{"id":20223,"date":"2020-06-30T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T00:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=20223"},"modified":"2020-06-19T10:08:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T10:08:25","slug":"clubhouse-games-51-worldwide-classics-part-2-card-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/30\/clubhouse-games-51-worldwide-classics-part-2-card-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics Part 2: Card Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>For the second part of my Clubhouse Games run through, we\u2019ll \u2018shuffle\u2019 through all the card games you have to \u2018deal\u2019 with.\u00a0 I\u2019m such a card with these puns!<\/p>\n

Hanafuda<\/strong><\/p>\n

This Japanese card game is significant because making these cards was Nintendo\u2019s main business well over a hundred years ago!\u00a0 Yup, that\u2019s how they started out.\u00a0 It\u2019s kind of a cross between a memory match game and poker, in that you must match cards based on the four seasons and you get points on how many good hands you have.\u00a0 It\u2019s a bit weird.\u00a0 Well, I guess I shouldn\u2019t say it\u2019s weird.\u00a0 Just different.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to wrap my Western head around it.\u00a0 If you play the game once, you can unlock a deck of Hanafuda cards featuring Mario characters, which is neat.\u00a0 I actually have a set of real life Hanafuda playing cards with Mario on them that I got from Club Nintendo when Club Nintendo was actually cool.\u00a0 It\u2019s a bit embarrassing to admit, but I haven\u2019t opened the box they come in because I can\u2019t figure out how to open it!<\/p>\n

Riichi Mahjong<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not technically a card game, since you use tiles, but it plays like a card game.\u00a0 The learning curve is super high on this one, and I had no idea what I was doing.\u00a0 Luckily, like Chess and Shogi on this collection, you can take step by step interactive classes to learn how to play.\u00a0 I THINK this is the Mahjong game that you see a lot in Japanese arcades and there are many home console versions of this, too.\u00a0 Nintendo even made one on the Famicom, and there is a sticker of it in Smash Bros. Ultimate.\u00a0 Other companies made these kinds of games, too.\u00a0 Psikyo was usually known for 2-D shooters but they also made a lot of Mahjong games where you play against other colorful characters.\u00a0 Some were designed by Jun Tsukasa and are really neat.<\/p>\n

Last Card<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s just off brand UNO.\u00a0 There are real life Mario and Zelda UNO sets, it would\u2019ve been cool if they could\u2019ve included them here.<\/p>\n

Blackjack<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yup, that\u2019s what it is.\u00a0 Try to get as close to 21 without going over.\u00a0 One neat thing is that when you play a bunch of these card games, you can unlock a deck of regular cards with Mario characters on them as well.\u00a0 I wish you could\u2019ve unlock other cards featuring characters like Zelda and Kirby.\u00a0 They should\u2019ve had an option in this game where you earned coins by playing games, and then used those coins to buy unlockables.\u00a0 Such a missed opportunity.<\/p>\n

Texas Hold \u2018Em<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just a variation on poker.\u00a0 I played a lot of poker in college with friends, especially in our freshman year when nobody had a car on campus.\u00a0 But since we were poor college students we only bet with pennies.\u00a0 That way, if you lost, you were only out a buck at most.\u00a0 But if you won, you might get a free load of laundry out of it.\u00a0 Remember a few years ago when poker TV shows were popular?\u00a0 I never understood that. \u00a0Did you know that TellTale started out making poker games?\u00a0 They made ones later that had crossover game characters you could play poker with.\u00a0 In one of those games, GlaDOS from Portal was the dealer!<\/p>\n

President<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a variation on UNO where you have to play a card lower or higher to get rid of your hand.\u00a0 But if you are in first place and lose the next round, you get sent back to fourth place, so it\u2019s always anyone\u2019s game!<\/p>\n

Sevens<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another variation on the same theme where you must play cards lower or higher than seven to get rid of your hand.<\/p>\n

Speed<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I was in high school, playing card games in the cafeteria lunch room or band hall was a popular thing to do, and almost everyone I knew carried around a deck of cards just for the occasion.\u00a0 Speed was a popular game for us high schoolers to play.\u00a0 You and another player must play cards higher or lower than the pile to get rid of your hand, but you must do it quickly in real time!\u00a0 I was never very good at this one because I was never fast enough.\u00a0 That includes here.<\/p>\n

Matching<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just the classic memory match game where you must flip over cards to get a match and remember where they are.\u00a0 Great game to get for young kids, and it\u2019s also seen in many a bonus game in other video games, like Mario 3.\u00a0 After you play it here, you can even unlock a set of memory match cards featuring Mario.\u00a0 Again, a missed opportunity to have Zelda, Kirby, or other Nintendo properties to match.<\/p>\n

War<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh man, I played this one all the time when I was little.\u00a0 Since it\u2019s so simple, it\u2019s a good card game to play with younger kids.\u00a0 You and an opponent play a card, and whoever is higher keeps both.\u00a0 If you have the same cards, you get to flip over up to three others until one gets the highest, and then they keep all those cards!\u00a0 Whoever has the most cards at the end, wins.\u00a0 Such a fun one.<\/p>\n

Takoyaki<\/strong><\/p>\n

You take the cards ace through ten and arrange them in a 5×2 rectangle face down and the other player does the same.\u00a0 Then you draw cards and if you get the same number you can flip the card in your set over.\u00a0 When all the cards are flipped over, you win.\u00a0 So why is it called Takoyaki?\u00a0 Well, Takoyaki is a Japanese treat, a piece of octopus cooked in a dough ball. \u00a0The pan they are cooked in is like how the cards are arranged in this game, and when they are all flipped, they\u2019re cooked.\u00a0 Takoyaki is a popular dish served at Japanese festivals and such, and many video games showcase them, like Cooking Mama and Taiko Drum Master.\u00a0 I tried Takoyaki once at a restaurant.\u00a0 It\u2019s OK I guess.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t gross, but nothing I\u2019d crave again.<\/p>\n

Pig\u2019s Tail<\/strong><\/p>\n

You arrange the cards in a circle, like a pig\u2019s tail, and pick one and place it in the middle.\u00a0 The other player does the same, and must put that card on top of the pile, but only if it\u2019s the same number or suit.\u00a0 If not, then they must take the whole pile.\u00a0 When you run out of cards in the curl, whoever has the least amount of cards, wins.\u00a0 I imagine it would be hard to arrange the cards in a perfect circle like they do in the game.<\/p>\n

Mahjong Solitaire<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is probably the Mahjong game most people in the US know.\u00a0 You match tiles, but can only match ones that aren\u2019t between any others.\u00a0 This one is neat because there are dozens of stages and arrangements to try with varying difficulty levels.\u00a0 And you can also turn on an assist mode that makes playable tiles easier to see.<\/p>\n

Klondike Solitaire<\/strong><\/p>\n

Of course you can\u2019t have a card game collection without solitaire!\u00a0 Perfect for playing when you need to kill some time.\u00a0 Oh man, on the Nintendo 3DS, there was a fun downloadable game called Pocket Card Jockey that combined solitaire with\u2026horse racing?!?\u00a0 Yeah, and it was so fun.\u00a0 I got really addicted to it and if they would re-release it for Switch or mobile devices (which it would be perfect for), I\u2019d totally get it again.\u00a0 The neat thing about that game was it was made by GameFreak, makers of Pokemon.\u00a0 So a lot of the horse\u2019s names you raced against made reference to Pokemon, with names like Bulba Soarer, Volt Tackle, etc.<\/p>\n

Spider Solitaire<\/strong><\/p>\n

And last is another variation of solitaire, just a bit harder.\u00a0 And those are all the card games!\u00a0 For the final part we\u2019ll look at the misc. games on this collection.\u00a0 That\u2019s all for now!\u00a0 Later!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the second part of my Clubhouse Games run through, we\u2019ll \u2018shuffle\u2019 through all the card games you have to \u2018deal\u2019 with.\u00a0 I\u2019m such a card with these puns! Hanafuda This Japanese card game is significant because making these cards was Nintendo\u2019s main business well over a hundred years ago!\u00a0 Yup, that\u2019s how they started […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20225,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20223\/revisions\/20225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}