Playing Cards for a Rainy Day! ? Life as a WAHM

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School vacation is coming up and many people are planning to travel with their kids. It?s great to have daytrips planned full of activities, especially if there is a lot of sightseeing and outdoor things to do that will last all day long. There are lots of great ?staycations? where you can save a lot of money. But what happens if bad weather strikes? Movies can get expensive and sitting on the sofa and armchairs while watching TV or play video games all the time gets redundant as well. Instead, why not play some card games? It?s inexpensive fun that everyone in the family can participate in. There are all kinds of games for different numbers of players and all different ages. Here are just a few:

Crazy Eights

Two to four people can play. The object of the game is to get rid of all of your cards.

If there are two players, each of them gets seven cards, but if there are 3 or 4 players each gets 5 cards.

The remaining cards are the draw pile. Turn one card over to start the discard pile.

The player to the dealer?s left must match the card?s number or suit. If you don?t have a match you can play an eight and of any suit but decide what suit it represents. If you don?t have either a match or an eight you draw cards from the pile until you get one.

The first person to discard all his or her cards wins.

Stealing Bundles

Two to four people can play.

Four cards are dealt to each player, and four cards are placed face up in the middle of the table. The first player ( to the left of the dealer) either matches one of the cards in the middle, picking it up and placing both cards face up in front of him in a stack called a ?bundle?, or he adds another card face up in the middle.

The next player has the same options plus one more: He can steal the previous player?s bundle, by matching the top card.

Play continues around the table with each player having 3 options:

???? ? matching a middle card

???? ? playing a card in the middle

???? ? stealing a bundle.

When a player runs out of cards, the dealer gives him four more from the deck. If there are no more cards in the middle, the dealer replenishes them from the deck. When the dealer?s deck is gone, the player with the most cards wins.

So keep a deck of playing cards on hand for rainy day family fun.

*Ellen is a blogger who loves playing card games on a rainy day.

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