MetaFilter posts tagged with Games and cards

Well I walk into the room, passing out hundred dollar bills

Horace Rumpole — Sat, 25 May 2013 15:09:42 -0800

When We Held Kings: The oral history of the 2003 World Series of Poker, in which an amateur named Moneymaker turned $39 into $2.5 million and the poker boom was born.

Playing card art

zamboni — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:12:13 -0800

♡♢♣♠ Different kinds of playing card art. Cards as literature: Max Aub, Shakespeare, Pushkin, Gogol, and Boris Kobe. Kobe, previously. Hand-drawn Soviet prison cards. Vladislav Erko's Taras Bulba cards. Siberian Museum of playing cards. A history of transformation cards. Some racial caricaturing. Japanese Daikaiju playing cards, originally distributed as a Kewpie mayonnaise promotion. Mefi's Own John Ralston's Loteria cards. Playing card polyhedrals.

Boar-deer-butterfly GO!

klangklangston — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:39:42 -0800

Hanafuda (Koi Koi) is a flash game that plays with the hanafuda deck of cards. (As a trivia side note, hanafuda cards were the beginning of Nintendo.) Once you're familiar with the deck, you can play Minhato, a java game that uses the same cards. My brother sent me a pack of the cards and told me to learn to play Go-stop, but there don't seem to be any places to do that online anymore, at least without weird registrations.

Do you kind of wish Pokemon cards had REAL creatures not FAKE creatures?

jonesor — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:00:21 -0800

Do you kind of wish Pokemon cards had REAL creatures not FAKE creatures? This year is the International Year of Biodiversity and is therefore a fitting year to launch The Phylomon Project. The project was prompted by a 2002 study [pdf] that found children as young as eight had the remarkable ability to identify and characterise in excess of 120 different Pokemon characters but were totally flummoxed by photos of “real” flora and fauna from their own backyards. What is the project? Well, it's an online initiative aimed at creating a Pokemon card type resource but with real creatures on display in full “character design” wonder. Not only that - but we plan to have the scientific community weigh in to determine the content on such cards, as well as folks who love gaming to try and design interesting ways to use the cards. Then to top it all off, members of the teacher community will participate to see whether these cards have educational merit.

Ron Paul rejects your entire mana-based monetary system!

casarkos — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:03:59 -0800

Magic: The Election . Part 2. Presented in the grand tradition of Katrina: The Gathering.

Hurricane Katrina, the Card Game

blacklite — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:32:19 -0800

Katrina: The Gathering is the latest great new collectible card game!

I almost don't know how to describe it. A brilliant, concise, very complete, and quite hilarious¹ summary of the the political fallout. It just keeps going and going and going. I think I want to play a game of it.
1 - My options are laugh or cry, so.

The Game of Mao

Ironwolf — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 01:21:38 -0800

The only rule I can tell you is this one. In the vein of self-modifying games such as Nomic, 1000 Blank White Cards, Fluxx, and Cosmic Encounter, comes Mao: the game where the only way to learn the rules is by banging your head against them. Repeatedly.

24 hours of online poker

bdk3clash — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 22:03:11 -0800

Poker player plays for 24 hours in a row? Yawn. Online poker player plays eight tables simultaneously for 24 hours in a row? Interesting.

I, Raise

mrgrimm — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:53:29 -0800

Are bluffing bots outplaying human poker players online? They might not be as strong as Vex Bot, but they could spell trouble for the booming online-poker industry.

Hanafuda and Go-Stop

hama7 — Sun, 02 May 2004 08:36:43 -0800

Hanafuda, also known as Go-Stop. [more]

Recockulous — Wed, 06 Nov 2002 19:50:57 -0800

If you live in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky or Pennsylvania (“the Euchre belt”) Euchre might be a familiar pastime or at least well, familiar. The game is not exclusive to those areas but is most concentrated in the Midwest. It used to be one of the most popular card games the U.S. but lost out to bridge. Today the game has somewhat of a cult following in Midwest towns and especially on college campuses. It is a fast paced thinking game that combines st rat egy and skill with luck that can eat away hours of a person’s life. If you have never played the game I encourage you to read an introduction and try yahoo games. (I hope this is not too common to bring up, but I rarely see anyone playing online not from the states listed above.) Warning popups.

The Game of 1000 Blank White Cards.

blueshammer — Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:54:16 -0800

The Game of 1000 Blank White Cards. Yesterday's talk about Game Neverending and Nomic reminded me of this outside-the-box game that was first brought to my attention by an article in GAMES Magazine earlier this year. The game is quite simple: Before you play, you have to think up and create the cards. Create them how? What goes on them? How do you play? Anything goes. [more inside, including excerpts and more links]

Winning at Blackjack?

psychotic_venom — Wed, 14 Aug 2002 10:54:07 -0800

Winning at Blackjack? Many people claim you can. Some people do. via slashdot

mathowie — Mon, 25 Dec 2000 13:26:24 -0800

Here's a gift for all. Someone got a deceptively simple card game as a stocking stuffer. Three shapes. Three colors. Three shades. Three different numbers of objects. Put 3 things together that are completely similar or completely different, for all four variables. It's a card game that instantly sucked several of us in and felt like playing Tetris the first time. Go ahead and give it a try (note, I've been playing this for a couple hours today and I could only find 4 of the 6 possible sets).