Dutch Blitz
Although Baptist fundamentalists wouldn’t ever dream of touching regular playing cards, they do still love card games; and one of the perennial favorites is Dutch Blitz. After all, anybody can see the game is wholesome just by looking at it. There are primary colors and pictures of modestly dressed Amish children. Instead of evil hearts and clubs, benign-looking farm implements grace the backs of the cards.
Without even the remote chance of the appearance of evil, this card game has been used at youth outings, christian college campuses, and church picnics almost since it was invented in the 1950′s. As the saying goes, “if it’s from the 50′s it’s just plain better.”
Blitz!
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Everything I learned about solitaire I learned from Dutch Blitz.
Oh man this site is awesome! Hilarious because it’s true and the subtle sarcasm is gold. Def going into my rss reader.
I WISH people would actually play this game!!! It’s soooo much fun!!! It takes a while do develop your skill but once you get going, it can get crazy. When I went to BJU, my roomies and I would play twice a night and kept a scoreboard on the wall. You should have heard the yelling and screaming that went on…. never mind the cheating accusations…. Our RA even had to come into the room and tell us to keep it down. haha! fun stuff!
I remember being reprimanded in 5th grade for bringing a card game to play at my Christian school. It was called “Bible Daughters” and the goal was to collect four of a kind (Rachel, Esther, Mary, etc.). Each card had a fact about the Biblical character. My Sunday School teacher (at a different church) had given it to me as a Christian present. I was annoyed and offended that I was told to put it away lest “visitors” (although there were none) might think we children were playing poker and betting (well, that’s not exactly what they said, but that’s how ridiculous it seemed to me!) We did tend to shy away from card games in general so I’d never even heard of Rook or Dutch Blitz until adulthood.