Tag Archives: Classic Card Games

Waterworks, table top plumbing at its finest

Gimmicks and fads in games will come and go. The best games are always the simple ones. They’re ones that are easy to start but hard to quit while still challenging you. Waterworks is a card game that walks the line between gimmick and classic…the real problem is, you’ve probably never heard of it.

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Classic cards, Mille Bornes continues to please

Classic cards, Mille Bornes continues to please

No matter how many new fads and gimmicks come down the pike, many games have stood the test of time. Monopoly, Scrabble, Chutes & Ladders and Risk, just to name a few, but these classic games all have something in common…they’ve all be reinvented over and over again. Having numerous iterations doesn’t mean they’re not [...]

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The Purity of Poker

Sure, video games and various electronic diversions are available now. Who would want to find a pack of playing cards and start up a poker game when you can flip out your cell phone and play video space poker? I suppose I would. Poker is a lost skill. People my age spent twenty years learning [...]

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