On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 15:11 -0500, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Alexander Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Another interesting data point: I was playing Cheat with a single deck > > of cards with some friends. Someone called "two fives", and put down > > two cards. So I called "three fives", and put down the other two fives, > > in a squared-up way so other players could not easily count the number > > of cards I'd played. > > I've always played that you must play in order starting with twos, so > after someone plays fives you must play sixes, making your scam > impossible. I believe Hoyle's version includes this feature. Being > able to play whatever rank of cards you want seems to me to make the > game way too easy.
I prefer the version of the game you suggest; however, in the version we were playing at the time you had to play cards of the same value as, or one more or one less than, the previous value played. The one-more-or-less version tended to lead to games in which nobody dared to call Cheat! at all; I'm not sure if that was just our play style, but it lead to relatively boring games. -- ais523
