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Super Quiz: Card games

By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Posted: January 24, 2013 at 2:43 a.m.

  1. LITTLE ROCK — A board and pegs are used to record who scores 61 or 121 points first.

  2. For safety’s sake, do not use forks or knives as substitutes in this game.

  3. Derived from whist, the hand opposite the declarer is played as a dummy.

  4. Casino game in which players try to get a hand whose points total nearer to 21 without exceeding 21.

  5. Players avoid winning tricks containing hearts or the queen of spades.

  6. The “dealer” throws the entire deck into the air so the cards land strewn on the floor.

  7. The winner is the player who holds two or three cards totaling closest to nine.

  8. Each player is dealt five cards, and the player making trump must take three tricks to win a hand.

  9. Its name is derived from the military designation for discharge of mentally unstable soldiers, Section 8.

Answers

  1. Cribbage

  2. Spoons

  3. Bridge

  4. Blackjack

  5. Hearts

  6. 52 Pickup

  7. Baccarat

  8. Euchre

  9. Crazy Eights

Weekend, Pages 39 on 01/24/2013

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