Civil War cards

[MassVOL]

Re: Period Card Games

You sir are most certainly correct...Chuck-a-Luck is a dice game, and I knew that, and still managed to exhibit brain flatulence when I wrote that post. Despite the rumors, I am not a complete idiot. Sorry, for that.

Is that the game with the six playing cards representing 1-6 on a die lay your money down and claim the die roll or is that another game?

[Possum Skinner]

Re: Period Card Games

You sir are most certainly correct...Chuck-a-Luck is a dice game, and I knew that, and still managed to exhibit brain flatulence when I wrote that post. Despite the rumors, I am not a complete idiot. Sorry, for that.

[D F Smith Historic]

Re: Period Card Games

Hi All,

A couple of great games that were popular and non gambling are Uker (sp?)
and Cribbage.

My all time favorite is Cribbage. Before I moved to Louisiana. My brother Tom (signs on as "tomarch" on the AC) and I played every Tuesday with our Dad. We try to get up a game or two at events when we are at the same event.

A good many Cribbage boards have been dug in camps in all theaters.


Hope this helps,

Don Smith

Re: Period Card Games

Chuck-A-Luck is a dice game.

In fact we are going to open "O. P.'s and I. P.'s Chuck-A_Luck Emporium" this week end at our spring drill. I hpe I can get some guys to play rather than just sit around.

Thanks,
Mark C. Foster
AKA - I. P. Barnard

[Possum Skinner]

Re: Period Card Games

Let us not forget Faro and Chuck-a-luck. These card games of chance are well documented as gamblers favorites.

Re: Period Card Games

Eallo!

Here are a couple nifty websites on the subject...

http://www.davidparlett.co.uk/histocs/index.html

http://jducoeur.org/game-hist/game-rules.html#card

http://www.pagat.com/whist/whist.html

I am in earnest,

[KKS]

Re: Period Card Games

From John Billings's 1887 memoir "Hardtack and Coffee":
"Besides letter-writing the various games of cards were freely engaged in. Many men played for money. Cribbage and euchre were favorite games" (65).

Does anyone have a source for a period-correct cribbage board?

Kira Sanscrainte

[va-yank]

Re: Period Card Games

We usually do whist. A very simple form of bridge with two pairs of players. There a several web sites with rules and strategy explained. But do not know if any of that has changed since the period.

General rule number one in cards, keep your cards hidden. From the officers.

[pvtRB_4thOVI]

Re: Period Card Games

Wasn't poker a pretty popular means of gambling/card playing??

[Silas]

Here's a couple trump games with partners ...

Whist and euchre. I learned whist from my extended relations in Minnesota. Whist is something people did before TV came along. Been reading Hornblower of late, and whist is frequently mentioned.

Been playing euchre on my palm pilot lately. It's fast moving, and there's a great deal of strategy. Basic play is pretty easy once you understand the trump concept.

[poncho]

Comrades,
I have been trying to do some research on card games from the period and haven't been coming up with very much. There is an article on this forum about gambling games but I haven't found anything about card games specifically not related to gambling. For instance, was gin rummy around in the period? I don't want to show up at an event and start playing a game that is 30 years removed from the period. Is there any where I can be directed to find the proper info? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You