Card Games Books

Bumppo's wit that sparkles the pages makes learning of Columbus Euchre a true pleasure. This isn't the euchre your grandma taught you; Columbus euchre plays for blood. Bumppo coaches players on how to "eat" a sixth card, carefully avoiding a misdeal; how to mislead or annoy your opponents with table talk ("That's the fist time I've ever been euchred."); and proper protocol when you are caught stealing the deal ("Oops.") Many rules of the thumb are listed that give insight to even the seasoned euchre player. (Second-hand-low, Third-hand-high, Show your partner the left, Next for your partner, Lead king from A-K-x, etc.) Of particular value are the sections on "What to Lead?" and "Going Alone." Bumppo's "Columbus Book of Euchre" offers something for both the beginner and the pro. It's the best book on Euchre strategy that I've ever read. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the game.

I have read a lot of bridge books old and new and this is byfar the best bidding system out there. Gene Kirnum is simply a genius when it comes to this game. Thank you!

If you know your classical composers, this game is like a refresher course in their compositions. If you don't know your classical composers, this game is a more advanced (read: trickier) version of "Go Fish!" It's a ton of fun.

The cards are a regular deck of 52, with each composer having four featured works, one on each card of their number (Bach has the Aces, Handel the Twos, Haydn the Threes, Mozart the Fours, Beethoven the Fives, Schubert the Sixes, Mendelssohn the Sevens, Chopin the Eights, Schumann the Nines, Liszt the Tens, Brahms the Jacks,-are these last two jokes?-Tchaikovsky the Queens, and Grieg the Kings). But since it's a regular deck of cards, you can use it for any game if you get tired of playing it strictly as it's own game.

The object of the game is to get the most "sets" of compositions. Players have to ask each other for the specific composer and composition, which is the more difficult and fun part of the game. Instead of saying "Got any Fives?" a player has to ask "Do you have Beethoven's 'Appassionata' Sonata in F Minor?" Therein lies the best part of the game: other players know what you asked for, and therefore know what composer you're searching for, and can "steal" your composer from you. If you don't have any Chopin cards, you can't ask for them, but if you keep it quiet that you have a Chopin card, you can steal somebody else's carefully collected Chopin cards after they've done all the work of finding them.

As a neat little bonus, each card features a tiny excerpt of sheet music of the composition it is labeled as. I suppose that advanced players could play a "hum it" version, where players would have to hum (or maybe play on a piano) the excerpt in order to collect the card they wanted.

I played this game repeatedly with my cousins while on a family vacation; one wasn't a classical music fan at all, but he learned the names of the composers and compositions after playing the game so many times. We had a riot of a time.

As a side note, Amazon says that it might have trouble finding this game for you, but I don't think they would have trouble locating it. I actually bought it in a Mom & Pop type bookstore, so if they can get it, I'm sure Amazon can get it.

This book is an amazing book with so much information that will blow you away. The book took many years to write....
when you read it you will understand why. There were a few slow parts in this book, but overall a five star. Reading
second world war books is somewhat like taking a large Jig Saw puzzle and putting it together piece by piece. After
reading over 30 W.W.II books, Body Guards of Lies put a big part of the puzzle together for me. It's unbias not like
some of the books I have read from USA authors. it's a must read ...you will not be disappointed.
DJM

This is a great introduction to Bridge by one of the premier personalities in the field. This book has since been re-written as "Fell's Bridge" (ISBN 0883910632) by the same author and publisher.

At last!!! A deck of cards that in no way conflicts with my religious beliefs. This deck with its universals and laws tunes me to my inner self and helps me make the most of my current situation

My husband helped our little one make a cute card for Mother's day. So much better than a store bought card!

As a middle school teacher, I am always looking for ways to push my visual learners to work on their auditory skills and those that are kinesthetic to work on their verbal skills. These cards are great to cut apart, laminate and let kids play with the tasks in areas that are outside their learning style as well as letting them enjoy a task that is right up their ally. These would be great to put in a sub basket as activities to pull out if you aren't given enough to fill a period or as fun at-home enrichment for any middle schooler or advanced 4th or 5th grader.

This was the perfect book for me. All I knew about the game prior to reading Buttler's book had come from reading rules published by cribbage board makers and the American Cribbage Congress, which are sometimes leave a few items unclear. Buttler makes all aspects of the rules and strategy clear, at least to me. Highly recommended by me, a beginner, but I suspect that experts would find the book well worthwhile.

This is an excellent guide to the styles, manufacturers and street price of cribbage boards. Great photographs. Very helpful in identifying antique boards. Only negative...I wish it had an index!

This book covers the subject of cribbage in a depth not usually achieved.It has great pictures and is very informative. Whether you play cribbage and wanted to know the history or you are a collecter of cribbage boards then this is a definative guide to changing styles. A must have by anyones standards