Shanghai

Shanghai-no I don't mean China...this is a card game that my family has played forever. When my mom was growing up the ladies use to do a card club and play this. Recently, I find myself really enjoying it, even though sometimes it can take 2 hours just to finish. You can play with as many people as you want usually we play with 7 to 10. For 2 people that equals 1 full deck of cards including jokers, each hand you play is different and you play sets and runs>now in this game you can buy cards to help make your set or run and you get 3 a hand except for the last you get an extra. You put in $1.25 and then each hand pays .10cents per person and then lowest score gets the rest of the pot. Cards value you with jokers=50pts, facecards and 10=10pts, A's and 2's=20pts, the rest=5pts. The objective is to go down because you only count the cards left in your hand and you dont really want them to be high cards because your score addes up very quickly. I could compare this game to GIN or500 (Rummy).

My family, cousins, and Ian can get very competive over this game. We laugh and always say "Jesus its just X amount of cents, dont be a score loser" but its not the point were in it to win it :)

Have a great night! Im finally feeling better, I cant wait to I get back to my normal routine.