card games for two?

Question

i am going to my grandpa's and i get realy board there any suggestions for card games?

tell me how to play these games too plz

Answer 1

I played 1) War and 2) Old Maid for hours with my brothers during road trips. I played 3) Double Solitaire and Crazy Eights long wintry afternoons as well.

1) *War for two players*
In the basic game there are two players and you use a standard 52 card pack. Cards rank as usual from high to low: A K Q J T 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2. Suits are ignored in this game.

Deal out all the cards, so that each player has 26. Players do not look at their cards, but keep them in a packet face down. The object of the game is to win all the cards.

Both players now turn their top card face up and put them on the table. Whoever turned the higher card takes both cards and adds them (face down) to the bottom of their packet. Then both players turn up their next card and so on.

If the turned up cards are equal there is a war. The tied cards stay on the table and both players play the next card of their pile face down and then another card face-up. Whoever has the higher of the new face-up cards wins the war and adds all six cards face-down to the bottom of their packet. If the new face-up cards are equal as well, the war continues: each player puts another card face-down and one face-up. The war goes on like this as long as the face-up cards continue to be equal. As soon as they are different the player of the higher card wins all the cards in the war.

The game continues until one player has all the cards and wins. This can take a long time.

Most descriptions of War are not clear about what happens if a player runs out of cards during a war. There are at least two possibilities:

If you don't have enough cards to complete the war, you lose. If neither player has enough cards, the one who runs out first loses. If both run out simultaneously, it's a draw. Example: Players A and B both play sevens, so there is a war. Each player plays a card face down, but this is player B's last card. Player A wins, since player B does not have enough cards to fight the war.

If you run out of cards during a war, your last card is turned face up and is used for all battles in that war. If this happens to both players in a war and their last cards are equal, the game is a draw. Example: Players A and B both play sevens, so there is a war. Player A plays a card face down, but player B has only one card, so it must be played face up. It is a queen. Player A plays a card face up and it is also a queen, so the war must continue. Player B's queen stays (B's last card) while player A plays a card face dowmn and one face up, which is a nine. Player B wins the war and takes all these seven cards (the five cards that A played and the two cards that B played) and the game continues normally.
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2) *Old Maid*

This children's game can be played by two or more players. From a standard 52 card pack remove one queen leaving 51 cards. Deal and play are clockwise.

The dealer deals out all the cards to the players (generally some will have one more card than others - this does not matter). The players all look at their cards and discard any pairs they have (a pair is two cards of equal rank, such as two sevens or two kings).

The dealer begins. At your turn you must offer your cards spread face down to the player to your left. That player selects a card from your hand without seeing it, and adds it to her hand. If it makes a pair in her hand she discards the pair. The player who just took a card then offers her hand to the next player to her left, and so on.

If you get rid of all your cards you are safe - the turn passes to the next player and you take no further part. Eventually all the cards will have been discarded except one queen (the old maid) and the holder of this queen loses.

Old Maid is sometimes played with a special pack of cards: all the cards come in matching pairs except for a single Old Maid card, whose holder at the end is the loser.
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3)*Double Solitaire*

This is a competitive version of Klondike patience (solitaire). Each of the two players plays with their own 52-card pack. The backs of the cards should be different so that they can be sorted out after the game.

Each player deals a layout as for Klondike: 28 cards in 7 piles, each having the top card face up and the rest face down. The left hand pile has just one card, the second two, and so on, the right hand pile having seven cards. Between the two rows of 7 piles is space for eight foundation piles, which can be played on by either player. Each player begins with a stack of 24 face-down cards.

The player with the lower card on their one-pile starts - or in case of a tie whoever has the lower card on their two-pile and so on.

At your turn you can make a series of moves as in Klondike. You may move cards around on your own layout, move cards onto the foundation piles when they fit, and move cards from your discard pile to your layout or the foundations. You are not allowed to play onto or use your opponent's layout or discard pile. You end your turn when you cannot or choose not to make any other moves by turning over the top card of your face-down stack, and placing it on your face-up discard pile. Your opponent then plays.

The game ends when one player has played all the cards to the foundation piles, or when both players are blocked, in which case the winner is the player who has played more cards to the foundation piles.
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4) *Crazy Eights*

Crazy Eights is a game for two or more players, in which the object is to get rid of the cards in your hand onto a discard pile by matching the number or suit of the previous discard.

There is a huge number of variations of this game, and many alternative names. It is sometimes called Crates, Switch, Swedish Rummy, Last One or Rockaway.

Basic Game
The basic game of Crazy Eights uses a standard 52 card pack, or two such packs shuffled together if there are a lot of players. The dealer deals (singly) five cards to each player (seven each if there are only two players). The undealt stock is placed face down on the table, and the top card of the stock is turned face up and placed beside the stock to start the discard pile.

Starting with the player to dealer's left, and continuing clockwise, each player in turn must either play a legal card face up on top of the discard pile, or draw a card from the undealt stock. The following plays are legal:

if the top card of the discard pile is not an eight, you may play any card which matches the rank or suit of the previous card (for example if the top card was the king of hearts you could play any king or any heart); an eight may be played on any card, and the player of the eight must nominate a suit, which must be played next; if an eight is on top of the pile, you may play any card of the suit nominated by the person who played the eight.

The first player who gets rid of all their cards wins, and the other players score penalty points according to the cards they have left in their hands - 50 for an eight, 10 for a picture, and spot cards at face value (one point for an ace, two for a two and so on).

Variations
Crazy Eights is one of the easiest games to elaborate by adding variations, and is rarely played in its basic form. There are variations in the number of cards dealt, the rules about drawing cards and the scoring system. Usually, special meanings are given to particular cards; when played these cards affect the sequence of play, or have other effects.

Drawing Cards
In the normal game, you may always use your turn to draw a card. However, some people play that you may only draw if you are unable to play - if you can play you must.

Some allow the drawn card to be played immediately if it is a legal play.

Some allow more than one card to be drawn - either up to a fixed number of cards, after which if you still cannot (or will not) play the turn passes to the next player. Others require you to continue drawing until you can play.

Last Card
There may be a rule that you must alert the other players when you have just one card left. If you fail to do so you must draw cards (usually two) from the stock as a penalty.


Change suit
Traditionally an eight can be played at any time and the player can nominate any suit. Some play that you can only play an eight that matches (either the same suit or another eight). Some play that you can play an eight at any time but cannot nominate another suit - the next player must match the suit of the eight you played or play another eight. Szu Kay Wong suggests that you can play an eight at any time, but can only nominate a different suit if the eight matches the rank or suit of the previous card. Some players use jacks or aces rather than eights as the cards which have the power to change suit.

Skip
Some play that when a queen (or some other designated rank) is played, the next player in rotation misses a turn, and the turn passes to the following player.

Reverse direction
Some play that when an ace (or some other designated rank) is played, the direction of play reverses, becoming anticlockwise if it had been clockwise, or vice versa.

Draw cards
Some play that when a two is played the next player must either draw two cards or play another two. If several consecutive twos have been played the next player must either play another two or draw two cards for each two in the sequence.
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Have fun!!

Answer 2

Ticket to Ride plays very well with two players, and it works very well as a get-together game for up to five players. It's one of those games that is very easy to learn, but you can come up with some nice strategies. In the game you race to connect cities together with trains, and there are versions with maps of America, Europe, and I believe Germany. Jenga works well with two players as well - it's the game where you have a tower of blocks and you try to slide blocks out without knocking down the tower. I've enjoyed the card game Race for the Galaxy, it's a bit more complex than these two but not much more so. It has a classic golden age science fiction feel, and like the previous two games works well for two players but scales up well to a couple more if you have some friends over. Don't forget old classics like Backgammon or chess.

Answer 3

2 player spades is easy and fun to play.

Shuffle a regular card deck with or without jokers. Place the deck between both players. Determine who goes first.

The game uses the same rules as regular spades.

Player 1 draws a card and decides if he wants to keep it. If kept the next card on the deck goes into a discard pile without looking at it. If the player chooses not to keep the card, then he must keep the next card on the deck.

After player 1 has chosen their card, then player 2 repeats the process. Drawing the top card and deciding if he wants to keep it or discard it.

Once both players have alternated drawing cards, they should each have 13 cards. Each player should bid their hands and then play. Points are kept the same as regualr spades (10 points per trick , and -10 pre trick for missing bid.)

Answer 4

Cribbage. Honeymoon Bridge. Also, you can always go out and buy a card game book. These will list tons of card games and will often conveniently tell you how many players they are for. It's fun to find some obscure card game, figure it out and then play it for a while. If it's a crappy one, try a new one. If it's a good one, you've got a good two-player game for the rest of your life. Enjoy!

Answer 5

UNO...poker cards.

I suggest you and ur grandpa play UNO! UNO is the best family played game. I love to play UNO cos it is fun. I always play with my grandpa. You can buy UNO back and it is quite expensive if u buy the original one.

Here is the website which you can get to know more about UNO:
http://www.mattelgamefinder.com/overview.asp?redirectID=uno

Answer 6

For two-player card games, my favorites are Cribbage and Gin Rummy. Check out the link below for rules.

Answer 7

Rummey, Crazy Eights, Go Fish, Uno...

Answer 8

Try Uno...Instructions included in pack

Answer 9

Speed, thats my all time favorite game. Or egyptian rat screw.

Answer 10

http://cardgamesfortwo.com/

Answer 11

war, solitaire for one or two.