Monthly Archive:: June 2018

It is said that Rummy can be traced back hundreds of years, derived from Chinese gaming culture. However, Rummy isn’t a single card game. It is, in reality, a vast category of games, all of which involve the basic concepts of “drawing, discarding, and melding” special groups of cards. Rummy 500‘s history actually dates...
They say there’s more than one way to skin a cat. While I’m not sure why that’s such a popular adage, it definitely applies to the game of Rummy 500. In a previous segment, we covered the complete, traditional rules of the game. This time, we’ll discuss a multitude of extensions and rule variations...
Rummy 500 is a very well known card game that’s extremely popular throughout Canada, the US, and beyond. Part of the Melding Family of card games, players strive to play, or meld, cards in their hand for points, receiving negative points for unmelded cards. The game goes by a wide range of names. The...
For the most part, Canadian Salad is a game of chance. There are anywhere from 6 to 12 rounds of play, each with more than enough opportunities to fall behind in the count—especially the last round, where 500+ penalty points will be served. However, as with most games of chance, there are some tactics...
Almost anyone who’s ever played Canadian Salad will tell you it’s one of the most entertaining card games of all time. A compendium game with anti-trick catching rules and variable penalty points, there are quite a few ways to play it these days. Canadian Salad history isn’t too well known, but one thing is...
Canadian Salad is one of those games that really draws players in. It’s so popular that it’s played in many regions all over the world; often with its own region-specific title (i.e. Wisconsin Scramble). Like so many games do, variant rules have spread to make the game more challenging, more entertaining, more accommodating, etc....
Canadian Salad is an amalgamation of anti-trick-catching games all rolled into one, and played over six rounds. In each round, players have a new set of tasks, or rather, tricks/cards to avoid catching. This game is quite popular in Canada (if the name didn’t give it away). It’s also played in other regions of...
Immensely popular through parts of Canada, the US, and various countries around the world, King Pedro is played in groups, tournaments, and is widely available online. Prior to the breakout of Hearts in the early to mid 1900s, it was actually considered one of the best skill games of the last century. King Pedro...
King Pedro is a popular Canadian card game that’s derived from an American game known simply as Pedro; the word Pedro meaning Five. By its original rules, the 5 of trump is worth the most scoring points (five). In most Americanized variants, the trump 5 is the Right Pedro, and the 5 of the...
In our first dissemination of this popular card game, we discussed the standard rules of King Pedro, as it’s most commonly played in Canada. We followed that up with Ukrainian-Canadian King Pedro rules, as members of those communities often play it with a varied dealing, points and scoring system. This time, we’ll be detailing...
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