Hearts!

[iago]

We had a game of Hearts at lunch time today, and apparently we're going to be doing it twice a week, until we get sick of it, I guess.

First of all, my skill level: I played against Windows a few dozen times, when I was quite young.  I won sometimes, I lost sometimes. 

Other players, from best to worst:
- Mike, a pro who I've never seen lose a card game.  He's reasonably good at counting cards, and beat some other Hearts players by A LOT last time I watched him play. 
- Kevin, a self-declared Hearts champion in high-school.
- (me)
- Garrett, his second time playing, ever, I think.

And the results were:
Winner: me, by tons.  I cleaned up (next person behind me was about 60 points back)
Second: Garrett, by a decent amount (20 points, or so)
Third: Kevin, though it was close
Forth: Mike

I love how it was all topsy-turvy, I never expected to win, and I never expected Mike to lose, etc.  I suspect it had to do with luck, though, I'll probably get creamed next time.

Part way through the game, a prof walked by and came in, asking what we were playing.  We told him Hearts.  He looked suspicious, and in a joking sorta way asked if we were playing for money.  I had a bowl in fruit in front of me, so I said "nope, we're playing for fruit."  The thing is, none of us has had that prof recently, so we aren't really sure if he was being friendly or if he was trying to get us in trouble.  But it all worked out.

[Hitmen]

Haha, that's awesome. But it's double awesome if you were really playing for fruit.

[Blaze]

I don't know how to play hearts, and have tried to learn and failed.  After I failed, I moved onto Minesweeper.  I've never looked back.

[Ergot]

Uhh... we played Heart in 8th grade... it got boring after about one week. Keeping count of score is tough.

[Joe]

I prefer Solitare, because I have no friends!

But seriously, if I were to play a card game at lunch, it'd probably be idiot, aka shithead. But all I do at lunch is eat a cheeseburger, drink rootbeer (free refills WOOT) and discuss WoW with Tyler Chris and Matt. We're all in Evil Intent on Cho'gall, so it's pretty sweet.

[Newby]

... and discuss WoW with Tyler Chris and Matt. We're all in Evil Intent on Cho'gall, so it's pretty sweet.

Hahahaha. If I knew you and went to your school, I'd probably beat you up for being retarded. At least we throw in weird sexual terms when we talk about D&D.

[iago]

I don't know how to play hearts, and have tried to learn and failed.  After I failed, I moved onto Minesweeper.  I've never looked back.

It's not very hard once it's explained to you. :)

Uhh... we played Heart in 8th grade... it got boring after about one week. Keeping count of score is tough.

Keeping score is easy!  Every hearts card is 1 point, and the queen of spades is 13.  That's it!  Oh, and if you take every point, the other players get 26 and you get 0. 

But seriously, if I were to play a card game at lunch, it'd probably be idiot, aka shithead. But all I do at lunch is eat a cheeseburger, drink rootbeer (free refills WOOT) and discuss WoW with Tyler Chris and Matt. We're all in Evil Intent on Cho'gall, so it's pretty sweet.

We've played that before, but it's pretty boring.  Not much strategy, all luck, it's only good to waste time.  Hearts is a lot more fun overall.  And yes, the people who spend a lot of time talking about WoW are such losers, it seems...

[rabbit]

Uhh... we played Heart in 8th grade... it got boring after about one week. Keeping count of score is tough.

Keeping score is easy!  Every hearts card is 1 point, and the queen of spades is 13.  That's it!  Oh, and if you take every point, the other players get 26 and you get 0.

Or you can deduct 26 points from your score, which is always nice if you've got a lot of points.

I like hearts, and I rarely do poorly at it...hrm.

[Ergot]

Yea, but in 40 minutes we only get like 3 games done after counting up the cards then reshuffling. Someone always loses the score sheet the next day :\.

[trust]

The thing is, none of us has had that prof recently, so we aren't really sure if he was being friendly or if he was trying to get us in trouble.  But it all worked out.

Maybe he wanted to play. :)

[iago]

Yea, but in 40 minutes we only get like 3 games done after counting up the cards then reshuffling. Someone always loses the score sheet the next day :\.

We have about 90 minutes, but somebody was late so we only had about 75 minutes to play.  We probably did about 10-15 hands.  Nobody reached 100, but all three of them were pretty close.

The thing is, none of us has had that prof recently, so we aren't really sure if he was being friendly or if he was trying to get us in trouble.  But it all worked out.

Haha, if we were playing a game where you can randomly add a player, we might have offered.  But then, we'd probably end up with a dozen players if we did that..
Maybe he wanted to play. :)