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Mar. 21st, 2003
Invitation
Mar. 21st, 2003 12:44 pmThanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hanacandi, I suddenly have a deep and abiding urge to play the card game called 'Asshole'. Do you know it? Apparently it is called 'President' in the UK. There are many versions of the rules, but these are the ones I know:
The cards:
lowest card: three
Highest regular strength card: ace
the supercards: two, which can trump any other card, or any set of doubles; joker, which can trump absolutely anything, including triples (joker optional).
How to play:
The goal is to get rid of all your cards first. Proceeding around the table, each person needs to trump whatever card the person next to them just put down. For instance: person 1 puts down a pair of threes. Person 2 needs to put down a pair of something higher than that, and person 3, something higher than whatever they put down. If you don't have anything higher, you can pass. Whoever's cards at at the top of the pile wins the round, and gets to start the next round.
The first person to lose all their cards is called 'President'. The rest of the players need to keep playing for the pecking order. The second person to finish is 'Vice President'. The third is 'Neutral'. If you have more than five people playing, any extras will also be neutrals. The second to last person is the 'Vice Asshole', and the last person...Yep. The Asshole. So the dealer deals and then the asshole has to give up his/her two best cards to the president. The president can give the asshole whatever two cards s/he wants to get rid of. The vice asshole gives their best card to the vice president, and the vice president gives them whatever card they want. Sometimes if people are nice they try to give the asshole and vice asshole at least useful cards; giving them cards that will make doubles or something. But obviously not always. The president starts the first round.
Oh there is strategy, but I won't tell you what it is. Because I used to be a STAR at this game, and I don't want to give away my secrets.
You are all hereby invited to a game of asshole at my house. There will be alcohol. Lots of alcohol. w0000000000000t!
hanacandi, I suddenly have a deep and abiding urge to play the card game called 'Asshole'. Do you know it? Apparently it is called 'President' in the UK. There are many versions of the rules, but these are the ones I know:The cards:
lowest card: three
Highest regular strength card: ace
the supercards: two, which can trump any other card, or any set of doubles; joker, which can trump absolutely anything, including triples (joker optional).
How to play:
The goal is to get rid of all your cards first. Proceeding around the table, each person needs to trump whatever card the person next to them just put down. For instance: person 1 puts down a pair of threes. Person 2 needs to put down a pair of something higher than that, and person 3, something higher than whatever they put down. If you don't have anything higher, you can pass. Whoever's cards at at the top of the pile wins the round, and gets to start the next round.
The first person to lose all their cards is called 'President'. The rest of the players need to keep playing for the pecking order. The second person to finish is 'Vice President'. The third is 'Neutral'. If you have more than five people playing, any extras will also be neutrals. The second to last person is the 'Vice Asshole', and the last person...Yep. The Asshole. So the dealer deals and then the asshole has to give up his/her two best cards to the president. The president can give the asshole whatever two cards s/he wants to get rid of. The vice asshole gives their best card to the vice president, and the vice president gives them whatever card they want. Sometimes if people are nice they try to give the asshole and vice asshole at least useful cards; giving them cards that will make doubles or something. But obviously not always. The president starts the first round.
Oh there is strategy, but I won't tell you what it is. Because I used to be a STAR at this game, and I don't want to give away my secrets.
You are all hereby invited to a game of asshole at my house. There will be alcohol. Lots of alcohol. w0000000000000t!
ASSHOLE FOR MAC USERS
Mar. 21st, 2003 05:54 pmAre you a mac user? Do you still have a classic environment? Join me in loving the card game called 'asshole'. You know you want to.
Download it here.
w00000t! I'm kicking it's ass. I think we can network them somehow so we can play each other. Oh yeah. I can kick your ass too.
w00000t! I'm kicking it's ass. I think we can network them somehow so we can play each other. Oh yeah. I can kick your ass too.
*horrified*
Mar. 21st, 2003 07:05 pmI hate it when people do this. Now, to be fair, this happens to us pretty often; there was a rash of booings through the Canadian national anthem this fall, though I can't think of why anyone would do that at that point in history. I know exactly why people were doing it last night in Montreal, but I'm disgusted.
Come on, people. Grow up.
