Sunday

Jamaican Card games



Playing cards was one of my favorite pass times during the summer as a child. It was right up there with swinging from the trees and shooting birds and lizards with my slingshot. These may not be exclusively Jamaican, but I think most Jamaicans would agree that these games were well-known children's games.

You may think these games are common, but for the generation coming up these games are foreign, and if we aren't careful they will soon be forgotten,

Although the following games require a standard 52 deck card pack, not all the cards may be needed/used for each game.  I have included the rules for some of them.

If I have missed any games please feel free to jot them down here, or if you know any tricks and twists to existing games, please share.

Another interesting post on this blog is Jamaican ring games

Games

1) 3-ah-Card
2)Tief'n Cassie
3)Strip me.
4)D.O.N.K.E.Y.-1
5)D.O.N.K.E.Y.-2
6)Go Fish
7)Gin
8)Rommey
9)Tonk


Game-1
3-A Card

Rules
Each player is given 3 cards, then the dealer places one card face up. (players may look at their cards)The order of the games in voted on, whether clockwise or anticlockwise and each player takes turns in that fashion.

Each turn: If a person has a card in their hand matching the one that is face-up they would drop that card on top of the face-up card and then chose another from the other two in their hand and drop one.

This would be repeated until all cards are used up.

Each Turn: If there are no matching cards in the player's hand they would pick one from the deck, and drop it face up. The player has first dibs on the card played. If not wanted play moves to the next player until the card is desired i.e. a player has a matching card or all have refused the card. If no one has a matching card then the next player in line picks a card from the deck.

Who wins: The person who gets rid of all their cards first wins.

Game
Tief'n Cassie

Rules
All players are given 4 cards. The dealer then deals 4 cards face up. (players may look at their cards) The objective of the game is to get as many pairs as possible.

Each player takes a turn taking up cards from the ones face up with the ones in their hand. Each player can only play one card at a time to take up a pair.

Each time a pair is collected it goes to the top of the pile that the player has. The pairs must be turn face up on the pile. If player A has a matching card to the pair that was picked up by player B, player A has the right to steal all the pairs that player B has collected. (thus the name).

If a third player C has a matching card then the entire stack can be stolen from player A.i.e what player A took from player B, and then all the pairs that player A has collected.

who wins: Player with the most pairs when all 52 cards have been used wins 

Game
Strip me.

Rules
Players are evenly distributed cards, usually two players for this game. Only face cards (J,Q,K) and Aces have power.

Aces= 4 cards
K= 3 cards
Q=2cards
J=1 card

(players may not look at their cards)The players take a turn in placing a card face up until a power card is played.

On the next turn, the player pays up the power card. Unless another power card is played during payment. The previous payment is canceled and it now becomes the other player's turn to pay.

If no other power card is played, then the person who drops the last power card picks up all the other cards.

Who wins: The person retaining all the cards wins the game.

Game
1-D.O.N.K.E.Y.

Rules
Usually played with 4 people, may be played with more. (players may look at their cards) All the face cards and Aces (or other cards if more than 4 players) are removed from the pack. These become the playing cards. The whole deck is not needed for this game.

Each player is given 4 cards and the dealer starts by passing one card to the left/right.

The objective of the game is to get 4 of a kind and then drop your card as fast as the dealer or person passing the first card gets their card back.

The last person to drop gets a letter from the word "donkey"

Who wins: The person with the least amount of letters wins, and the person with all the letters in donkey loses. The other players compete for the second -third-etc places, dependent on how many players there are.

To enhance this game, I have seen where the loser gives a piggyback ride to all the players. Hence the name Donkey.

Game
2-D.O.N.K.E.Y.

Rules


Usually played with 2 players, may be more though. (players may look at their cards) A card is taken and hidden from the deck. Then all the cards are dealt to the players. Each player removes the pairs from their hand, and then take a turn to pull cards from other players hands. If a pair is achieved that pair is removed from their hand. If not the card is retained.

Who wins: The player stuck with the none matching card, get a letter out of the word "donkey." The player with the least amount of letters wins, and the player with all the letters in donkey loses. The other players compete for the second -third-etc places, dependent on how may players there are.

Game
Go Fish

Rules
Players


20 comments:

  1. Tunk
    Players: Up to 8
    Objective: The main objective of each player is to use up all of their cards.

    Rules: Each player gets five cards.Then each player must first pick up a card from the deck or the last card that is placed in a pile.

    Pile: The handful cards that each player does not need face up.

    Each player is free to pick cards from either one of those decks that they feel that they need to spread.

    Spread: Is three or more related cards. Cards can be related by the same number or sequential house.

    Once a player places a spread they must drop a card that they feel they do not need.

    Hitting: A player may add an additional card that corresponds with the spread of any other player including them self which would result in a dead spread. Hitting is a clever technique to get rid of a players cards faster.

    Dead Spread: a spread that is hit and placed face down.

    Winning: Once a player is out of cards they must recite the words, "Tunk Out".


    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Dating for everyone is here: ❤❤❤ Link 1 ❤❤❤


      Direct sexchat: ❤❤❤ Link 2 ❤❤❤

      0y...

      Delete
  2. Under Bridge: It is a stimulation in Tunk where each player has the liberty to go under the pile of faced up cards to get the card they need to form a spread.

    ReplyDelete
  3. castle:
    players-2 only
    Rules: Each player is dealt 11 cards. a hand of 7 and 4 other cards. Do not touch the deck of 4 (face down) until the end of the game. The player must then take 3 out 7 cards face up, so that 4 cards remain in the player's hand. 4 cards are always maintained in the hand.So the amount of cards that are played are also retrieved from the deck.

    The person with lowest number goes first except for action cards such as 2's,8's or 10's.

    Objective: The objective is to eliminate all 11 cards

    10's & 8's reset the deck
    2's kill the deck

    the cards are played from lowest to highest. If the player does not have a card higher than what is shown, they have to pick up the entire deck. Then they cannot pick from the deck until they have 4 cards.

    The other player plays their lowest card. If the players plays a card that resets the deck they have to put down another card.

    if a players can't play they can play an action card that resets the deck.

    after the deck is done you play until the cards in your hand are done, then you pick up the 3 cards that you placed face up at the beginning of the game.

    Then after you run out of the cards that you placed face up. you then play the 4 cards that you placed face down at the beginning of the game, but you cannot look at these cards before playing them.
    you play

    ReplyDelete
  4. Excellent article. Very interesting to read. I really love to read such a nice article. Thanks! keep rocking. shopping in barbados

    ReplyDelete
  5. This was a shocking post. It has some look at here fundamental data on this subject. 파워볼엔트리

    ReplyDelete
  6. Mind boggling posting this is from you. I am truly and genuinely excited to peruse this wonderful post. You've truly intrigued me today. I trust you'll keep on doing as such! 토토사이트

    ReplyDelete
  7. My friend recommended this blog and he was totally right keep up the fantastic work! 언오버먹튀

    ReplyDelete
  8. Thanks, continue to review my material, give comments, likes and recommendations.

    ReplyDelete
  9. it all comes down to knowing who you are playing with: catch the on-tilt player when you have the goods, use the aggressive player's tactics against him, and so forth. 안전놀이터

    ReplyDelete
  10. Thanks for sharing this information. I really like your blog post very much. You have really shared a informative and interesting blog post with people.. card games

    ReplyDelete
  11. Extraordinary message. I like to inspect this message considering I satisfied such a lot of brand-new authentic elements worrying it really. Pakarqq

    ReplyDelete
  12. As a seller of legal steroids, you can buy Crazy Bulk products, explore stacks and finally get the body you’ve always wanted solitaire card games free

    ReplyDelete
  13. This is the sad reality of playing the slots. However, with so many positive things about the slots-one of them being the jackpots, payouts, winners, and happy gamblers-there is no reason why you shouldn't try your luck and play the slots online. เครดิตฟรีไม่ต้องฝากไม่ต้องแชร์2021

    ReplyDelete
  14. I really liked your Information. Keep up the good work. Card Games

    ReplyDelete
  15. To play, a large bandwidth is required since the graphics, sounds, and animations are loaded through the web via plugins. There can also be games on a plain HTML interface. premium gambling domains

    ReplyDelete
  16. All the contents you mentioned in post is too good and can be very useful. I will keep it in mind, thanks for sharing the information keep updating, looking forward for more posts.Thanks Vloga za vizum ZDA

    ReplyDelete
  17. Dating for everyone is here: ❤❤❤ Link 1 ❤❤❤


    Direct sexchat: ❤❤❤ Link 2 ❤❤❤

    wu ..

    ReplyDelete

Jamaican Pet/Nick names

I made a post a couple of days ago about Jamaican names and someone said that I should should list the pet names of Jamaicans and those woul...