Monday 8 January 2024

gin rummy (11. 253)

Via the New Shelton wet/dry, we are referred to a vintage but still actively and updating resource that catalogues the rules of play for hundreds of traditional, propriety and invented card games from all around the world and in several languages with detailed instructions and diagrams like this initial setup for a racing to discard hand called Peanuts, Squeal or Scrooge. There are a lot of historic games, some for play with specially suited decks, that sound intriguing like Ruff and Honours, Seven-Toed Pete, the Victorian pastime Pope Joan, Jemima Puddle Duck and Canadian Salad. There are also listings by number of players, available equipment. Try and pick up a new game to play with friends and family.

 
synchronoptica

one year agoMan with a Movie Camera (1929), All Creatures Great and Small (1978) Fourteen Points for Peace (1918), the chemistry of bread plus an insurrection in Brasilia

two years ago: I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing (1971), more rogue planets, French Roswell plus the breakup of Ma Bell

three years ago: some loyalists denounce Trump, assorted links to revisit plus more conspiratorial thinking

four years ago: the last of the Beothuk,  posters for the Tokyo Games plus more links to enjoy

five years ago: no longer existing urban rail routes,  a family-run pizzeria, an artificial moon, songs in minor keys plus cryptic complaints about a lapse in appropriations