Adjusting to time difference now. Some antics last night when a couple of the Russians found an English phrase book. "I can ski well" was a highlight.
Trees are beautiful this morning - lots of golden leaves, split by the silver trunks of the birch, which seems to be the most common tree across Russian. Spent about 30mins this morn just staring out the window.
Briškula - a Slovenian card game, taught to by Natasha, part of the Adventure Taxi crew (also Jules, and Jack and Mya - https://www.facebook.com/theadventuretaxi).
* Everyone is dealt five cards, and a trump suit is picked.
* First player plays face-up, and everyone must try to follow suit.
* Any trump beats suit, and cards go from 2, 3, 4... 10, J, Q, K, 3, A.
* Player who wins the trick keeps the pile, and all take another card.
* At end, total cards in tricks won: J = 2, Q = 3, K = 4, 3 = 10, K = 11
* Highest score wins
Blob - a card game thought up by Dom, best played with 2-3 decks
* 12 rounds, each round has a magic number, starting with number 3, going up to A.
* The card of the magic number is wild, and can be used as anything
* 3+ cards of the same number scores zero (e.g., 3 sevens, or 4 Jacks)
* A running straight of at least 3 cards also scores zero (e.g. 6, 7, 8 of different suits)
* At the start of each round, players are given X cards, where X is the magic number
* A card is then burned from the top of the deck, face-up
* At the start of each player's turn, they can either take the burned card, or a face-down card from the top of the deck
* They then burn a card themselves, and the next player goes.
* A player knocks on their turn to signal they are ending the round, and then on their next turn the cards are revealed and totalled.
* Everything else scores as the number on the card, with J = 11, Q = 12, K = 13, A = 14
* Final scores after round 12 decides the winner
http://domcheeseman.blogspot.ie/2011/09/day-103-train-again.html
Trees are beautiful this morning - lots of golden leaves, split by the silver trunks of the birch, which seems to be the most common tree across Russian. Spent about 30mins this morn just staring out the window.
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Briškula - a Slovenian card game, taught to by Natasha, part of the Adventure Taxi crew (also Jules, and Jack and Mya - https://www.facebook.com/theadventuretaxi).
* Everyone is dealt five cards, and a trump suit is picked.
* First player plays face-up, and everyone must try to follow suit.
* Any trump beats suit, and cards go from 2, 3, 4... 10, J, Q, K, 3, A.
* Player who wins the trick keeps the pile, and all take another card.
* At end, total cards in tricks won: J = 2, Q = 3, K = 4, 3 = 10, K = 11
* Highest score wins
***
Blob - a card game thought up by Dom, best played with 2-3 decks
* 12 rounds, each round has a magic number, starting with number 3, going up to A.
* The card of the magic number is wild, and can be used as anything
* 3+ cards of the same number scores zero (e.g., 3 sevens, or 4 Jacks)
* A running straight of at least 3 cards also scores zero (e.g. 6, 7, 8 of different suits)
* At the start of each round, players are given X cards, where X is the magic number
* A card is then burned from the top of the deck, face-up
* At the start of each player's turn, they can either take the burned card, or a face-down card from the top of the deck
* They then burn a card themselves, and the next player goes.
* A player knocks on their turn to signal they are ending the round, and then on their next turn the cards are revealed and totalled.
* Everything else scores as the number on the card, with J = 11, Q = 12, K = 13, A = 14
* Final scores after round 12 decides the winner
***
http://domcheeseman.blogspot.ie/2011/09/day-103-train-again.html
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