Notes from a Shabbat afternoon

[rhu]

We taught the kids about trick-taking games today. We started with Hearts, then moved on to whist. They got it and enjoyed it enough to ask for more later in the day. We also walked them through one hand of bridge; we'll have to figure out the right way to introduce bridge for real gradually.

Playing whist is weird when you're used to playing bridge. No clue what my partner has. A trump suit that's sometimes convenient to one side or the other but is just as often random distraction, and much harder to count and track (since there's no dummy). I can't wait to graduate the kids to bridge.

Tani also wanted to know about poker, which is described in "The Pocket Dangerous Book for Boys", so we explained and played a few hands of draw poker. Which I'm sure would be a lot more interesting if there were betting involved.

Other random note: H and I were discussing the kitschy shows we used to watch as after-school syndicated reruns when we were kids, that our kids won't have the pleasure (!) of experiencing. I said, "They won't know what a shoe phone is!" to which Alissa replied, "Sure we will! It's a phone that's attached to the wall by a wire!"

I'm not sure what the connection is in her mind, but suddenly I feel old.

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[devjoe.livejournal.com]

It's funny how wrong she is, since the shoe phone was NOT wired, and was presumably a cell phone in an era when nobody had cell phones.

Anyway, I'm sure all those shows are on cable somewhere. They might not ever find them and watch them because of all the other shows out there, though.

And it's great that you're teaching them card games.