#fun games to play

[jayjtheunsispiciousmelodicathem]

FUN CARD GAMES TIME:

Q♠ Bezique J♦

The object of the game is to get 1000 points (or another, previously agreed upon value). Points are gained by melding cards into combinations, as well as winning the last trick, gathering tens and aces, and for the trump sevens. The game is primarily for two players, but more players can play.

To play you'll need:

two (or more, more on that later) standard poker decks with cards 2-6 removed (or two piquet decks) for a total of 64 cards

a pen and paper to track the score (if you're lucky to find it or have the ability to make it yourself, you can use dedicated score tracking boards with pegs)

The Deal

Having shuffled the cards, cut it and draw to see who's the first dealer - lower ranked card deals first, in case of a tie, draw again until the tie is broken. The ranking, universal for the entire game, is, high to low: A 10 K Q J 9 8 7. Dealer duty alternates in the following hands.

Deal eight cards in packets of 3, 2 and then 3 again to both players. Reveal the 17th card, and stick it under the remaining cards. This card determines the trump suit for the hand. The remaining cards form the stock or talon, from which the players will draw cards after each trick.

If the revealed card is a seven, the dealer gets ten points on the spot.

The Play

Phase One

The non-dealer goes first. They lead any card they like to a trick. The other player plays any card they like as well. There is no obligation to follow suit, trump, or overtake the trick in this phase. The player who played the highest card that follows the suit led, or played a higher trump, wins the trick and leads to the next one.

The winner of the trick collects the two played cards, and places them face-down on a pile close to themselves. Immediately after taking the trick, its winner can declare a meld, if they hold one in their hand. Once they do, decide not to, or if they just can't make a valid meld, they draw a card from the talon, and the other player draws too.

If a trump seven is played at any time, the player who did so scores 10 points. If both players play the exact same card (e.g. two sevens of spades), the card that was played first wins the trick.

Melds and Melding

As said, the winner of a trick has the opportunity to declare a meld. When they do so, they immediately score the points, and lay out the cards on the table. Those cards remain part of their player's hand, and can be played at any moment. They remain on the table until the end of phase one, or until they're all played to tricks. Only one meld can be declared at a time (although some players allow multiple).

The melds are:

Bezique (Q♠J♦) - 40pts

Double Bezique (Q♠J♦Q♠J♦) - 500pts

Trump Sequence (A 10 K Q J of trumps) - 250pts

Marriage (K and Q of the same non-trump suit) - 20pts

Royal Marriage (K and Q of trumps) - 40pts

Four Aces - 100pts

Four Kings - 80pts

Four Queens - 60pts

Four Jacks - 40pts

Seven of Trumps switch - 10pts and exchange the card for the card stuck under the talon, as long as it isn't a trump seven as well.

Cards that have already been melded, can be used to form another meld under two conditions:

The cards cannot make another meld of the same type

The cards cannot make a meld of inferior value to their previous meld

Basically, if you declared a marriage, the melded king and queen can't form another marriage, even if you hold another king, or another queen of suits, but you can use them to declare four kings, four queens, bezique, double bezique (of the queen is of the right suit) or trump sequence (if they're of the trump suit).

But if you declare four kings, four queens etc with them first, you cannot use them to meld a marriage.

Note: some players allow for re-melding cards in lower-ranked combinations, as long as the category is different. Note 2: Double bezique is a different meld category than single bezique. You can safely declare double bezique after declaring single bezique, as long as the previous bezique remains unbroken in your melded cards. Note 3: in the "fours". the suits may repeat.

Phase Two

Once the talon runs out, all melded cards return to their players' hands. Now the players have to follow suit and win the trick if possible - this includes trumping in case they don't have a card to follow suit. If both players play the exact same card (e.g. two sevens of spades), the card that was played first wins the trick, but in this phase it happens only out of necessity.

Playing a trump 7 does not give you points anymore. You cannot meld anymore. You only get points for the last trick.

Brisques

The tens and aces are worth 10 points each, no matter the phase of game. Usually you count how many of them you captured after finishing phase two, but some players score points for them as they go, which speeds up the game a bit.

Next Deal: the next player gathers the cards, shuffles them, offers the cut, and deals.

3 players

If you want more players to join in on the fun, you'll need another 32 cards shuffled into your deck. Each player gets 8 cards as earlier, each plays for themselves, and the only major difference is the existence of the triple bezique, scored at 1500 points. Game lasts until 1500 or 2000 points. According to the descriptions I've read, 4 players can play, but the descriptions disagree on how they can play (some descriptions ask for four decks, others for three, some add another degree of bezique, the final values are also incinsistent).

[mintaii]

so all i've been doing is playing hades 2

[catacini]

it's so beethover / we're so bach

[ibahibut]

🐦‍⬛: I'm fine..

💀: Stay still

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Happy one year anniversary to In Stars and Time!

[redsray]

I love the idea of the Wayne kids dropping extremely vague and disturbing comments during galas. Especially when in uncomfortable situations or if they're just bored. They pull out things from their nightlife too. Other times they just make shit up.

Socialite: Oh, dear, your cheeks look so sullen! Who sucked the life out of you?

Tim, dead serious: An old man with a goatee.

Socialite: Uh... what?

Dick: Once I broke my knee so badly that I swear I could see part of the bone sticking out.

Socialite: Good lord. How on earth did that happen?

Dick: Just clumsy gymnast things ^^

Socialite: The white streak is certainly a bold fashion choice.

Jason: I saw someone get decapitated once, so I could be doing worse in terms of what's on my head, yknow? At least I have one.

Socialite: What's your favourite colour, sweetie?

Damian: Red.

Socialite: Oh that's lovely!

Damian: Like the blood of my enemies.

Socialite: Oh.

Socialite: You must be new to these kind of events.

Duke: Uh, yeah, they're kind of scary. But I've had worse.

Socialite: Worse.

Duke: Well I've been left on top of a skyscraper before with no way down just to 'get over my fear of heights' so, yes.

Socialite: You don't talk very loud, do you? I can barely hear you.

Cass, with a straight face: If I spoke any louder every glass in the room would shatter.

Tim, behind her: I can vouch.

[spacey-xannabelle]

I realize I seem to have some sort of pattern when it comes to indie games I consume ffghbdf

Bonus:

[chloesimaginationthings]

This could be a kart if FLAF wasn't fucking around..

[ruporas]

trigunned the hades or hadesed the trigun (id in alt)

[velvetw0rmz]

Lamb and goat!

[o0kawaii0o]

Ace Attorney x Hades

[lazylittledragon]

y'know every time i feel guilty about bothering someone by singing along when i'm listening to music, i just remember that i have to tolerate my dirtbag brother screaming at his ps5 for hours every day so listening to muffled off-key fall out boy is probably preferable

[the-phantom-peach]

🗣️ I like drawing pretty boys in green tunics

[glassrooibos]

FABIAN DON’T DO THAT. THAT’S SCARY.

[araneapeixes]

happy dragon age month, i miss my homies so I doodled them in some simple camp clothes (bc im bg3pilled)

[bixels]

In the past, people in the Animal Crossing community would make fun of Tom Nook as a sleazy landlord. Since then, he's really rehabilitated his image as this 'heart of gold' businessman (he's the one who puts bells and furniture in trees for you to find! he adopted orphans! he donates to charity!), but New Horizons genuinely paints the most devious version of him.

He's successfully privatized settler colonialism: you pay HIM to move to a "deserted island" (which apparently the oceans in the AC world are just full of) and start a colony that he is directly invested in. At best he's running a weird vacation package scam (you arrive on the island with no money and in debt for "using his services"). At worst, he's using you to set up company towns. For god's sake, he literally has his own fake currency that he forces you to use to pay off your debt. But don't worry, he's repackaged it in a way that definitely doesn't sound like an MLM scam: the Nook Mileage Program!

You're no longer just his tenant or his temporary part-timer, you're his business lackey. The entire tutorial section of the game has you spending actual weeks running around completing tasks and doing hard labor to set up his colony. You're even tasked with preparing his properties and finding buyers for them. No, you aren't a tenant anymore. You work for the landlord. You are directly responsible for finding tenants for him. And he doesn't even fucking pay you. Not for setting up town hall and museum, or his nephew's shop –– which is the ONLY store on the entire island that sells necessities –– or bringing KK Slider to town, or helping populate his town. Not a single cent. No, actually, you have to pay HIM to BUY infrastructure like bridges and stairs and park benches. And all the while, he's telling you're the "resident representative"; you get to call the shots! That the reward is the community's progress. That what you're doing is in everyone's best interest (but most importantly, his).

Since NH's release, people have done a lot of legwork to say that Tom Nook isn't a capitalist while the game shows him at his very worst. He owns the only general store in town. You're forced to use a phone that he modified and branded as his own. Buy Nook-branded furniture and merchandise at the self-serve kiosk in the town hall, a governmental building! There's no conflict of interest here!

But hey, if you're tired of being the landlord/business mogul's goon, you can also find work as a deluxe resort home designer for a company that also pays you in their special company currency that can only be used to buy their products instead of a real salary! Because that's what the Animal Crossing franchise needs! More vacation homes!!!