I grew up watching my grandparents play bridge and poker. My grandmother taught me to shuffle cards when my hands were big enough to hold the cards. Played hearts and spades all through high school.
Love me some Euchre (if you have the four players, obviously) great “time movers”
- Back to the Future - Tuesday, Feb 21, 23 @ 8:37 am:
Happy to see the student athletes from two Illinois schools competing for the season basketball Championship in the Missouri Valley.
Sunday’s game between Bradley and SIU was a nail biter decided in the last seconds. The teams were evenly matched with the score being within a basket or two the whole game.
Was happy to see the Braves pull the game out, but gotta say seeing former SIU team members and their coach at halftime was a real highlight and brought back some great memories of the SIU basketball program.
That Isabel is a quick study- Congratulations to her on her victory.
- Product of the '60's - Tuesday, Feb 21, 23 @ 11:46 am:
Spent good part of my Freshman year in college playing hearts. Got to the point if I thought there even was just a slight chance to “shoot the moon ” I’d often go for it. Rest of college time spent in college radio station. If I ever meet up with Bill Clinton I will ask to play a game as I read he is a big Hearts player!!
Paczki popping up on my Twitter feed, including that Mayor Lightfoot stopped into a shop on the far NW side to get some. Does she actually think there are votes for her out there? Or is the paczki that good at the shop?
- Huh? - Tuesday, Feb 21, 23 @ 8:19 am:
I grew up watching my grandparents play bridge and poker. My grandmother taught me to shuffle cards when my hands were big enough to hold the cards. Played hearts and spades all through high school.
Wonderful way to pass time.
- Smalls - Tuesday, Feb 21, 23 @ 8:26 am:
“On a warm summer’s evenin’ on a train bound for nowhere
I met up with a gambler, we were both too tired to sleep”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Feb 21, 23 @ 8:32 am:
Good stuff right there.
Yep, Spades, Hearts, necessities.
Love me some Euchre (if you have the four players, obviously) great “time movers”
- Back to the Future - Tuesday, Feb 21, 23 @ 8:37 am:
Happy to see the student athletes from two Illinois schools competing for the season basketball Championship in the Missouri Valley.
Sunday’s game between Bradley and SIU was a nail biter decided in the last seconds. The teams were evenly matched with the score being within a basket or two the whole game.
Was happy to see the Braves pull the game out, but gotta say seeing former SIU team members and their coach at halftime was a real highlight and brought back some great memories of the SIU basketball program.
That Isabel is a quick study- Congratulations to her on her victory.
- Perrid - Tuesday, Feb 21, 23 @ 9:00 am:
Euchre and Pitch were the gotos for my family if we had enough people. Gin Rummy and 2 handed Spades if it was just me and my dad.
- Ducky LaMoore - Tuesday, Feb 21, 23 @ 9:08 am:
https://www.wqad.com/article/news/local/mental-health-rodney-williams-toulon-illinois/526-548b699f-9523-46f2-8875-40cc41bfb664
I liked Rod a lot. There has got to be a better way to handle mental health crises.
- FormerParatrooper - Tuesday, Feb 21, 23 @ 9:11 am:
Down time on deployments were spent on Spades and Chess. Good games to play and keep the mind working.
- Dog Lover - Tuesday, Feb 21, 23 @ 9:20 am:
We saw an interesting American Experience show on PBS last night about Monopoly’s Secret History. Neither my spouse nor I ever played the game. How about you? Do you like the game?
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/ruthless-monopolys-secret-history/
- TinyDancer(FKASue) - Tuesday, Feb 21, 23 @ 9:59 am:
Taped PBS, but haven’t watched it yet.
This was interesting. Long time ago, but interesting:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?324580-1/mary-pilon-the-monopolists
- Amalia - Tuesday, Feb 21, 23 @ 10:13 am:
omg, if one more person brings in paczki, talks about paczki…..
- Jocko - Tuesday, Feb 21, 23 @ 10:28 am:
==Good games to play and keep the mind working.==
Don’t forget war, slapjack, and poker. I’ve run into adults that don’t know a flush beats a straight.
- JoanP - Tuesday, Feb 21, 23 @ 10:31 am:
Speaking of games . . . No more softball in Grant Park: https://blockclubchicago.org/2023/02/20/softball-leagues-that-called-grant-park-home-for-decades-say-theyve-been-booted-due-to-nascar-deal-and-music-fests/
What the heck is happening to this city?
- Product of the '60's - Tuesday, Feb 21, 23 @ 11:46 am:
Spent good part of my Freshman year in college playing hearts. Got to the point if I thought there even was just a slight chance to “shoot the moon ” I’d often go for it. Rest of college time spent in college radio station. If I ever meet up with Bill Clinton I will ask to play a game as I read he is a big Hearts player!!
- RNUG - Tuesday, Feb 21, 23 @ 12:22 pm:
Grandma was a killer bridge player. After grandpa passed away at a young age, she hired out to help people reach their life master points.
As such, us kids grew up playing double-deck canasta and spades and hearts at her house.
Later on, at work, a group of us would play whist on our lunch hours.
- Candy Dogood - Tuesday, Feb 21, 23 @ 1:19 pm:
Any word on when the Governor is going to threaten to close DCFS if they don’t straighten up?
I’m excited to see the impact of this new approach to solving problems at the agencies he is responsible for.
- Amalia - Tuesday, Feb 21, 23 @ 2:11 pm:
Paczki popping up on my Twitter feed, including that Mayor Lightfoot stopped into a shop on the far NW side to get some. Does she actually think there are votes for her out there? Or is the paczki that good at the shop?