Monthly Archive:: March 2019

Some of the rules and scoring variations herein are things my family came up with years ago to keep the game exciting or make it more challenging. The ones I found while researching the topic online came from other players who twisted the original rules in the same way, either making the game easier...

How to score a Bonus Yahtzee when the usual score boxes are already taken. The worst feeling you can get in a game of Yahtzee comes when you take the undesirable option of scratching your Yahtzee (taking 0 points), only to roll that beautiful 5-dice combination on your next play. Ouch! The heart-wrenching pain...

Yahtzee is undeniably the most popular dice-based family game of all time. Farkle comes a close second, but for more than half a century, the game of Yahtzee has fascinated children and adults of all ages from every corner of the globe....

Of all the card games still popular in modern Canadian society, all can be classified into one of just a few categories. Doing so, you'll find the largest list appears under the heading, 'Trick-Catching Games'....

The object of Yahtzee is to generate the highest possible score by rolling a variety of dice patterns and/or number groups. The player with the highest score at the end of the game wins....

What playing family card games when growing up taught me about gambling today. If I told you I learned how to properly manage a gambling bankroll by the time I was 10, you’d probably think I was crazy. Or that my parents were irresponsible. Or at the least that I was a miscreant underage...

Compilation of Canadian Bridge Clubs from BC to PEI. Who loves playing Bridge in Canada? A better question might be, “Who doesn’t?” Okay, that probably sounds like something your grandmother might say. But Bridge, (aka Contract Bridge, Rubber Bridge, or the popuQBlar tournament variety, Duplicate Bridge) isn’t just a game for seniors. It’s a card game that’s...

List of Lower Mainland B.C. Canada Euchre clubs. Euchre is one of those card games that’s spent centuries being handed down from generation to generation. It’s incredibly popular in Great Britain, where it originated, but also commands a strong following throughout much of Canada. Here in British Columbia, there are several concentrations of Euchre...

US and Canadian tournament schedule for Skat players. Each year, American and Canadian Skat leagues make their way across the continent to compete in a series of major tournaments, including the 5th US Open Championship that wrapped up in Florida last month. Congratulations to Texas native and ISPA USA Vice President Jim Leissner for...

Learn how and where to join a local Canadian Skat club. Before I began researching and authoring a complete Skat section for the website a few weeks ago, I honestly had no idea just how popular this card game was in Canada. I’d played it before. I knew it was a German favorite. But...