My grandmother taught me Canasta when I was a kid. Loved it, but don't remember the rules and I wonder what became of her set. Love Bridge, but not good enough to play with most people, so that is a no-go these days. Love Gin Rummy, too, but DH is not interested, so these days, if I play anything, it is Solitaire. Oh, and with my students, we would play Uno on indoor recess days!

My DH and I played bridge with his parents a lot until Alzheimer's prevented his mom from playing any more. DFIL now has a new love who also plays bridge, so we've played with them a couple of times. I always feel like I'm not good at it, and sometimes feel kind of lost, but DH and DFIL both say I play well.

DH and I also play cribbage from time to time.

Donna

The only card game we really play is cribbage, but I also enjoy auction 45s and most card games really. My only stipulation is brisk gameplay - I HATE when people deliberate too long or worse, don't plan their move in between hands.

Texas Hold 'em! I like Rummy games as well as Uno, Mille Bourne, and Cribbage. I, too, played Canasta with my grandma, but don't remember it at all.

eta Pinochle, I forgot about that until cawaps mentioned it. Used to play all the time with friends when my hubby was alive. I miss it!

My daughter taught me a game called James Bond that was pretty fun. Other kids games: 99, Speed.

I learned pinochle as a kid, but don't have anyone to play with these days.

I play lots of solitaire, mostly on the computer now, but when I was a kid it was all cards.

We used to play cards as kids but I have trouble with anything beyond Crazy 8s. I've decided I may have a kind of dyscalculia; I have so much trouble remembering numbers of any kind. I wish I could play, whenever someone pulls out a deck I have to make an excuse.

We play 500 Bid with my parents or my brother and SIL. It's a 4 player game with partners. I also play a solitaire game that my grandmother taught me but I don't know the name of it. You start out with 4 rows of 13 cards and remove the aces. You then try to get the cards in suit and number order (low to high) by playing in the open space. You get three goes to win the game.

Oh, and Hearts. Love Hearts-it was our go-to game at the shore in the summer!

I play hand, knee and foot in Tucson and in Chicagoland, once or twice a week. Fun.

I learned Canasta as a kid. I also used to play a card game called Shanghai taught to me by my bff's dad. Can't remember either one now!

Pitch. It's in that whole Hearts/Spades vein with trumps and bids and sets. I'd never heard of it before I met my husband. He's from Arkansas and all his relatives play it. I think it might be confined to that state!

We play Hearts when we aren't playing Scrabble.

Bridge is by far my favorite. We played every weekend in college until we moved here, the heart of Pitch country. NO ONE wanted to learn Bridge. They could play Spades, and I told them it's the same thing, kind of. People are just too intimidate by Bridge for some reason.

As a kid, we played all kinds of poker games on holidays. We would use peanuts as our money! As a teenager, hearts was really popular.

Chinese game, Tichu. Very fun. Lots of different rule sets so beware!

I dislike card playing on the whole. My husband is an excellent bridge player and I have decided to take up bridge as an anti-aging, brain health activity. Bridge keeps you thinking and sociable, two wins as we age.

We play Hand and Foot with a group of friends every now and then. Fun! I like Texas Hold 'Em, but I am not a serious card player, don't have a streak of competitiveness, so I would rather watch than play.