Comments on: Dutch Blitz

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:32:54 +0000

Dutch Blitz is a great game where they can get aggressive for fun.

At around age ten, my younger daughter’s friend took a pack of playing cards so they could entertain themselves while we had choir practice. I had no idea, but I would not have cared. One of the other kids saw them, however, and went off in high dudgeon.

By: Kaje

Kaje — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:47:52 +0000

I’ll never forget, I was at a pastor’s house in high school, and they were teaching me this game. It dawned on me, and I stated, that it was basically just like Solitaire, so I wouldn’t have that big of a problem. The glaring looks I got from saying that are still seared in my mind

By: Lurk

Lurk — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:40:37 +0000

Is this the first ever SFL post? It’s the first I can find on here…

By: Kim G

Kim G — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:29:38 +0000

Regular playing cards were not allowed in our house most of the time growing up. My mom bought them once, then repented and hid them away. Eventually she threw them out.

She flipped out on my 20-year-old brother last year when she found a deck of cards in his room. But she continued (and continues) to play Solitaire and Free Cell on her computer every night to wind down after a busy day.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:29:07 +0000

I played all of the ones that you have listed as we were not allowed to own playing cards. After all the jokers are suppose to mock Jesus and all of the Queen’s signify the worship of Mary by the Catlicks™. At least that was what we were taught. I learned to play Rook when I was 5 and didn’t touch playing cards until I was a teenager. One of the ladies in our church taught me how to play cribbage using a Rook deck since we couldn’t have regular cards. Now, I love all card games, especially Texas Hold ‘em with real cards. I know, I’m going to hell.

By: Seen Enough

Seen Enough — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:22:40 +0000

My son loves poker, and loves Jesus. It CAN be done!

By: C_Fresh

C_Fresh — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:16:03 +0000

If you meet people like that, you can tell them this story:

http://www.mamarocks.com/deck_of_cards.htm

By: Sims

Sims — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:05:55 +0000

They’re so much WORSE when they are POKER cards! As if that is the ONLY game that can be played with them.

By: MKXcomm

MKXcomm — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:04:04 +0000

The missionary family that worked with my family called playing cards “Poker Cards.” Although it always sounded like they meant “compulsive gambling/gateway to sin” cards. But maybe that was just my imagination

By: Papa Bear

Papa Bear — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:46:59 +0000

My dad taught in an IFB school, and his contract specified that he was not allowed to own playing cards. We did, however, own and play the following games:

Rook (many different games. Were some of these just regular card games with different cards?)
Mille Bournes
Pit
Uno
Dutch Blitz
Ono 99
Skip-Bo
not to mention Crazy 8s, I Doubt It, Go Fish, Old Maid etc., but with specially-designed non-playing card cards. I only learned later that some of these games could be played with playing cards.

I’m sure there were others I’m forgetting. What non-playing-card card games did you play as / with Fundies?