Cards

yes ... but only on holiday!

I also like cards at Christmas , my favourite is Newmarket , I suppose board games have taken their place .

Ooh, I used to love Newmarket - haven't played it for years.

Well start at Christmas , they might enjoy

I used to play cribbage with my mother but I have no one to play it with now as Mr absent isn't interested. We don't play any card games but do occasionally have the odd session of backgammon or chess.

I like to play rummy with my youngest grandson - but when he loses he always wants to play something else!

Mine too ! we have also got an old "Shove Halfpenny" board which was DH "s dads , which they love as well .

Oooh yes. Newmarket, Racing Demon - love'em.

When on holiday camping we used to play a lot of crib and in fact we had a game against the children on Chr******mas Day and they moaned when DH and I won.

Absent; how strange...I've been sorting out books with a view to actually throwing some away; they've been in a bin next to my desk and I'd just decided not to throw them away but take them up to Barter Books at Alnwick [so they can do the throwing out if they feel the book will not find a new home] and, next to me as I type is a book called 'All About Cribbage' by Douglas Anderson. It's quite a sweet little book, and is now going back on the shelf. The game itself looks far too complicated for me. I'm wondering if card games are due to make a comeback? It's something I used to enjoy but haven't done for many a year.

Hubby and I played crib a lot many years ago, but can`t remember how to play now. We don`t play cards as often as we used to, but when we do it tends to be Nomination.

Solitaire sigh

OH totally disinterested as are offspring.

My mum was a smart player of cribbage having been taught by a much older brother when she was quite a young child. The game is rather more complex and subtle than it seems at first. In her last years, living in our house, she still enjoyed a game with me. A dear friend had bought large-print cards to enable her to see what she had in her hand, but she simply lost the plot. I always did the scoring and I remember several occasions when I pegged my scores backwards so that she would have the pleasure of winning – and she still lost. But thanks Mum, for teaching me the game.

I still have my Dad's old cribbage board with the little pegs tucked into a compartment at one end. He and I used to play a lot and now my son(aged 50) plays quite a lot.

I did teach my first husband to pay cribbage or maybe he already knew – it was a long time ago. We took a cribbage board and pack of cards with us when holidaying on a Greek Island. It is a unique card game and absolutely fascinated everyone who saw us playing.

I used to play Bézique as well and I think I still have a pack of Bézique cards somewhere. I don't know anyone else who plays.

I'd love to learn to play bridge.

Me too Old John but lessons are hugely expensive. Dear OH promised to teach me but I am still waiting ...................

Mrshat there's a site called acbl which teaches the basics for free but local bridge clubs here don't welcome beginners

Thanks Oldjohn, I'll have a look once I've settled back into routine

DH always refused to teach me to play cribbage - he said I'd never pick it up (he's very good); but a friend taught me and now I'm pretty good. I taught my son in law to play last year. We used to play cards with friends a lot when we were younger - whist (whatever happened to whist drives?), Newmarket, chase the ace - but the only time we play now is at Christmas. We play Donkey and Happy Families with our 5 year old though !

Yes, I'd like to learn to play bridge.What is the name of the female journalist who is now a top bridge player?

OUr U3A has several bridge groups so might be worth a look

For some reason my parents and both grandparents houses contained cribbage boards and as a small child, not having the slightest idea what it was or what it was for, I became convinced that it was something arcane that all married couples got given when they got married and was a necessary part of any marital home.

My parents and maternal grandmother never played cribbage so why they had cribbage boards heaven knows. In my mid teens I spent some of my school holidays with my paternal grandparents and discovered that part of their pre-bedtime routine was a hot drink and a round or two of cribbage. Meanwhile I now possess my parents cribbage board - and I cant play it either.

I love playing cards,especially crib/cribbage. I think cards are great for either being a thinking game such as crib or fun such as chase the ace. Does require a 'glass of something' to make it a sociable time, that's why a holiday game is a must. Hubby loves cards too so I guess that does make a big difference.

I love dominoes too but I am rubbish at darts or pool anything that requires a good eye.

I used to play cribbage and bezique when my ex was around and I can't remember how to play either!