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Codenames is a 2015 party card game designed by Vlaada Chvátil and published by Czech Games Edition. Two teams compete by each having a "spymaster" give one-word clues that can point to multiple words on the board. The other players on the team attempt to guess their team's words while avoiding the words of the other team.
All Fours • Pedro • Cinch • Phat. Pitch (or " High Low Jack ") is the American name of the English trick-taking game of Blind All Fours which, in turn, is derived from classic All Fours (US: Seven Up). Historically, Pitch started as "Blind All Fours", a very simple All Fours variant that is still played in England as a pub game. [1]
All fours is a traditional English card game, once popular in pubs and taverns as well as among the gentry, that flourished as a gambling game until the end of the 19th century. It is a trick-taking card game that was originally designed for two players, but developed variants for more players. According to Charles Cotton, the game originated ...
Cinch (card game) Cinch, also known as Double Pedro or High Five, is an American trick-taking card game of the All Fours family derived from Auction Pitch via Pedro. [1] Developed in Denver, Colorado in the 1880s, [2] it was soon regarded as the most important member of the All Fours family in the USA, but went out of fashion with the rise of ...
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Like Pitch, Cinch is a point-trick game, i.e. for winning the trick play one needs to maximize the total value of the cards won in tricks, rather than the number of tricks won. But in Cinch (and in Pedro in general) the original card-points were abolished in favor of directly assigning game points to the cards.
Smear (also known as Schmier) is a North-American trick-taking card game of the All Fours group, [1] and a variant of Pitch (Setback). Several slightly different versions are played in Michigan, Minnesota, Northern and Central Iowa, Wisconsin and also in Ontario, Canada. It is highly likely that the name is related to the German word schmieren ...
Yaniv (card game) Yaniv ( Hebrew: יניב ), also known as Yusuf, Jhyap, Jafar, aa’niv, Minca or Dave, is a card game popular in Israel. It is a draw and discard game in which players discard before drawing a new card and attempt to have the lowest value of cards in hand. [1] [2] [3] The game is considered a backpackers game in Israel, and ...