Looking for information about card game
Joona I Palaste
games.
I and my little brother like to play a game we've dubbed "Shampoo".
Here are the rules as we use them.
Shampoo uses a standard 52-card deck, shuffled. Jokers are not used.
Both players are dealt five cards. The player who starts places one
card on the table, face down, and announces its value. The next player
must place a card with either the same or higher value. Suits don't
matter. Aces rank high. If an ace is placed, the pile is cleared off and
a new pile is started. More than one card with the same (announced)
value can be placed at the same time.
All cards are placed face down, with their values announced orally. A
player may lie in his announcement, using another value instead. The
next player can either accept the cards, or call them out by turning
them over. If the previous player was lying, he must pick up the entire
pile. If he was telling the truth, the player calling the cards out must
pick up the entire pile.
All players must keep at least 5 cards in their hands until the deck
runs out. The one to first run out of cards is the winner.
I'd like to find out information about this game. Does anyone else play
it? Does it have other names? Are there any "official" rules? Please
advise, thanks.
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Tom Sloper
>I and my little brother like to play a game we've dubbed "Shampoo".
>I'd like to find out information about this game. Does anyone else play
>it? Does it have other names? Are there any "official" rules? Please
>advise, thanks.
Someone will probably know the name of your card game and post it here, but
for your future reference, I'm telling you about a site where you can do
research on this yourself. At http://www.pagat.com/class/index.html you
will find a Classified Index of card games. Pagat.com is the best online
source of information about card games anywhere, searchable in a variety of
different ways, and you can undoubtedly find your game there (with
variations, alternate names, and even history).
Cheers,
Tom
Joona I Palaste
Our game Shampoo turned out to be a simplified variation of Paskahousu
(Shitpants). We must have picked the rules off a friend and then
misremembered them to this simplified version. Thanks for the link.
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/-- Joona Palaste (pal...@cc.helsinki.fi) ---------------------------\
| Kingpriest of "The Flying Lemon Tree" G++ FR FW+ M- #108 D+ ADA N+++|
| http://www.helsinki.fi/~palaste W++ B OP+ |
\----------------------------------------- Finland rules! ------------/
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intellectual enlightenment."
- Anon
Tom Sloper
>
> Our game Shampoo turned out to be a simplified variation of Paskahousu
> (Shitpants). We must have picked the rules off a friend and then
> misremembered them to this simplified version. Thanks for the link.
Great, I'm glad it helped, and so quickly! (^_^)
Tom
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