News & Updates:

Like the website?
Recommend Us To a Friend

SOME CARD GAMES LIKE CANFIELD

This is a way of playing Klondike or Canfield as a round game, with any number of contestants up to seven or eight. The only limit is actually the number that can sit around the table and find elbow room. Each player has his own deck. All the decks must have different backs, so that the cards can be sorted out later. Each player lays out his initial cards for Klondike or Can-field—whatever the game chosen. Everybody must be given time to complete the layout. Then at a given signal all begin to play. Each plays the game in the usual way, building on his own piles, but all the base cards must be put in the center and they become everybody's property. A player may build on anybody's base cards. The first to get rid of all his cards onto the bases wins the game.

If the play comes to a standstill before anybody has got rid of all his cards, the base piles are sorted out and the cards are returned to their owners. The one who got the most cards into the center wins the game. When the game is Canfield, a shorter game can be played: the one who first gets rid of his 13-pile wins. It doesn't matter where the cards go—into the center or on his own building piles, so long as he is able to move them somewhere. The game is very exciting, and rules should be enforced strictly to keep it from getting rough. A player may put cards on the center piles with one hand only—his right hand, if he is right-handed. If several players try to put the same card on the same pile simultaneously, the one whose card is lowest wins the race and all the others must be taken back.

BEEHIVE

(1 deck)

This is essentially Canfield with simplified building.

Count off 10 cards face down, then place them face up on the table at your left. This is the beehive. To right of the hive deal 6 cards face up, in any convenient arrangement, such as two rows of 3. These cards are the garden. The building is by rank; that is, a 9 goes on a 9, a Queen on a Queen, and so on. Build only on the garden, never on the hive. But remove the top card of the hive whenever you can, to put it on the garden. Garden cards or piles may be built together when they are of the same rank. Whenever you make a space in the 6 places reserved for the garden, move the top card of the hive into the space, thus releasing the next card of the hive.

The undealt remainder of the deck is the stock. As in Canfield, go through the stock in batches of 3 cards at a time, being careful not to disturb the order of the cards. Put each batch face up on a single wastepile. You may play off the wastepile onto the garden. After exhausting the stock, pick up your wastepile without shuffling it, turn it over to form a new stock, and go through it again. You may continue going through the stock-wastepile without limit, until you win the game or are blocked. Whenever you get all four cards of a rank together in' the garden, throw out this pile, creating a space. After the beehive is exhausted, you may fill spaces from the wastepile. To Win the Game you must throw out the whole deck in fours of the same rank.

Related terms include avatar card game and munchkin card game.