Five-State Rummy can make learning facts about the United States fun. The object of the game is to collect five cards of states that have touching (contiguous) borders. Each state card has an illustration of the state bird and flower as well as the name of the state capital.
Detailed Description
What do you get when you combine Greek roots tele (far away) and skopeo (to look at)? “Telescope,” a device that allows us to “look at things far away”! Fun and fast-paced, this challenging card game is a great way to build vocabulary, word comprehension, and alphabetical skills by exploring the Greek and Latin roots of our English language. Includes 90 cards: 27 Greek, 15 Latin, 42 English, 4 Stump, and 2 Bonus. Ages 8 to adult.
Wish You Were Here-It’s a busy day on Lake Chicopee. But it was a mixed bunch of sightseers that had the strange local residents rubbing their hands with delight. But most promising of all, there was Wesley Higgins, the young man from Birmingham, who was there because he knew the legend of the ghost of Okeewana. All he had to do was immerse himself in the waters of the lake and he would find his heart’s desire. Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Djinn Rummy-In an aspirin bottle, nobody can hear you scream. Outside an aspirin bottle, however, things are somewhat different. And when Kayaguchiya Integrated Circuits III (Kiss, to his friends), a Force Twelve genie with an attitude, is released after 14 years of living with two dozen white tablets, there’s bound to be trouble…
By Noble Editorial Board House “In this forthright and hilarious memoir of Dr. Barney Newman, as told to and written by his loyal scribe, Ed Friedman, Newman begins by describing Cleveland’s post World War II changing economic and social environment before humorously revealing the stories of a group of men who played in a weekly gin rummy game. Newman takes readers into the player’s trials and tribulations as they-and their wives-deal with true life situations from marriage, infidelity, divorce, and death to financial and professional success, failure and living within the confines of mediocrity.” “The story is well written and the structure is sound. The author first describes Barney’s current mental and physical state, as he languishes in the long term care facility in Montipark Home for the Aged before segueing into the narratives of each player. And while poignant descriptions of Barney’s caretakers and growing deterioration are clothed in humor it does entirely remove the sting of Barney’s suffering. Newman does more than deliver a colorful recitation of game night history, he presents the dichotomy of suburban life a these men struggle, survive and move on” “An excellent, strong, and moving work.”
Experienced players of multiple forms of Canasta will attest to the fact that the red three has lost its luster over the years. In the initial game of Canasta, all four red threes scored a total of 800 points which was 16% of the winning score; in the advanced game of Bolivia, a team obtaining all the red threes achieved only 7% of the winning score. The red three had become a minor event. Royal Canasta not only puts the shine back on the red three, but it adds some polish to the lowly black three as well. The Super Royal Canasta contains six red threes and one black three; a Royal Canasta contains at least three red threes with the others being black. Because of the limitation of the cards available during play of a hand, only one team can complete a Royal Canasta; and this is the source of new excitement and strategy in this all-time favorite form of rummy!
