What is a fun 4-player card game...?

Question

What is a fun 4-player card game?

Answer 1

Egyptian rat trap.

It's the one where you flip cards out of your hand without looking at them. If one person plays a 9 (or any card) and the next person plays a 9(or the same card) too, you slap it because it's a double. If there's one card in between the doubles you slap and it's a sandwich. When you slap you get the cards, and the goal of the game is to get ALL the cards.

If you put down a Jack, the next person has 1 chance to put down a face card or an ace. For queens you have 2, kings 3, and aces 4. If they don't put down a face card (or an ace) you get the entire pile that's built up in the middle.

It's a really fun, fast-paced game!

Answer 2

Uno

Blackjack

Spoons

B.S.

Hearts

Poker

Answer 3

OK, you might need an open mind for this one. Did you know that tarot cards were invented for playing card games? Don't worry if you don't like the occult associations, most of the games are now played with a French suited pack that you wouldn't recognize as tarot at all. However, the old Italian designs are still used for play in Italy, Sicily, and Switzerland.

The cards were invented in mid 15th century Milan for game play - the extra suit of picture cards took as their theme a traditional Christian triumph procession - hence they were called trionfi, meaning triumphs, and from which we get our word trump. It was the invention of tarot that marked the invention of trumps in card games. For 350 years the cards were know for nothing other than card games (and no, the church never objected because they recognized the images as Christian!).

The first four player you should consider is the French tarot - which is now their second most popular card game. This is a great entry point into the tarot family and always good fun, strategic but without being too demanding.

My personal favourite is Ottocento, a game played with a pack unique to Bologna (quite easy to obtain over the internet though). It is a game of fixed parnerships that can give Bridge a run for its money without anyone having to learn any of those annoying bidding conventions!

The Austrian/Hungarian family of tarot games (often known as Tarock) is also very popular and usually for four players. They tend to use the device of calling a card and whoever holds it is your partner. These range from the simple, such as Zwanziger-rufen (call the XX), to the really demanding and complex game of Hungarian Royal Tarock.

You can find Anglicised rules to many of these games here:

http://www.tarocchino.com

and some rules with their original language terms here:

http://www.pagat.com

Answer 4

My 2 favorite card games are Uno, and Blackjack