Cards V Dice Trivia Quiz

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Canasta. The game of Canasta first appeared in 1939. Segundo Sánchez Santo and Alberto Serrato came up with the idea in Montevideo, Uruguay. The game really took off in the very late 1940s when it was sold in America. To win the game you need to score 5000 points.

Cheat. This game has just revolved over many years. A simple game where the idea is to lose your cards by hook or crook, tell the truth or tell a white lie, and if you get caught, then you'll have to pick up all the cards on the table.

Nap, short for the card game Napoleon, is believed to have originated in the early 1870s. The first known publication of its rules appeared in England in 1876. The game is played with a single deck of cards. Players declare how many tricks they think they can win. The player who bids the highest number of tricks gets to select the trump suit, which can be any of the four suits. In this game, the Ace is the highest card, and the Two is the lowest.

Spoons. You may ask, "When was this game invented?" The simple answer is that no one really knows when the game was invented, but it has been suggested that it may have evolved from the 20th-century game of Pig and Tongue. The basics of the game are that you try and get four of a kind; if you manage to get four of a kind, you pick up a spoon from the centre of the table. Depending on how many players there are, you always have one less spoon to go around. So if you had four players, you would only have three spoons and so on. The winner is the one who has the last spoon.

Snap. John Jaques & Son Ltd of London invented the traditional card game Snap in 1866. One of the simplest card games to play, especially for children, is the game of Snap. The game can be played with two to eight players. All you have to do is match a pair of cards. When a pair of cards match, the player shouts, "Snap." The player who wins all the cards won the game.

Pinochle. This is another game where no one invented Pinochle. Like many other card games, it evolved over a period of many years. Pinochle has been said to have origins linked to the German/Swiss game Binokel or the French game Bezique.

The game consists of a 48-card pack. Each player receives twelve cards; usually two people play as a team. Each team bids on the number of points they believe they can win. Whoever bids the highest is allowed to choose the trump suit and lays down a card first.

Whist: Whist is a game of tactics and strategy using a 52-card pack. Each player receives 13 cards. Basically you try and win as many hands as possible. If you lead first, it's best if you lead with your highest card and the suit that you have most of the cards in. When the cards are dealt, the last card is turned up, and that card becomes the trump card. A trump card is the one to have, as it outranks all other suits. You have to follow suit if you can; if not, any other card can be laid. However, you can always use a trump card if you have one to get you out of trouble. If other players lay a trump card, the highest one wins. In this game, the ace is the highest card, and the two are the lowest.

Slapjack. Slapjack is a quick and lively card game for kids in which players take turns flipping cards face-up onto a central stack. Every time a "Jack" comes, the object is to be the first to slap the pile so that player can claim every card in the middle. The winner is the one who gains all the cards on the table.

Old Maid. Old Maid is a 19th-century American card game for two or more players, presumed to have derived from an ancient European gambling game in which the loser pays for the drinks. In 1831 the rules for the game was first printed by the American Eliza Leslie. A similar game in Germany called "Black Peter" was recorded in 1821 and some people think Old Maid is a spin-off from this game.

The objective of Old Maid is to pair up cards and discard them all. The game concludes when all pairs have been matched, leaving only one unmatched card-the "Old Maid". The player left with this card at the end is the loser.

Newmarket: Newmarket is an English matching card game suitable for any number of players. It is a home gambling game that relies more on luck than skill and appeared in the 1880s as a refined version of the older game called Pope Joan.

The game uses a standard 52-card deck plus four additional cards from another deck: an ace, king, queen, and jack, each of a different suit, placed face up on the table. These four extra cards are called the horses. After all the cards are dealt to the players and one extra hand called the "dummy", which belongs to the player to the dealer's left, the player holding the two of clubs announces "two of clubs". The next player then says, "three of clubs", and this continues sequentially until no one has the next card-it might be in the dummy hand. When you play a card that matches one of the horses, you win all the money placed on that horse.

This is only the basics of the game, as it would take a long time to go through all the rules of the game, but I'm sure you get the general idea.

Backgammon is regarded as one of the oldest board games in the world. It has been suggested the game is around 5000 years old. Four dice are used in this game.

Yahtzee can be traced back to 1954 when a rich Canadian couple first played the game on their yacht, although then it was known as "The Yacht Game". In 1956 the game was commercialised by game entrepreneur Edwin S. Lowe. Five dice are used in this game.

The Hollingsworth Brothers invented the game Perquackey in 1956. 13 dice are used in this spelling game.

American Allan Turoff invented the game Boggle in 1972, although he originally called his game ""Find-A-Word" back in 1970. He changed the name because Parker Brothers didn't like the name.

Another game from the entrepreneur Edwin S. Lowe was called Scribbage. This game came on the market in 1959. 13 lettered dice are used in this game.

Ludo. Ludo is another game that has evolved over hundreds of years. The game as we know it today was patented in England in 1896 by Alfred Collier. Generally speaking, only one six-sided die is used in this game; however, two dice can be used.