How to Play Sevens (The Card Game)

[@brigidmcdermott966]

Thank you so much for posting this. My Dad's age and Parkinsonism make finding things to do with him difficult. Apparently he played this as a child and your video made it easy to teach the other members of the family to play. You never know how much good you do when you put something out there 😀

[@EricBuffington]

This comment made my day! I'm so glad it was a good video for your family! Enjoy the game!

[@dwaynestiles1670]

Just watched your video, as my inlaws and I play this all the time but we call 7 of Spades. But we play it a tad different that what you show, as we play it that you can only play a card of a different suit if that card has been played in Spades. For example If I had the 10 of hearts and the 10 of spades has not been played I could not play in even though the hearts were at 9. We also count the points like someone else posted but the small cards are 5 points each and the 10 - king are 10 points each and the ace is 15 points. Thank you for the video.

[@EricBuffington]

That's a very interesting variation. I've never heard of playing that way. Sounds like fun! Thanks for sharing.

[@edrennalin]

@@EricBuffingtonwe play the same way that Dwayne mentioned (except we always start with the 7 of clubs and no other piles can go further than the progress of this pile) but we also leave in one Joker as a wild card. We also play that if you can’t make a move, the person to your left gives you one of their cards (their choice what they give and you miss your turn still) Once the joker is played, the card it was played as becomes unplayable and is worth 50 points at the end of the game. So people are constantly handing it around when people need a card. Hope that made sense

[@GardenPadawan]

​@@edrennalin, played very similar to your game around here.

[@kassandrajeffery7035]

My Nanna and Pop taught me how to play this when I was younger. The only difference is that we laid the other cards the same way as the 7s... and we scored points. The aim was still to be the first to run out of cards, but each time you passed, we'd knock on the table and that'd be a point against you. At the end of the game, we'd tally up the cards each person had left in their hand (Ace = 1, J = 11, Q = 12 & K = 13) and the person with the least or 0 points won the round. We'd continue for as many rounds as we liked and watch as the scores changed each time, adding them to the previous score. I can't remember, but I think we sometimes left the Jokers in, and if they were played and you couldn't replace the card with the true number/face card it was representing before it got covered by the next in line, then you'd be stuck with that card at the end of the round. If you could, you'd then have a Joker in your hand to try and block another player. Also, you want to try to get rid of your high cards first... moreso if you do use scoring to make it fun. That's where if you, say, have a Jack of Diamonds, and no other after it, you might try to hold onto it for a while, putting off someone else's plan to play the later cards. It could work against you, if another player uses up their hand before you, but if you can hold onto it 'til the end, you've guaranteed that someone will have some high cards to add to their score for that round. It can be really fun and pretty strategic. I'm in a board game group, and we have some special needs folk that attend our gatherings each week. I've been planning to teach them this for the last week or so and will finally do so this week. I hope they like it as much as I do! :)

[@EricBuffington]

I hope it goes well with the board game group! Sounds like fun!

[@johncollins3910]

The wife and I just learned this game last night. It was slightly diffrent and IDK if they were playing by house rules. The 7 of Diamonds was first. You could only lay the card of the same number on the other suits if that number in the diamns were already played. Examply if the lowest diamond was a 4 you could not play the 3 of spades. Also the Aces where either high or low but once the Ace of Diamods was played the rest could only be plade on the same side as the ace of diamonds meaning if it was played as high then the rest of the aces had to be played as high. Also if you could not play the player behind you would give you a card, So if you couldnt play you knew you were getting a king or ace of somthing.

[@columkenn]

We played this as kids. We dealt out seven cards each, and the first card was the seven of diamonds rather than spades. The leftover cards after dealing are in a pile faced down. When you can't play you pass and pick up the top card on the pile

[@SuperBiggballz]

when I was a child my grandmother and I played a game of 21 with multiple cards and used pennies as the betting system I wish I could remember how to play that game but for the life of me I can't I'm going to go try to play 7 with my family you video was great and very informative thank you from the Rubio family

[@EricBuffington]

I love that tradition of playing cards as a family! We do similar games! I've never heard of the game you are talking about, unless it is BlackJack.

[@schecter5035]

Eric Buffington I know this is a year later but yes 21’s is blackjack

[@eyeballpaul1792]

We played this game before I watched this except we start with the 7 of diamonds

[@EricBuffington]

It's a great quick game to play we really like it at my house! :)

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[@ellenahinojosa1172]

you should make more card games!! theres bunch of games to play & learn, cant really find good vids on youtube :) you seem to explain really good

[@cherrysnow4923]

i played a version where if your stuck and can't go then you draw a card from (either the person before or after you, i can't remember which one) and they can be selective by giving you an ace or king or queen or 2 (they get to choose which card they give to the person stuck on their move) and then the game can be won by strategy over chance

[@EricBuffington]

Yeah that version is super hard core! Usually leads to one person getting stuck with all the cards. :)

[@carlpotter2960]

Why not give the player a certain amount of cards and if they cannot go they draw from the deck.This will make you add cards.

[@dopeman7561]

This is way more fun playing it as fast as u can with no turns lol and even better if u dont play suits but colors. Also every thirty seconds we wud switch our hands that made it really hard. Otherwise it feels like a team game

[@dopeman7561]

Aaand it looks cooler if u start the 4 cards off in a square all diagonal from eachother and make it go in a spiral lol. Thanks for the game man!

[@KmpMusicProd]

I know this video is very old but I wonder if come to say ace of hearts does it then block the path going up or not?

[@YamekDrope]

We have been playing this game in Saudi arabia for years but we only play from number 7. We dont use any lower numbers. I wonder if there is any online version

[@EricBuffington]

I haven't found any online yet, but I'll keep looking. It's a fun one!

[@MrSultanRatrout]

It will be available on Jawaker.

[@YamekDrope]

@@MrSultanRatrout awesome thanks for the update 🙏🏽

[@jessetavo2128]

Thanks my brother wanted to play this game and I had no idea how to play

[@EricBuffington]

Happy to help. :) I hope you had fun playing together.

[@badtimegaming2209]

Can we play more than 2 cards

[@Vvvvvvyg]

is this game in casino as well

[@kohinoorkoning8709]

When it comes to happen if one of the players gets three or more kings game gets cancelled.... Not sure but it must be a rule of this game cuz others can manipulate that one who got 3 or more kings

[@dfillio8993]

I was taught this years ago but as a drinking game and when ever I played it you always start with all 7s already layed out Before you start playing

[@hjv3n780]

So when you initially start the game, what do you do if a player literally doesn't have any playable cards?

[@EricBuffington]

They skip and wait until they can play. In some versions I've seen when you skip all the other players give you one card of their choice, but that just doesn't seem nice to me. :) lol

[@chaneljohnson21cj]

My mother and grandparents play this but we call it fanTan and we play a little differently and we play for money nicklies and dimes

[@wenadia]

We start with 6 of hearts and called this card game "pass" good card game though

[@EricBuffington]

That's cool! I haven't heard it called that before.

[@SonyaBatten]

We played this game and it's basically a sorting out the cards came. Whoever starts wins.

[@EricBuffington]

+sonyasmixedmedia If there are more than 2 players it works better. After playing a couple of times, some strategy starts to come out.

[@fduarte209]

How many players is this cause if you do 7 players there’s gana be left over cards who gets those cards?

[@EricBuffington]

You just deal out all the cards to as many players as you want.

[@robertclark4929]

Nice thank you.

[@jamiescottjames2662]

We play with any amount of people. First person to dump all their cards wins.

[@theneonbomb9586]

Cool is it 2 player?

[@EricBuffington]

you can have more. It's actually better with more players, with 2 players you always know what the other person has.

[@drahunter213]

With sevens I thought you can play with 4 or 2..that's how I remember playing

[@EricBuffington]

Sevens is usually played with more than 2 players. With two you know exactly what the other player has, so it's not much fun.

[@giuseppeamato7563]

Why are the cards so big?

[@EricBuffington]

Just to be silly! We found those at the dollar store and thought they were funny.

[@allenm9]

so it's like Uno but more complicated

[@EricBuffington]

I've never thought of it that way, but a little, yes.

[@siddharthjain1313]

WTF

[@TheMrStapleton]

the cards are wrong it is suppose to be 7 of hearts

[@EricBuffington]

oh, that's great that you start that way with 7's.