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up and down the river, spades, cambio, swoosh

these are my favorites! up and down the river (also called “oh heck” or “f*ck the dealer”) is a 3+ game (played w up to 5 people before) that’s really fun. involves bidding and the trump suit changes every round. spades is a 4+ person game that i love dearly! cambio is a 2+ person game thats really fun to learn w 2 and then expand. lots of rules, but worth it in the end. swoosh is very simple, fewer rules, 2+ people, one of my reigning favorites.

@bigstrongguy

Jan 2, 2025

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pounce

EXTREMELY GOATED CARD GAME basically speed solitaire. if you know how to play solitaire you can pick it up really quickly. the directions i linked say 4+ people but 2 or 3 works totally fine every time my dad’s side of the family gets together we play pounce and every time my aunt smokes us

@phoebehart

Dec 5, 2024

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spoons or dutch blitz

both of these are better played with groups! for spoons, the ultimate goal is to get 4 of the same card as fast as possible — but there‘s a bit more to it. using a regular deck of cards, each player starts with 4 cards, and placed in the centre of everyone (reachable for each player.., this will make sense i promise) are spoons - one less than the number of players. the person starting grabs a card off the top of the deck and quickly decides wether or not to keep it based on the hand they currently have. if they keep it, they swap it out with a card they don’t want to keep and slide it (face down!) to the next player. if they don’t keep it, they simply slide the card to the next player. this should be done as fast as possible! when the passing-of-the-card-loop reaches the last player, just start a new “deck” (which if the the game goes on long enough, will be re-used by the starting player) if you are able to get 4 of the same card, congrats! now you get to grab a spoon from the middle. you can do this as blatantly or as sneakily as you want. once people notice a spoon is being grabbed/missing, everyone has to grab a spoon as quickly as possible and whoever doesn’t grab one is OUT! but other people can get 4 cards before you, so while playing make sure to watch out for any spoon-grabbers as you don’t want to lose the round by being to focused on your own hand! dutch blitz has a bit more rules which aren't fresh in my mind, but since it’s a proper card game with its own special cards, you can fs google the rules or read them in the actual pack! it’s also fast paced and loads of fun.

@erdy

Jan 3, 2025

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being a nerd about stuff

being traditionally cool is really quite boring and iterative, and it’s actually very cool and sexy to geek out about something you like or share bits of knowledge on a topic you’re passionate about

@marxinista

Aug 17, 2024

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not being on tiktok

i had it for a little over a year until i was like wow this is actually terrible! i genuinely think it has negatively impacted society by ruining people’s attention spans, having a horrific algorithm, and most of all by the most mind-numbing or outright harmful trends - fake words that people now use IRL (“unalive”), trad wife tiktok, shein hauls, body-focused fitness vids that encourage fatphobia and unhealthy habits, shallow political/feminist theory and queer discourse, “alpha male” podcaster tiktok, encouraging overconsumption in general, trends ruining local spots or niche things… the list goes on

@marxinista

Aug 17, 2024

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electronics in fun colors

a million times cooler than the lackluster “sleek” tech color palette used today

@marxinista

Feb 22, 2025