

Johnny 5 is a little more difficult then the first to games but still is very simple to learn. Each player is dealt 5 cards. The left over cards are placed in the center of the table face down the player to the dealers left the may put down a pair of cards or a r 3 card run of cards. If you do not have any the player must take a card. The object of the game is to get rid of all your cards and to have you last one or 2 cards total 5.



4) Joining the Fray:

One of the more entertaining games (especially for children), it requires basic colour and number combinatory skills only. You have to match numbers such as by collecting all fours and all aces, and then release all your cards onto the game deck. The focus of this game is not that much on winning, but on not losing and that is what adds the extra spice to it. It does not matter who throws his cards down first, but the player who notices it last and his cards are the last to hit the table: loses.



List of Most Difficult Games to Learn

1) Touch:

It took me more than a few hours to learn this game even though the basic structure is quite banal. The cards are arranged into two batches on either side and some are placed in the middle, others divided between you and another player. Then, each one begins (by turn) laying down a sequenced card (also by colour and also by number) that goes from top to bottom. Another aspect of touch is that even though it’s a kind of variation of Patience, here you must add cards to the aces in the middle. If you do not, you lose a turn.



2) Poker:

Texas Holdem, Caribbean Stud, Pai Gow Play: the version and variations going around for this one game are so numerous that if you would like to learn them, you would need to take a break from school, university or work and just sit and go over the different rules and regulations for each one. I know poker is popular, but it is too complicated to pick up. You need more than a few rounds to even play independently. I say, pass, unless you are truly motivated.



3) Tens Wins:

Requiring an even number of participants because they need to be paired up, the goal for each team is to win as many tens as they can. At first this does not seem laborious, but once you start playing, it gets too tiresome. You have a trump card that conquers all other cards except the exact number of it of a different colour, but this too can be trumped with another colour. In addition, you can use higher cards to create decoys by placing them facing down and declaring them as a ten of a certain colour.

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When she is not writing about online casinos and baccarat Misha Bolerikovsky spends 2 days a week in a bingo hall as the caller.

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