QOD Thursday 12-20 "ACCORDING TO HOYLE"

[fantine33]

"According to Hoyle" was one of my grandma's favourite sayings. We were quite the card playing family and it's kind of sad that, if it's not on tv, the computer or a game cartridge, cards have kind of fallen by the wayside for cheap entertainment and fun with family and friends. (Yes, I have played all these games and no, I didn't verify my questions with Hoyle. Ha!)

12/20 Cards

1. In the game of Pinochle, what is a pinochle?

2. Where did Canasta get its name?

3. What is the left bower in Euchre (be specific)?

4. What name is given to the up card in Cribbage if it’s a jack?

5. What is the term for three players playing a game normally played by two individuals or teams?

QOD: Not counting the dealer screwing up the cards, what two occurrences allow you to call a misdeal in Spades?

Bonus: Up until the Revolution, the French courts were always big card players (when they weren’t having sex or getting lost in Versailles). Card makers assigned the kings in each suit for a ruler. Five points for each one you can name in the standardized French deck. You don’t have to give the suits to which each man is assigned (you’re welcome, ha!).

[tlynn78]

Oh, this one is today's, not the other one I just answered. I should prolly pay better attention. Oh well, that's not gonna happen.

1.

Spoiler

Queen of spades, jack of diamonds
2. nope, except it's Spanish for 'basket'
3. the other jack the same color as the trump suit
4. we play the jack is 'nobs' - but we forget how to play each time...
5. nope


QoD - Haven't played in forever, but I think it's 'no spades' and 'no face cards'

bonus - only one I know is Kof Spades is Julius Caesar

t.

[NellyLunatic1980]

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1. In the game of Pinochle, what is a pinochle?
queen of spades, jack of diamonds

2. Where did Canasta get its name?
the Spanish word for "basket"

3. What is the left bower in Euchre (be specific)?
jack of trump

4. What name is given to the up card in Cribbage if it’s a king?
pass

5. What is the term for three players playing a game normally played by two individuals or teams?
pass

QOD: Not counting the dealer screwing up the cards, what two occurrences allow you to call a misdeal in Spades?
no spades in your hand, no face cards or aces in your hand (although some rules can allow a misdeal if a player has just one spade or one face/ace)

Bonus: Up until the Revolution, the French courts were always big card players (when they weren’t having sex or getting lost in Versailles). Card makers assigned the kings in each suit for a ruler. Five points for each one you can name in the standardized French deck. You don’t have to give the suits to which each man is assigned (you’re welcome, ha!).
Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Charlemagne, King David

[ToLiveIsToFly]

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1. In the game of Pinochle, what is a pinochle?
JACK OF DIAMONDS AND QUEEN OF SPADES

2. Where did Canasta get its name?
VARIATION OF "CESTA", WHICH IS SPANISH FOR BASKET.

3. What is the left bower in Euchre (be specific)?
THE JACK OF THE SUIT THAT'S NOT TRUMP, BUT IS THE SAME COLOR AS THE TRUMP SUIT

4. What name is given to the up card in Cribbage if it’s a king?
I DON'T KNOW OF ANY NAME GIVE TO THE KING IF IT'S THE UP CARD. DO YOU MEAN THE JACK? THAT'S CALLED "HIS HEELS". (IF IT'S N OT A JACK, AND SOMEONE HAS THE JACK OF THAT SUIT, IT'S CALLED "HIS NOBS")

5. What is the term for three players playing a game normally played by two individuals or teams?
CUTTHROAT

QOD: Not counting the dealer screwing up the cards, what two occurrences allow you to call a misdeal in Spades?
NO SPADES, 7-CARD NON-SPADES SUIT

Bonus: Up until the Revolution, the French courts were always big card players (when they weren’t having sex or getting lost in Versailles). Card makers assigned the kings in each suit for a ruler. Five points for each one you can name in the standardized French deck. You don’t have to give the suits to which each man is assigned (you’re welcome, ha!).
LOUIS XIV, HENRY VIII, WENCESLAUS AND KONG

ETA FREAKIN' SPOILER TAG AGAIN

[earendel]

"According to Hoyle" was one of my grandma's favourite sayings. We were quite the card playing family and it's kind of sad that, if it's not on tv, the computer or a game cartridge, cards have kind of fallen by the wayside for cheap entertainment and fun with family and friends. (Yes, I have played all these games and no, I didn't verify my questions with Hoyle. Ha!)

12/20 Cards

1. In the game of Pinochle, what is a pinochle?

2. Where did Canasta get its name?

3. What is the left bower in Euchre (be specific)?

4. What name is given to the up card in Cribbage if it’s a king?

5. What is the term for three players playing a game normally played by two individuals or teams?

QOD: Not counting the dealer screwing up the cards, what two occurrences allow you to call a misdeal in Spades?

Bonus: Up until the Revolution, the French courts were always big card players (when they weren’t having sex or getting lost in Versailles). Card makers assigned the kings in each suit for a ruler. Five points for each one you can name in the standardized French deck. You don’t have to give the suits to which each man is assigned (you’re welcome, ha!).

Spoiler

1. Oh, does this bring back memories...it's the jack of diamonds and the queen of spades.
2. My aunt taught me to play this game and it was a family favorite for years. The word comes from the Spanish term for "basket".
3. Although I've played it once or twice, I have no idea.
4. Hmmm...my grandfather hand-made his own cribbage boards and I inherited one from my mother. An upturned jack is called "nibs", but I don't know about the term for an upturned king. Could you possibly have this confused?
5. No idea

QoD - Not being dealt any spades, or having 7 or more cards of a particular suit (although I've never played when that was done).

Bonus: David, Charlemagne, Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great

[Catfish]

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If it's not Go Fish, War, Old Maid, Solitaire, or 52 Pickup, I'm lost, so I pass.

[tanstaafl2]

12/20 Cards

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1. In the game of Pinochle, what is a pinochle?
Jack of Diamonds/Queen of Spades

2. Where did Canasta get its name?
Spanish name of the tray that holds the cards.

3. What is the left bower in Euchre (be specific)?
The opposite of the right bower.

4. What name is given to the up card in Cribbage if it’s a king?
Mike. No, Fred?

5. What is the term for three players playing a game normally played by two individuals or teams?
I dunno

QOD: Not counting the dealer screwing up the cards, what two occurrences allow you to call a misdeal in Spades?
I dunno

Bonus: Up until the Revolution, the French courts were always big card players (when they weren’t having sex or getting lost in Versailles). Card makers assigned the kings in each suit for a ruler. Five points for each one you can name in the standardized French deck. You don’t have to give the suits to which each man is assigned (you’re welcome, ha!)
NAC! Charlemagne, Henry I, Louis XIV and I dunno, Phillip I?

[andrewjackson]

Spoiler

1. Jack of Diamonds and the Queen of Spades

2. Canasta means "basket" in Spanish. Canasta is of South American origin hence the name. The term is used to refer to the typically sets of seven cards of the same number or suit depending on the variation of Canasta that you form in the game.

3. It is the Jack of the same color but different suit than the trump suit. It is the 2nd highest ranking trump card in most versions of Euchre that I have played. If Spades is trump, the Jack of Clubs is the left bower.

4. King? I don't know. A Jack that is turned up is "His heels" or "His nibs" as opposed to "His nobs" for a Jack that is the same suit as the starter but I don't know what to call a King that is turned up. Possibly there are local variations on this. I'll say "his heels", final answer.

5. Three-handed? I can't think of a different term. Three-handed, final answer.

QOD: I'm thinking these might be local rules but
1. No spades in your hand
2. More than six cards of any suit

Bonus:
Charlemagne
Julius Caesar
David
Alexander the Great

I love cards. My family plays all of these.

[kayrharris]

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1. Never played it
2. Dunno
3. Are you kidding me??
4. aykm again?? How about "your majesty"?
5. dunno

QOD - nfc
Bonus - nope

[trevor_macfee]

Spoiler

. Ace of Spades

2. nope

3. King of Clubs

4.

5. 3-handed???

QOD: No spades is one, I'll guess and say no face cards is the other

Bonus: Louis XIV, Louis XVI

Edited to fix broken spoiler

[peacock2121]

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1. In the game of Pinochle, what is a pinochle? Jack of Diamonds and Queen of Spades

2. Where did Canasta get its name? not a clue

3. What is the left bower in Euchre (be specific)? hell if I know

4. What name is given to the up card in Cribbage if it’s a king? crap this is really bad

5. What is the term for three players playing a game normally played by two individuals or teams? it just gets worse and worse

QOD: Not counting the dealer screwing up the cards, what two occurrences allow you to call a misdeal in Spades? If I have no spades or if I have no 10's, Jacks, Queens or Kings, I think. Not much to lose here, you know.

Bonus: Up until the Revolution, the French courts were always big card players (when they weren’t having sex or getting lost in Versailles). Card makers assigned the kings in each suit for a ruler. Five points for each one you can name in the standardized French deck. You don’t have to give the suits to which each man is assigned (you’re welcome, ha!).

Louis the 14th, Julius Ceasar, Charlamange (however the heck you spell it) and Henry the fifth

This was really bad.

[peacock2121]

Spoiler

I adore kay and catfish

That is all

[mrkelley23]

"According to Hoyle" was one of my grandma's favourite sayings. We were quite the card playing family and it's kind of sad that, if it's not on tv, the computer or a game cartridge, cards have kind of fallen by the wayside for cheap entertainment and fun with family and friends. (Yes, I have played all these games and no, I didn't verify my questions with Hoyle. Ha!)

12/20 Cards

1. In the game of Pinochle, what is a pinochle?

2. Where did Canasta get its name?

3. What is the left bower in Euchre (be specific)?

4. What name is given to the up card in Cribbage if it’s a king?

5. What is the term for three players playing a game normally played by two individuals or teams?

QOD: Not counting the dealer screwing up the cards, what two occurrences allow you to call a misdeal in Spades?

Bonus: Up until the Revolution, the French courts were always big card players (when they weren’t having sex or getting lost in Versailles). Card makers assigned the kings in each suit for a ruler. Five points for each one you can name in the standardized French deck. You don’t have to give the suits to which each man is assigned (you’re welcome, ha!).

Spoiler

1. Jack of Diamonds and queen of spades
2. Spanish for basket, but beyond that I don't know
3. Left bower is the jack of the same color, but not the same suit, as whatever trump is that round. (We learned it as "bauer," pronounced bar, since we pronounce Washington Worshington.) We meaning Hoosiers of the deep southern ilk. BTW, if you look up the game Clabber in Hoyle, he credits my town with having invented it. It's kind of backward pinochle. And it's still played regularly around here.)
4. Never played Cribbage. Guess hammer. Never leave anything blank when there's no penalty.
5. Cutthroat

QOD: No spades, or at least 7 cards in one non-spade suit.

Bonus: Again, no penalty, so blind guessing rules! King Louis XIV, Charlemagne, Henry IV, and Phillip IV.

[themanintheseersuckersuit]

Spoiler

1. In the game of Pinochle, what is a pinochle? Nope

2. Where did Canasta get its name? Sigh, TIOKBNF, Things I Once Knew But Not Forgot

3. What is the left bower in Euchre (be specific)? Nope

4. What name is given to the up card in Cribbage if it’s a king? Nope

5. What is the term for three players playing a game normally played by two individuals or teams? Short Handed

QOD: Not counting the dealer screwing up the cards, what two occurrences allow you to call a misdeal in Spades?

Bonus: Up until the Revolution, the French courts were always big card players (when they weren’t having sex or getting lost in Versailles). Card makers assigned the kings in each suit for a ruler. Five points for each one you can name in the standardized French deck. You don’t have to give the suits to which each man is assigned (you’re welcome, ha!).

J. Cesar, Alexander the Great,

[AnnieCamaro]

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I've never played cards, except for solitaire on my laptop, because I can't figure out any way to hold the cards except in my mouth, and then I can't see them.

1. In the game of Pinochle, what is a pinochle?
It's like Freddie Kreuger, except with pins in your knuckles instead of knives in your fingernails.

2. Where did Canasta get its name?
I think it's the Canadian end of a trade agreement with Mexico, which causes a lot of truck traffic on I-35.

3. What is the left bower in Euchre (be specific)?
Is that when Japanese businessmen bend over to each other to show their respect, and they keep going up and down until one of them gets tired, and stands up, so the other guy is left bowing?

4. What name is given to the up card in Cribbage if it’s a king?
Let's just call it Bob.

5. What is the term for three players playing a game normally played by two individuals or teams?
A good game messed up by a buttinski.

QOD: Not counting the dealer screwing up the cards, what two occurrences allow you to call a misdeal in Spades?

Bonus: Up until the Revolution, the French courts were always big card players (when they weren’t having sex or getting lost in Versailles). Card makers assigned the kings in each suit for a ruler.
I read this on the internet once, but I don't remember it very well. I think Mr. Alexander the Great was one, and maybe Julius Caesar was another.

[earendel]

I've never played cards, except for solitaire on my laptop, because I can't figure out any way to hold the cards except in my mouth, and then I can't see them.

Miss Annie, how do those four-footers in the famous painting "Dogs Playing Poker" hold their cards?

[ne1410s]

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12/20 Cards

1. In the game of Pinochle, what is a pinochle? I don't know

2. Where did Canasta get its name? Spanish for "basket"

3. What is the left bower in Euchre (be specific)? Jack of Hearts

4. What name is given to the up card in Cribbage if it’s a king? I don't know

5. What is the term for three players playing a game normally played by two individuals or teams? Menage a trois

QOD: Not counting the dealer screwing up the cards, what two occurrences allow you to call a misdeal in Spades? I don't know

Bonus: Up until the Revolution, the French courts were always big card players (when they weren’t having sex or getting lost in Versailles). Card makers assigned the kings in each suit for a ruler. Five points for each one you can name in the standardized French deck. You don’t have to give the suits to which each man is assigned (you’re welcome, ha!).

Louis XIV
Alex the Great

The king of diamonds has but one eye visible---OMG!!!!

[AnnieCamaro]

Miss Annie, how do those four-footers in the famous painting "Dogs Playing Poker" hold their cards?

I can't figure it out. I'm starting to think that the artist didn't use real dogs for models.

[peacock2121]

The king of diamonds has but one eye visible---OMG!!!!

LOL - made me laugh.

Glad it can make you laugh as well.

[T_Bone0806]

"According to Hoyle" was one of my grandma's favourite sayings. We were quite the card playing family and it's kind of sad that, if it's not on tv, the computer or a game cartridge, cards have kind of fallen by the wayside for cheap entertainment and fun with family and friends. (Yes, I have played all these games and no, I didn't verify my questions with Hoyle. Ha!)

12/20 Cards

1. In the game of Pinochle, what is a pinochle? SOMEONE WITH REALLY BAD AIM AT THE URINAL

2. Where did Canasta get its name? FROM ITS MOMMY AND DADDY

3. What is the left bower in Euchre (be specific)? THE GUY YOU AIM YOUR PISTOL AT IF YOU LOSE

4. What name is given to the up card in Cribbage if it’s a king?
GEORGE

5. What is the term for three players playing a game normally played by two individuals or teams?
A JENNA JAMISON MOVIE

QOD: Not counting the dealer screwing up the cards, what two occurrences allow you to call a misdeal in Spades?
A SUPREME COURT ORDER, AND YELLING OUT "TAP TAP ON RUBBER HEELS, NO CHANGIES"

Bonus: Up until the Revolution, the French courts were always big card players (when they weren’t having sex or getting lost in Versailles). Card makers assigned the kings in each suit for a ruler. Five points for each one you can name in the standardized French deck. You don’t have to give the suits to which each man is assigned (you’re welcome, ha!).ALAN, LARRY, BB, AND AL (He's the King) HIRT

As you can see, correct answers were not in the cards today.

[mikehardware]

Spoiler

2. Spanish for basket?

[KillerTomato]

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WOOOHOO!! Every time my family gets together (like this weekend, f'rinstance), the cards get broken out. Generally, we're a pinochle family (usually, 5 players playing with 2 pinochle decks), but if there's enough interest, it's hearts, spades, or 66, and if there's not enough, it's euchre. My folks taught me bridge, but I suck at it. I used to play a guy I used to work with in cribbage all the time; and of course, I'm a poker player from wayyyyyy back. But as for canasta, not so much....

1. Melding a queen of spades and jack of diamonds. It's worth 4, but if you have both of them, you get 40.

2. No clue. It's close to the Italian word for Chestnuts (castagna), so I'll go with that.

3. The right bower is the jack of trumps, and the left is the jack of the same-colored suit as trumps (so if trumps are spades, the jack of clubs would be the left bower).

4. OK, this is confusing. I don't know of any name for a turned king. A turned jack is called "his nibs" (not to be confused with "his nobs," which is a non-turned jack of the same suit as the turned card. But I got nuthin' for the king.

5. We call it "cutthroat," but that's likely not what you're going for. Still, it's all I got.

QOD: A player can call a misdeal if he holds no spades at all, or if he has 7 cards all of one suit that's not spades.

Bonus: Charlemagne is one. Alex T. Great is another. And I think Julius Caesar is a third. I don't remember the fourth. And thanks for not asking the suits!

[fantine33]

Of course it's supposed to be the jack for the cribbage question. I must have had kings on the brain from the bonus question, I'm such a dork. Ha!

I'm not too worried about this one, as anybody who knew enough about cribbage to be able to answer the question in the first place noted the WTF? of it all.

[a1mamacat]

"According to Hoyle" was one of my grandma's favourite sayings. We were quite the card playing family and it's kind of sad that, if it's not on tv, the computer or a game cartridge, cards have kind of fallen by the wayside for cheap entertainment and fun with family and friends. (Yes, I have played all these games and no, I didn't verify my questions with Hoyle. Ha!)

Spoiler

12/20 Cards

1. In the game of Pinochle, what is a pinochle? It is the part of a man that got splashed cuz he waznt watching his aim.

2. Where did Canasta get its name? from it's parents

3. What is the left bower in Euchre (be specific)? HA! the Left bower is the Jack of the same color but different suit of the suit that is Trump.

4. What name is given to the up card in Cribbage if it’s a jack? not too positive, but dealer gets to peg two points for the cut, so the peg card?

5. What is the term for three players playing a game normally played by two individuals or teams? cheap?

QOD: Not counting the dealer screwing up the cards, what two occurrences allow you to call a misdeal in Spades? I know one, but not two, so I won't risk my cheap points above LOL

Bonus: Up until the Revolution, the French courts were always big card players (when they weren’t having sex or getting lost in Versailles). Card makers assigned the kings in each suit for a ruler. Five points for each one you can name in the standardized French deck. You don’t have to give the suits to which each man is assigned (you’re welcome, ha!).
Thank you. Caesar, Charlemagne, Peter the Great and Suliman the great. (Well I can guess can't I? These are free shots!)

[kayrharris]

peacock2121 said

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I adore kay and catfish

That is all

Thank you.