Suggested Rules for Card Games

The Little Black Deck works with all your favorite card games. Make up your own sexy rules, or adopt ours. The only real rule is to make sure everyone feels safe, comfortable and has a good time.

Blackjack

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Our suggestion: Players who go bust must perform their cards.

Cheat

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Our suggestion: If you’re caught cheating, you must perform the cards you attempted to play. Otherwise the player who made the false accusation should perform them.

Concentration

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Our suggestion: If no pair is found, the player must perform one of the upturned cards.

Kalooki

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Our suggestion: Score normally, but players who haven’t laid in a given round must perform three of their cards. If the board has been “bent”, then these must be the highest 3 cards.
Or: Losing players must perform the same number of cards as the round — 1 in the 1st round, 9 in the 9th.

Oh Hell

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Our suggestion: The player with the lowest card in the trick can steal it by performing ALL the cards in the trick.

Poker

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Our suggestion: Replace the ante (if necessary) with an equivalent blind, which now includes performing a card from your hand after the round.

Rummy

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Our suggestion: Each round, the losing players must perform 3 cards from their hand.

Spit

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Our suggestion: The losing player has to perform the top 4 cards from their pile. Whether you take the name of the game to heart is up to you.

Spoons

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Our suggestion: The player without a spoon has to perform the cards in his hand. More adventurous groups can play with face cards; more conservative groups with lower cards.