How playing cards look around the world

[@vampire_juicebox]

The ladder is always the most iconic loteria card in my mind, partly because of how surreal the art seems, but mainly because my introduction to loteria was the vine featuring the card.

[@ChryslerPtCruiserWoodie]

Escelera ooooh

[@hagane_0]

@@ChryslerPtCruiserWoodie YEAH FUCCK YEAH!!

[@pragmatic]

Did you know the game Snakes and Ladders was originally a very old Persian game? I think it had cultural, religious or philosophical significance... Something like the wheel/tree of life. Oh, now l can't get rid of the image of "The World" tarot card in my head cause JJ flashed it on my screen.

[@waltysalamander]

Was it David Lopez?

[@victorleiva8195]

Hey J.J. What do you think about Hong Kong and the protests against the Chinese government.

[@theplanetmercury7487]

I think that sentimentalized board games deserve an episode. In america, a game like Scrabble has a lot of cultural importance.

[@brokoblin6284]

We have Shogi 🎌 but I feel like a lot of older peiple play, though Karuta is played by a lot of young people especially high school girls byy experience at leas

[@rabidlorax1650]

I’d like to imagine when our generation gets older we will sentimentalize video games like age of empires and civilization.

[@brokoblin6284]

@@rabidlorax1650 I mean we already do with things like mario

[@AidestheKiwi]

Also, let's not forget "Monopoly". That boardgame is iconic and used everywhere.

[@theplanetmercury7487]

Narwini.

[@mickeyrube6623]

About the tarot decks: People in Europe still use these to play a variety of games. In Italy, and other regions of south and central europe. They were used as such while in France and north western europe people started to associate them with fortune telling, even though they had no such reputation in other parts of europe (or at least where never seen as especially made for fortune-telling, and never sperated from the actual game they were designed to play). Soon the games nearly died out, and even playing card experts started to assume that they were extinct, until players from small villages and secluded mountain regions were discovered, having never stop using tarot cards to play games! I think there is now a bit of a revival of tarot deck game playing.

[@TheLucasdms]

Do you know of any game rules that use the tarot deck? I have been looking for it since I found out tarot was originally playig cards.

[@HatterTobias]

Those tarot card games are very exciting (especially French Tarot) , i wish those tarot divination cards never became popular in the first place

[@baristheperson4255]

That’s cool but jojo

[@eifbkcn]

I was a bit surprised that he seemed unaware of the tarot nouveau, which ought to have come up when he was researching the video.

[@Beanmachine91]

Tarot games are fun

[@DemetriosLevi]

I'm not kidding when I say I was playing cards with my grandparents a few days ago and was wanting to know card games from around the world. JJ telepathy confirmed

[@Publius7619]

Kinda same. I was using heroforge and saw a card option and started thinking about cards from the globe. That was only a few hours ago. Wild.

[@carlareneeucero7372]

Same here, I've been all the afternoon watching JJ's videos thinking "man, I hope he uploads a new video soon"

[@selahanany5645]

@@carlareneeucero7372 that happened to me like three times

[@JJLiu-xc3kg]

It’s true, I’m telepathic.

[@DetroitBORG]

I was always told Euchre was a Michigan thing.

[@seans767]

you were lied to. big fan btw

[@frunnahaus]

It’s played throughout the whole upper Midwest and Canada

[@ogorangeduck]

The line between Midwest and Canada can be blurry

[@justinescoto4621]

I'm from Windsor. My old aunts play it.

[@gabrielszakaly6232]

Big here in Northern Indiana too. At least close to the state line.

[@AaronOnTheTrails]

Euchre is a big deal in the US Midwest as well. The high school I went to even had a tournament each year.

[@JJMcCullough]

Sounds like it would be hard to be too cool for THAT school

[@ifitis22]

@@JJMcCullough my high school and even college (Michigan) had euchre tournaments as well and it’s ubiquitous enough to not be a loser thing although euchre is popular in my family so perhaps I’m biased

[@sokonek1]

My friends and I in college (Wisconsin) would play Euchre every Tuesday night

[@Roborebonzo]

Here in Illinois euchre is very popular. Its played at parties, and bars have euchre tournaments.

[@zackbrand9311]

There are a lot of theories where Euchre came from but it’s most commonly thought to be from German immigrants to Pennsylvania in the early 1800’s, and later spread all throughout the us and world, now only played in the Midwest (the most culturally German area in the US) and Ontario to any major extent.

[@hoodclassicsofcalifornia]

These videos centered around countries, cultures around the world and their games, foods etc. are tremendous. Keep it up JJ

[@p1mason]

Australia has a HUGELY sentimentalised game called Two Up. It's a gambling game that was popular in the early 1900s and honestly is incredibly rare nowadays (not least because public venues need a gaming license to host games). However, it's popularity in the early 1900s has baked the game into the nation's foundation myths. Myths which, by and large, centre on Australia's first military expeditions as an "independent" force in the second boer war and (even more significantly) WWI. According to legend, rank and file soldiers in these wars would spend nights in their units playing endless games of two up, gambling money, rations or anything they could get their hands on. Officers, for their part, are reputed to have attempted to discourage the game. These days, the game is mostly only played as part of ANZAC day celebrations in pubs and services clubs. For much of the twentieth century, these venues didn't have gaming licenses and the ANZAC day celebrations were in explicit defiance of laws that customarily were not enforced (official disapproval is considered an important part of the tradition). These days, most pubs and clubs actually do have gaming licenses (pokies and other forms of gambling form a significant part of pub and club income these days). However these licenses most often specifically exclude two-up so that the ANZAC day games can remain technically illegal. (As in the past though, authorities make a big show of looking the other way on ANZAC day). That said, the game itself is relatively simple. A group of players stand in a circle. One player (called the spinner) has a wooden paddle (about the size of a 30cm ruler) and two pre-1930 Australian pennies. Another player in the circle is his opponent. Both players put in equal bets and the spinner uses the paddle to toss both coins at once. The spinner keeps tossing the coins until he gets two heads or two tails from a single toss. Two heads means the spinner wins the pot, and he then challenges the next player in the circle. Two tails means the challenger wins the pot and he becomes the new spinner, and challenges the next player around the circle from the spinner. In either case, the loser of a given round can stay in the circle and wait for another turn as challenger for as long as he had money to cover the bets.The game keeps going until one person wins all the money. Anyway, thought you might be interested, because this is a game that indeed looms large in Australian culture and is heavily sentimentalised, despite being very rarely played.

[@jayogas1310]

When are we getting J.J. teaching us regional back alley gambling games?

[@justballin8508]

dreidels😳

[@jakubpociecha8819]

Haven't we got it now?

[@sampatton146]

Bourre

[@ppborel2891]

Poleana 😳

[@ashkitt7719]

@@justballin8508 Yeah especially since Chanukkah starts December 10 this year. He should talk about dreidel.

[@JoaoPedro-iw3qd]

Here in Brazil we have an old gambling game called "jogo do bicho". If I remember correctly it started as a way to get prizes in Rio de Janeiro's municipal zoo, and later evolved to a much bigger thing.

[@cesare3016]

Vish, quero só ver se ele vai falar disso. Ia ser massa.

[@maltron1472]

The French have a monopoly on cards, it’s time we show them a revolution

[@JJMcCullough]

The face cards should be overthrown and replaced with an egalitarian committee of public safety representing all suits.

[@maltron1472]

@@JJMcCullough wearing only business-casual clothing

[@McGuignol70]

@@JJMcCullough Interestingly enough, during the French Revolution some people tried to replace the old cards associated with royalty with new ones featuring Freedom, Justice and other revolutionary values of that kind, but it never really took off.

[@aysenur6761]

"If they have no cards, let them play chess."

[@cafesportivo9004]

I see what you did there

[@principetnomusic]

So, being Koryo-saram (i.e. Russo-Korean), I can tell you about two perspectives: - Russians, as you said, use the French cards, but we don't normally use the *whole* deck: traditional Russian card games such as durak do not use jokers or values from 2 to 5, so the Russian deck only has 36 cards instead. Coincidentally, that means the six, or _шестёрка (shestyorka)_ is the lowest-value card in Russian card games, and as such people in positions of low status or subservient to someone can be called "sixes". - Koreans use the Japanese hanafuda deck, although Korean games are different from Japanese ones: the Korean term is _hwa-tu_ although the diaspora in Russia speaks in a different dialect and calls it _ха-то (ha-to)_ instead. I think most Koryo-saram probably feel the same kind of attachment to hanafuda cards as Chinese-Americans do towards mahjong: it may not be explicitly Korean and it's not something people play often, but it's an old tradition and so it's cherished because of that.

[@cosmicostrich3657]

My comment was seen when JJ scrolled through the comments. To be in an award winning video is the greatest achievement in my life.

[@MasterGeekMX]

I remember Mahjongg for a Microsoft videogamegame in which they used the "tiles" as a sort of singleplayer puzzle game. The tiles are arranged in different 3D structures and you have to select two unobstructed matching tiles to remove them from the board in order to clear all the tiles to win. It is qute relaxing to be honest.

[@RakoonCD]

That's Solitaire Mahjongg

[@glock4455]

that deck missing the 8 9 and 10 cards is used extensively in brazil as well, primarily to play truco and its derivative games (like fodinha)

[@nicolassamanez6590]

nunca ouvi falar de fodinha, tem um link explicando ae?

[@joaopedrobusnardo3522]

Nunca joguei truco com esse baralho. Quando eu tava aprendendo eu não entedia porque tirar os 8, 9 e 10, esse vídeo foi uma revelação pra mim kkkk

[@El8MAGNATE]

Truc, as it is called here, is also played in Valencia, Spain. It was brought to Argentina by Valencian immigrants.

[@chogno98]

Truco también es popular entre los arrieros y campesinos de la Patagonia chilena.

[@glock4455]

@@nicolassamanez6590 Edit: achei um link explicando copag.com.br/blog/detalhes/fodinha Esse é o jeito q eu jogava: na fodinha o valor das cartas é o mesmo do truco, incluindo o sistema de manilhas do truco paulista. Pra jogar: vire uma carta, e distribua uma carta para cada jogador, esse jogador coloca a carta na testa sem ver o valor e, vendo o valor das cartas dos adversários, chuta se vence ou não a rodada. O número de cartas distrubuidas aumenta em 1 a cada rodada e a carta selecionada é aleatória. O número de "venço" chutado deve ser igual ou superior ao número de cartas em cada mão. Se ninguém falar que faz, a última pessoa é obrigada a falar que vencerá. Cada previsão errada retira um ponto (a quantidade é decidida previamente), quem chegar a 0 primeiro perde Faz tempo q eu n jogo ent tá meio foda lembrar de tudo, mas creio que é isso ai

[@gabriellavedier9650]

Playing Loteria with my grandmother and aunt is the single most iconic memory I have. As is appropriate, our markers were dried pinto beans and we played at the big dining room table during the day after lunch was over. Thanks for the memories coming back. I miss both of them. Also, I'm surprised you didn't mention Tarot minor arcana has 56 cards, there are four face cards. King, Queen, Knight, Page.

[@badassitudepostergirl4229]

Here in the states, Euchre is the game of Michigan, you cannot ever find anyone from Michigan that doesn’t know how to play a mad game of Euchre.

[@Sgt_Kilborn]

They say the same thing about people from Indiana

[@cohenwiegers887]

I'm from Illinois and I know plenty of people that play Euchre lol

[@Zenith_123]

Try hearts, its better

[@majkus]

It is important that people not misunderstand this! You are not asserting that Michigan is the only place that Euchre is played, or even widely played; you are asserting that, in Michigan, the game is almost universally known. Bless me, what _do_ they teach them in schools nowadays?

[@gabrielenicoli5065]

Love this :))) as an Italian I can add that we basically equally play with both the regional deck and the Anglo one, just for different games. Double the fun!

[@petarkardum5063]

Same in Dalmatia (Croatia) where we also use the Italian deck.

[@davideperego8287]

loteria: *exists* me: "escaleraaaaaaaaaaaaa uuuuuuooooooooooooooo"

[@sebastianrosa7935]

8:35 That "I know" is so genuine that it's hilarious to me.

[@isayeet]

AAAAHH HE MENTIONED LOTERIA I’M FREAKING OUT

[@JJMcCullough]

I’ve just been waiting!

[@stproducciones9140]

Oh your avatar is a fish! I'm playing the fifty!

[@Lizzyvallesrodriguez]

I like the way he pronounced “loteria”

[@howdoipickaname9815]

@@JJMcCullough My assistant from high school was Spanish and when I mentioned loteria, she had a similar reaction. A classmate and I played a game one time, and I won somehow. It was a blast.

[@evanleaf1772]

A very iconic Japanese game thats very sentimental is the game of Shogi, Its considered a Japanese variant of chess but its super complex and could be considered a game of its own. My grandma would tell me stories about her father who was apparently the best in their hometown in Japan at shogi. Where people would come up to their house and play against him from dusk till dawn. Its a really interesting game.

[@cescobb4647]

Funny how the tarot cards are inspired by italy and there is an upside down hanged man arcana

[@JJMcCullough]

Yikes

[@tahiro9589]

Mussolini

[@probabilmente_paolo]

@@JJMcCullough I usually use the Neapolitan cards to play even with my friends and we don't see them as an old people tradition(I am 14)

[@probabilmente_paolo]

We play game such as ''scopa" snd "scopone",but there are other very traditional games

[@LieseFury]

Hanging upside down is a traditional Italian execution for treason, which is why it is a tarot card and why it happened to the Mussolinis.

[@oliverthomas-couch]

I lived in Spain when I was a baby and despite being born in Swansea and living in England most of my life I feel a slight connection to the old Spanish cards from my youth

[@NealForAmbassador]

Ye WOT mate?!

[@brisamargutierrezparra2517]

In Lotería, I love the mermaid card "La Sirena"

[@mjr_schneider]

As a kid whenever I went to visit my German grandparents we would play a board game called "Fang den Hut" (Catch the Hat) in which each player has these cute little hats that you "catch" by stacking them on top of one another. Another one of my favourite games was crokinole, which I always assumed was also of German origin but it turns out is actually from here in Canada.

[@mrsnufflegums]

I wouldn't mind seeing a video from you on the history of Chess or Billiards, they're pretty culturally iconic i've found and referenced in many works (like homestuck)

[@yonatanbeer3475]

And also some of chess's cousins from around the world, such as Shogi and Xiangqi

[@EnigmaticLucas]

My grandparents have always called Solitaire “Solitary”

[@JustANervousWreck]

Same

[@stproducciones9140]

I mean solitaire literally means solitary, right? Because you play it by yourself?

[@ifeeltiredsleepy]

@@stproducciones9140 Weirdly solitaire is actually a category of card games. The one most people think of in US/Canada when you hear solitaire is Klondike solitaire, which is also called Patience in the UK.

[@stproducciones9140]

@@ifeeltiredsleepy yeah i know there's some variety of solitaire games, but I think they're all for one player

[@ifeeltiredsleepy]

@@stproducciones9140 Yes the word is used to describe a number of different table top solo games. Just the one we think of as "solitaire," popularized by Windows, is technically Klondike/Patience.

[@pedroleuenberger4270]

In Argentina the most popular and “national” card game is truco and you play it without using the 8 and 9.

[@pedroleuenberger4270]

@@sohopedecoAnd I thought it was an Argentinian thing lol

[@cristianmaidana5233]

It's also a very sentimentalised game, I mean every argentinian has played it at least one time. PS: we use de spanish type of cards without the 8 and 9. I really like the game. Quiero retruco!!!!

[@FOLIPE]

@@cristianmaidana5233 the rules are different in São Paulo, Minas and the south (I think there it's the same as Argentina) but the game is more or less the same.

[@giovannilloretsorribas2836]

Here in Valencia we only use half the deck, but I think the rules are the same as well

[@diegomastro5681]

@@sohopedeco é quase o mesmo jogo, porem no argentino nao tem manilhas, e tem um lance adicional que é o "envido" , onde voce deve ter duas cartas do mesmo naipe

[@yashabykhovsky2807]

Russia has a famous card game called “Duraka.” It roughly translates to “Fools’ Game.” I recommend you do some research on it, is very fun, and has both elements of luck and skill.

[@naponroy]

It's "durak" is usual parlance.

[@yashabykhovsky2807]

@@naponroy Durak is an insult, the game is called «Дурака» which transliterates to Duraka

[@derschmitter9198]

@@naponroy In Germany a lot of people play this, as it has been brought over by russo-germans, and we also call it durak.

[@jamesmccabe3041]

A video on chess would be interesting. There are a surprising amount of variants across the world with interesting stylistic differences as well as differences in the actual rules. Also the progression of the game throughout the years is pretty neat too.

[@chloeedmund4350]

If I ever get to travel abroad again, I'm getting playing cards as a souvenir.

[@eddieengland470]

This is what makes your content good, no one else on KZbin even thinks of these subjects. Great work

[@Noah-ws8ho]

Here's an interesting one; The most common cards in Southern Germany, have the hearts, leaves bells and acorns; but the values are also quite different. In contrary to the Latin cards, bavarian cards skip the lower digits (2 to 5/6, depending); you don't have Jacks or Queens, but rather Unter (U) and Ober (O). Also, the king is placed between the 9 and the 10, for some reason. And finally, you have an Ace, for 32 (or 36) cards total.

[@manfredrunner9041]

When you said the italian cards end with 7 i immediatly thought of the German Cards as they start with 6. However in many games played with these cards every of the 6 is thrown out except for the Weli (at least that's what they call it here) wich is the 6 of hearts but also has all the other symbols on it and oftentimes can be used as if it were every colour. Regarding the culture around those cards i think they are mostly used in southern germany and Austria because when i was living in northern germany i never came in contact with them. As well as associating them with southern Germany i also associate them with more rural areas and depict 4 old dudes sitting in the Tavern drinking beer and playing for a little bit of money at their "Stammtisch".

[@kated442]

Mahjong and Hanafuda both involve making sets from cards/tiles, so there’s kinda a connection there! I’ve played them both and they’re a lot of fun once you figure out the sets.

[@sampatton146]

I grew up in Louisiana and Rook was a popular card game especially for children. The suits are color based and have 14 cards each.

[@jamiestarr3086]

I was I a bad mood and now I'm not. Thanks for making me smile J.J. ❤️

[@Waldzkrieger]

The best card designs are obviously those "Iraqi Most Wanted" ones from the 2003 Iraq War.

[@Ali-gt8wj]

hi waldzkrieger

[@saulgoodmanKAZAKH]

This reminds me of the video, where the Russian politics were explained using playing cards.

[@gagugarila45]

I think one of the most sentimentalised part time game in india is LUDO , it's a board game I don't even know is it's played outside India. But it's a popular family dice board game , and almost every board has snakes and ladders game at the back of it , so it's 2 games in one which is so nostalgic for Indians. So much so that a mobile app of that game Ludo king is one of the most popular gaming mobile app in india. Also keep it up JJ , you are one of the most wholesome youtuber , and specially i am a fan of this world series you do. Love from india 💓

[@TrialByDance]

JJ: *mentions Major Arcana* my brain: *must...resist...urge...to make JoJo reference*

[@JJMcCullough]

The what now

[@TheSteam02]

@@JJMcCullough You don't need to know

[@Rice_lederthepriceleader]

@@JJMcCullough Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. It’s an anime/manga series.

[@vedrancorluka1332]

Yes

[@vedrancorluka1332]

@@TheSteam02 its greato

[@kennethepps3425]

There is also the variation of the deck layout for Pinochle decks. My fathers family used to love to play it at gatherings.

[@GothicHorror10]

Tarot decks weren't originally only made for fortune telling, they're for expanded card games called variously Tarocco, Tarock, Tarokk, Tarrochi, or Tarot. There are other games one can play with them such as Königrufen or Husarin, and just like with how the suits and face cards of standard decks of cards vary between nations and regions, the games played with Tarot decks are equally varied.

[@edvardskalva]

Im from Latvia and everyone here knows how to play durak (I think its a russian game by origin). Its played with the traditional 52 card deck. Plenty of older people play card games but the youth play this game very often at parties or sleepovers too (more often than poker)

[@flavioamico2179]

As an Italian I can say that even though we have a large variety of cards, the most common are the Neapolitan ones, and most people I know refer to the whole set of old Italian cards as "carte napoletane" no matter the regional difference

[@samuele7098]

It must depend on where you live: where I grew they don't even sell those and I have never seen anyone use a type different from the local one. I didn't even know the neapolitan ones existed until I played with people from the south

[@artietrasshko7141]

Russia has a variation on the Anglo French 52 card deck where the numbers only go up to 6. A popular game they play with this deck is called “Durak” which translates to fool which is what you’re allowed to call the loser of each game.

[@theSultanofSquares]

As you mentioned, there's lots of games which are seen as traditional "old people" games. I live in Bavaria, and the game that fits that description here is Schafkopf. Everyone knows of it, the decks are sold everywhere, and basically every bar and pub and biergarten will even have decks to lend to tables. It uses a Tarock deck sans the 6s (7-10, J, Q, K). It is very complicated, but simply put it is a trick-taking game with several sub-games in it, some of which are recognizable as related to other western trick-taking games like Skat (popular in Northern Germany) and Hearts. It is often played for money and involves some amount of bluffing and betting with the setting of tricks, symmetric 2-on-2 team-play, and asymmetric 3-on-1 games as well. But because it is so complicated, I would estimate probably 90+% of younger people don't have any clue how to play. It is basically all just cultural background, both the unique card designs as well as the image of old people in Lederhosen and Dirndl playing it at a folk festival.

[@blaykebridge8315]

french tarot is soooo much fun and there are lots of games to play with a tarot sized deck it’s great

[@FootballPsychoPS3T]

Antique Spanish/Latin American cards are actually collectible items in a game called Uncharted: Golden Abyss. That was my only knowledge of card decks used in other parts of the world before now. Thanks J.J.

[@joaquinclavijo7052]

In Uruguay we have a card game called "truco" (obviously with a spanish deck) that has strangely retained popularity since centuries ago, its very popular among high schoolers and elders alike, in a similar way to poker it is based in lying and deception, it also has its own "code language" made from facial gestures to be able to secretly tell your cards to a teammate without speaking. You can see that a lot of the terminology and idioms used in truco have made its way into uruguayan spanish.

[@julianbeltran4200]

In Argentina it's the same

[@cormacmacsuibhne2867]

I should mention cards in geography when we are talking about Globalism.

[@BigKilla99]

Yeah you should

[@rossapolis]

Old people in Wisconsin play Euchre all the time here. My friend's dad used to play it all the time. He was playing until he passed away in his 80's.

[@drinks1019]

My dad and his dad used to play euchre a lot during breaks in work. It’s very common in the Midwest of America where they are from (Ohio). But here in Texas we basically play not much but Poker and of course all the common card games.

[@tocarules]

Euchre is awesome, but very susceptible to cheating. You'll like Hearts as its very simular, but uses the whole deck. Theres "going alone" where you instead of trying to avoid getting hearts your actually playing possum then it becomes obvious your trying to get all the hearts and the Queen of spades.

[@drinks1019]

@@tocarules yah, my Grandfather (the same on that plays Euchre) plays hearts quite a lot. I’m more of a poker and Go Fish kind of guy myself.

[@dorci.pomidorci]

One of the most popular games with Italy style cards is briškula. It's very popular to play at family gradings and traditional celebrations but it's also played as a afternoon pass time.

[@mg4361]

'Mensch, ärgere dich nicht!' is probably the most iconic german board game. The name means: 'man, don't get angry!'

[@mdmenzel]

And it was adopted into other western countries with games like Ludo, Trouble, and Sorry

[@ksplatypus]

As a Mexican-American, Lotería has A LOT of nostalgia and cultural value to us. It's one of the many games my family plays whenever we have get-togethers for Thanksgiving or Christmas or whatever. I've never seen those more "traditional" Hispanic cards in my life though. We only ever use the Anglo version. Speaking of which, we also have lots of games using those, but they tend to be played with real-world consequences or with more "physicality." I'd look up manotazo and burro castigado as good examples.

[@Heyitsann]

Vietnamese children often play a gambling game during New Years or parties it’s legal fun lol

[@theGamingJanina]

In Northen Croatia Hungarian (German) cards are used and in Coastal Croatia Trieste Italian cards are used

[@alvaropenademiguel2308]

Loved the topic!! Greetings from Spain :)

[@Bopnan]

3:43 Yes and no. The Spanish set of playing cards does go up to 9 (and then 10, 11 and 12 which are represented by the knave, the knight and the king respectively). The reason why there are decks of 40 is because a lot of the more popular games, mainly truc/truco, mus, escoba, etc., make use of that number of cards. You can buy a deck with 50 cards (the 48 regular cards plus two Jokers) or you can just buy the 40 card deck (no Jokers).

[@popezosimusthethird269]

Hey, remember when the french got tired of the spooOOOoooky tarot card making the game so associated with crooks and fortune-tellers that they made a brand new, more respectable tarot deck specifically for playing (the Tarot Bourgeois) instead of scamming people out of their money to do really bad cold-reading? It's okay, neither do the french, no one plays tarot anymore.

[@c-howles]

Love this! I was recently looking into this history of mahjong myself so it was nice to see that in here!

[@luisfelipebayardomelgoza4104]

Here in México the Spanish style cards are very rare, everyone uses the normal one. Also my favorite lotería Card is El negrito, because it makes americans uncomfortable.

[@benyseus6325]

Esos gringos y se ahogan en un vaso de agua.

[@colltonrighem]

Soy americano así todavía estoy aprendiendo la lengua. Si traduces eso frase, aproximadamente tienes la frase “those dumb foreigners drown in a glass of water” en inglés. ¿Significas que somos demasiado susceptible? Insultos en otras lenguas son extaño jaja

[@DarkPsychoMessiah]

@@colltonrighem It's means drowning in a glass of water, something similar to making a mountain out of a molehill

[@colltonrighem]

@@DarkPsychoMessiah Lmao thanks. Good to know I was half right I guess

[@vincenzorutigliano5435]

The gringo cards are not "the normal one"

[@yorgunsamuray]

This Spanish set used to be at my grandma’s home and they seemed so exotic to me, because the prevalent style being the Anglo-French ones in Turkey, these things with swords, coins and so on, with an extra “knight on a horse” face card would be so different. Later I learned that it was the Spanish style, I wondered how they ended up in our home in Istanbul. And when I got to know the tarot cards, I immediately remembered that deck.

[@bildardruck5756]

I would have a new video topic about games for you: The Chaturanga family of boardgames. A family of strategic boardgames originating in India. The most known game of this family in the west is Chess. But there are a lot of regional descendants of this family around the world. In China and Vietnam they have Xiangqi. In Korea they play Janggi. In Thailand they play Makruk. In Japan they play Shogi. And in Ethiopia they play Senterej. They are even a lot more historic games which aren't played anymore. The objective in all games of this family is to capture the King of the opponent.

[@線性質量子鬚眉山區別]

I was xiangqi champion in my school district when I was 15.

[@1995amittai1]

In Israel we have a famous game called Taki which is a bit similar to Uno. The creator of the game met a Japanese woman called Taki, which means waterfall and loved her name, so decided to name his game after her. The reason for the name is that there are 'Taki' cards in the deck which allow you to pour all of your cards of a specific colour to the bundle. Another game is played with the 52 cards called Yaniv, we imported it from Nepal and it is sort of like Blackjack with multiple people.

[@benas_st]

*Sees Loteria* huh, no idea what that is *a faint memory comes back* ESCALERA OOOOH

[@marafolse8347]

I love the whimsy and honest fascination that this video has. This is absolutely the kind of thing I research on a Wednesday night for 4 hours on Wikipedia, and this video just gives me that feeling of discovery and “huh!”

[@lordbusiness-qs4ok]

11:46 Pokemon cards!

[@jenniferbrown913]

Playing cards was pretty much all my family did growing up. Me, my brothers, my sister, and cousins learned how to play from our parents, aunts, and uncles. I'm 40 years old, from America, and white (if it matters). Bridge, Canasta, and Whist were MY grandparents' games. They were born in 1918 for perspective. My parents' taught us how to play Spades, Hearts, Gin Rummy. And then, we would add little variations to those games; sometimes creating whole new games, like 500 (stemming from Gin Rummy); sometimes just adding rules to the old games, like Spades. Poker became big worldwide when I was in my 20s, but I already knew how to play by then. I also like dice games and Dominoes. Sadly, it seems like sitting around with other humans and playing cards in person while listening to music is a lost art these days. This video made me nostalgic. I used to go to Canada to go to casinos because you only had to be 19, not 21 like in the states, and back then, you didn't need a passport to cross the border. Good times.

[@Joygloom]

I dunno about the rest of Canada, but in my small rural Ontarian town, mini-stick hockey was THE shit when I was a kid.

[@BigBadBeard-jo4xn]

Knock hockey?

[@nikolagrahovac3716]

In Croatia we use italian, german and french style. The German style ones are used in continental Croatia for traditional games such as Belot or Bela. We usually call them "Mađarice" or in English "The Hungarians" as the country Hungary. If you buy them the names on the cards will usually be in either german, hungarian or croatian. The Italian style ones are used on the coast for games such as Briškula and will rarely be used in other parts of the country. The French style ones are usually used for games like Poker or for drinking games and are becoming more popular with newer generations.

[@Mman07311]

I'm a Mexican American and lotería is fun as hell

[@donfelice29]

Among young Italian immigrant descendants in Canada, the “older” games are very popular, like Briscola and Scopa. Including some North American variations. The most popular deck is the napolitano one. And wands are swords in that deck.

[@jakubpociecha8819]

"Trump cards" "President cards" Cheeky move,JJ

[@harrybetteridge7532]

Did you spot Trump as El Diablo when he showed modern versions of Mexican cards.

[@jakubpociecha8819]

@@harrybetteridge7532 Yup,I did lol

[@zscriptwriter]

Thank you J.J. You’re a pretty genuine person With a unique voice and personality.

[@stefanobollani4503]

Why I'm not even remotely interested in any of of the topics of your videos but nonetheless your channel is one of the ones I enjoy the most on youtube? How is every video of yours so good?

[@badgerhorsburgh5093]

I grew up in Cornwall, and there was a thriving Euchre scene in the pubs there (and my Mum is constantly trying to get my friends to play it)

[@karldazzi4217]

As an Italian I can confirm the debate on which deck is actually the best is very strong.

[@JJMcCullough]

What is your opinion

[@karldazzi4217]

@@JJMcCullough napoli Because my grandma will not feed me anymore if I say otherwise.

[@NIDELLANEUM]

It feel so strange when I look at other variants, being so used to Neapolitan ones. I once played with Sicilian cards, and I had a hard time being used to them

[@hilariousbenjamin5614]

Piacentine and Romagnole are of course the best, and not because I'm biased (I am) But if I could I'd collect all of them, they're all so pretty~

[@karldazzi4217]

@@hilariousbenjamin5614 aren't we all

[@bangerheadboy]

As a Puerto Rican i can say that the Latin card’s definitely hold a lot of sentimental value. Whenever I see those colorful clubs it makes me think of my Abuela. I can vividly picture my family playing brisca

[@ilaripurojarvi2283]

In Finland, we have a card game called "Musta Petteri". Your goal is to get sets of families or other symbols, but avoid Musta Petteri, a black man because 1900s Finland was obviously racist. You divide cards amongst the players, and then take turns picking cards from the person next to you. After all the cards are in sets the one with Musta Petteri loses.

[@JJMcCullough]

I think they have this game in Holland as well

[@ylhajee]

@@JJMcCullough I think you might mean the Dutch version of Black Lady? That's the only card game I know that comes close to this, although you don't immediately lose if you get the lady of spades. It's just the card with the most minus points. (I think 10 of the total 28). It's called Hartenjagen (=Hunting hearts) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lady nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartenjagen

[@DavidVerch]

My grandmother flew from Florida to Montreal on Eastern Airlines back in the 70s. Every flight she would get a deck of cards. When we went through her things after she died we were amazed how many decks she had. She was a card players player. She played cards every day in her condo in Miami. She could shuffle the deck like no one else. In any case thank you for this video. On another note, I work in power plants and they play a game with cards where they deal the entire deck to each player, then they each throw down the cards and the dealer collects them. I guess they are looking for who throws the highest or lowest card or something.

[@loworochi]

Love your videos JJ! :)

[@gjohnston5910]

Great video. Playing cards has always been an enlightened way to pass the time. I would appreciate a video delving more into its history.

[@ronan615]

Similarly to Mahjong, my grandfather emiggrated from Egypt and backgammon was a major staple in my mother's household growing up.

[@noahnemni6593]

My grandfather is from Egypt too and he and my dad play backgammon. Didn’t realize it was an Egyptian connection!

[@neonbleached5685]

Ludo/Pachisi is very popular in the indian subcontinent and its origins date back to the 6th century. I always remembered seeing Ludo cafe's and game shops when i visited pakistan

[@Sgt_Kilborn]

You talked about how the molasses trade in Canada is some big crooked scheme based out of Quebec in one of your Canadian items videos, and you said it would be another video. Do you know when that would be? Love your stuff!

[@user-wb6po6xu5e]

When I was in middle school we played what we called "slap" or "ESP" (idk what that stands for though). The object of the game is to obtain the whole deck. The playing cards were separated into equal decks and you would take turns putting cards down into a stack. There were specific combinations that would appear (ex. two of the same cards was a double, a king/queen was a marriage, a king-other card-queen was a divorce, etc etc) and when they appeared, you could slap the cards on the table to take the stack. Face cards had specific rules that went with them. Depending on the face card, the next player had to give up a certain amount of cards. Unless they were lucky enough to pull another face card, the original person would get to take the whole stack that was laid down. There would be huge groups of us that would go wild when playing this game. Super loud smacks on the desk and kids arguing over whose hand was touching the cards the most lol. Even some teachers would play with us.

[@MrSean2001MU]

ERS, not ESP. Egyptian Ratscrew. I remember playing that a bunch in Boy Scouts. The older scouts (high school senior aged or so) would often play it while wearing class rings but when they did, they didn't allow the younger scouts to join in on that specific round.

[@user-wb6po6xu5e]

@@MrSean2001MU thanks for the correction!

[@MrSean2001MU]

@@user-wb6po6xu5e You're welcome!

[@robertcurrie1160]

You can't beat a game of DOMINO'S but when I was a kid we played a card game called HAPPY FAMILIES.. ps, i live in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@respectedgentleman4322]

Yes!! This. Happy families used to be big across the UK. Not sure if it's still going or not.

[@danishzuhairi338]

@@respectedgentleman4322 i used to play them a lot during my childhood (im Malaysian)

[@TheCynedd]

Fun video, JJ. 👍 (your videos just keep getting more fun and your hair keeps getting more gorgeous 😊).

[@zahraridha6339]

Holy your accent is so Canadian it makes me, a fellow citizen, feel American.

[@alexandrasantoro5853]

in puerto rico, people are super into playing domino & using the spanish cards. but as a puerto rican italian, i grew up playing the sicilian briscola cards

[@Sysminadd]

Love this topic!! I was waiting to here a mention of dominos or “bones” 🦴!

[@kosinusify]

I'm from rural Bavaria, and nobody uses Bicycle cards here. A few people do use them because there are more cards, but they usually still prefer the Bavarian cards. If you went to a party and tried to use Anglo-American cards here, you'd get strange looks from everyone.

[@patrickforsyth9880]

When can we see a collaboration with you and jreg

[@JJMcCullough]

We already did three!

[@patrickforsyth9880]

Ok thanks I’ll look for them!😁

[@NeelLLumi-AnCatDubh]

@@JJMcCullough Three? I remember 2, plus the time he copied your intro

[@MrLucylp]

In Bavaria where I live, card-playing culture is still very alive, especially with the traditional style cards. Games like Schafkopfen and Watten are very popular. Maybe it is just because I live in a rather rural area but the card-playing culture is alive and well ad still gets a lot of interest from young people.

[@corymcgrath5652]

Can't get away from mom without a game of Cribbage. Can't get away from my sister without a game of Backgammon. Can't get away from my brother without a game of Darts. Edit: You forgot the UNO reverse card.

[@zacharyroussie4746]

I think among young people, in the US anyway, UNO is practically the central pop culture card game thing. You put a handful of high schoolers in a room, one of them is guaranteed to have an UNO deck on them.

[@Saxofony89]

JJ! Recent subscriber - loving the videos, backtracking at present. Question: how do you come by ideas for your videos? Some could be described as relative, but a video such as this one ... love from South Africa 🌈

[@JJMcCullough]

I’m not sure, sometimes things just seem interesting to me and then I think “this could be a good video.”

[@Saxofony89]

@@JJMcCullough Well, please do continue thinking on then, eager to see what your next video will bring! 💯💙

[@nicolasmendoza181]

In Bolivia (and other south american countries) we have a dice game called cacho, for playing you only need a leather cup, 4 dices, a pencil and a pice of paper, and you must try to get certain conbinations of dices to get points, the conbinations have waky names like tontos (dumbs) and balas (bullets) between others, its played mostly by people older than 40 in bars and restaurants but its still a big icon in bolivian popular culture