I have always liked almost any tpye card game.... I did learn one when I was in the service back in the late sixties, early seventy's, was in the Navy... It's a four player (person) game, 2 against 2 sitting across from each other... you start by cutting for trump and than dealing out all cards (no jokers, 13 cards to each person), than you count (or guess) at how many pots or ticks you will take and make a bid... your bid and your partners bid is added together and you will have to take that many tricks or hands... you have to follow suit, first person next to play (How ever had the highest bid, first) comes out with a card (no trump until it is broken), with each other person playing (same suit if you have it) one card to the hand or pile (highest card takes the pile or pot), if you don't have the suit you "may" trump the hand with what ever trump is. After all cards have been played ( all thirteen on the first hand dealt) you count the "tricks" ( each 4 card pile or pot is a trick) you took... For each trick you take you will get Points (each point is worth a penny, or a nickel, or higher...but be careful on how high, lol), we unusally have 5 points for each trick that you have bid and 1 point for each trick over your bid... if you don't reach your bid (you will bid on each dealing of the cards) on that hand you go "set" the amount you have bid times the 5 points (what ever value you have put on each trick)... This starts with dealing out all 52 cards to the four players (thirteen cards in each players hand), after that hand, each person (the deal moving to the left one person each time) is dealt 12 cards (ok, see that, lol) Hands are dealt out from 13, to 12 to 11 to 10 down to 2 cards eachperson (when you get to the five cards in a hand down to two cards in a hand, you (as a team) only have to bid one trick....you only deal one hand of two cards, but than you go to three per hand all the way back to (cutting for a trump on the last hand before dealing)thirteen cards per player... best to have a scroe sheet made up with numbers going down left side of paper with 13 to 2 back to 13, and at the top of sheet putting bid score....bid score.... (we put) with us and them above these two columns....Its a pretty long game (cold, or raining evenings are good times to play) but if you get good at it.... well I (my partner and I) made a lot of money playing this game when we were out to sea... have made hundreds of dollars playing all night taking on all comers when the points were set right, lol.... I'm sure I've left something out in this writing but this would get you started well enough to figure out anything else you might want to use in this game... By the way (in case anyone else knows too) it was called (not sure of the spelling) "back alley booray" The booray is what I am not sure of spelling right... but if you get the chance, get a few people together and give it a try.... PapaGary  | 
16th November 2007, 10:47 AM
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