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7: value is equal to the card played last. If a 5 was played before a 7, the 7 adds 5. If a special card was played before a 7, the 7 gets to use the powers of the card. For instance, if a 3 was played before a 7, the 7 gains the special power of a 3 so the value is 0 and the order of play is reversed. 8: value is 2. 9: value is 0.
The game was originally designed and marketed by Henry Makow in Canada in 1984, who licensed the game to Maruca Industries–Carl Eisenberg. The game took off in the United States due to a marketing program by Maruca that resulted in the game being played twice on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and featured in The Wall Street Journal along with other publications and newspapers.
The deck has one card for each named location, and drawing such a card moves a player directly to that board location. This move can be either forward or backward in the classic game. Backward moves can be ignored for younger players in the 2004 version of the game. Prior to the 2006 edition, the board had three colored spaces marked with a dot.
Happy families is a traditional British card game usually with a specially made set of picture cards, featuring illustrations of fictional families of four, most often based on occupation types. The object of the game is to collect complete families, and the game is similar to Go Fish and Quartets. [2]
Five Crowns is a card game created by Set Enterprises. [1] ( SET - PlayMonster) Players compete by trying to obtain the lowest number of points after playing all eleven hands of the game and making sets of "books and runs".
Crazy Eights is a shedding-type card game for two to seven players and the best known American member of the Eights Group which also includes Pig and Spoons. The object of the game is to be the first player to discard all of their cards. The game is similar to Switch, Mau Mau or Whot!. [1]
Forty-fives (also known as auction forty-fives, auction 120s, 120, and growl) is a trick-taking card game that originated in Ireland.The game is popular in many communities throughout Atlantic Canada (New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island) as well as the Gaspé Coast in Québec.
Cinch, also known as Double Pedro or High Five, is an American trick-taking card game of the all fours family derived from Auction Pitch via Pedro. [1] Developed in Denver, Colorado in the 1880s, [2] it was soon regarded as the most important member of the all fours family in the USA, but went out of fashion with the rise of Auction Bridge. [3]