PlayingCardForum.com - A Discourse For Playing Cards
Off Topic Chat => Feedback + Support => Topic started by: Worst Bower on April 17, 2015, 12:32:38 PM
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For being the largest playing card forum on the internet, there is no board for card games! ???
If you google "card games forum", you'll only find dedicated deck or collectible card games! :o
The closest thing to a games forum is this: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rec.games.playing-cards (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rec.games.playing-cards) which sees very few serious posts but has some IPCS members posting like Depaulis, Parlett, and McCleod. The only other option is wading through the many loosely connected sections of http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamefamily/98/traditional-card-games
(http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamefamily/98/traditional-card-games)
Sure there are forums for specific games like poker or bridge but we should have our own board for all card games including regional, historical, or obscure games and their variants where we can discuss rules and strategies. It can also be a place where we can invent our own games.
Let's put the PLAY back into PLAYing cards! :D
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For being the largest playing card forum on the internet, there is no board for card games! ???
If you google "card games forum", you'll only find dedicated deck or collectible card games! :o
The closest thing to a games forum is this: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rec.games.playing-cards (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rec.games.playing-cards) which sees very few serious posts but has some IPCS members posting like Depaulis, Parlett, and McCleod. The only other option is wading through the many loosely connected sections of http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamefamily/98/traditional-card-games
(http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamefamily/98/traditional-card-games)
Sure there are forums for specific games like poker or bridge but we should have our own board for all card games including regional, historical, or obscure games and their variants where we can discuss rules and strategies. It can also be a place where we can invent our own games.
Let's put the PLAY back into PLAYing cards! :D
Actually, there's a board for "everything" here - the Conversation Parlor is a general-purpose board for any subject that doesn't neatly fit into the board divisions. Feel free to start new card game topics there all you like. If the concept is popular enough and we have enough participants engaged in game conversation, I'd be happy to create a brand new board for card games.
I'm looking forward to your first card game topic!
Cheers,
Don
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For being the largest playing card forum on the internet, there is no board for card games! ???
If you google "card games forum", you'll only find dedicated deck or collectible card games! :o
The closest thing to a games forum is this: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rec.games.playing-cards (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rec.games.playing-cards) which sees very few serious posts but has some IPCS members posting like Depaulis, Parlett, and McCleod. The only other option is wading through the many loosely connected sections of http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamefamily/98/traditional-card-games
(http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamefamily/98/traditional-card-games)
Actually I think there's quite a few places on boardgamegeek.com that would offer what you're describing. It is after all the world's biggest website for card games and board games, with over 4 million unique users monthly. I've been active there since 2005, and regularly post reviews of board games and card games there. Here are a few options to consider:
1. Family page for "Traditional Card Games". This is the link you mentioned already. This has links to individual card games that each have their own forums. If you scroll down, this page also has its own forum, although there are hardly any discussion threads there. This page is mostly useful to help find database pages for individual card games.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamefamily/98/traditional-card-games
2. Database page for "Traditional Card Games". This has a more active forum about games played with a traditional deck of cards.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/21804/traditional-card-games
3. Playing Card Games Enthusiasts Guild. The forum here also has discussion about invented and existing card games, all played with a traditional deck of cards.
https://boardgamegeek.com/guild/1259
4. GeekLists. People often post helpful GeekLists about different card games, and other users then comment on the individual entries on the list. As an example, here's a list that I created about my favourite games, entitled "Favorite Games with Standard Playing Cards"; there are many others like this:
https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/171804/favorite-games-standard-playing-cards
So I think boardgamegeek.com is the website which has what you're looking for, it's just a bit of an intimidating labyrinth for newcomers, so hopefully those links will be helpful pointers in the right direction.