Bluff

Bluff

Tourchy saw that my backpack was open, looked inside, opened a separate compartment, and found my deck of cards.

“Why did you not tell us you had cards?”  Innocent asked. 

We started playing a game they knew.  They dealt out 12 cards to each of us, then laid out six more cards and started making pairs out of matching ones.  When I asked about the rules (in several different ways) they just said, “Play!”  Innocent laid down a 4 on a 2, something else happened with jokers and aces, so I made up my own rules and declared myself the winner.  Innocent didn’t take it well, but Tourchy thought it was funny.

Somehow we decided that I should teach them an American game, so I taught them how to play my favorite card game, Bluff (B.S.).  It took a lot of explaining to start with the ace of spades, and they never really understood that we were going in an order (I lay down aces, you lay down 2’s, you lay down 3’s).  The hardest thing to teach in this game is usually that you have to lie when you don’t have whatever card you’re supposed to be laying down, but for them it was the order and laying cards face down.   And not looking at each other’s cards. 

Innocent also never really accepted that the goal of the game is to get rid of all your cards; he would gleefully call bluff on himself to get more cards.  After two rounds of each of their game and mine, we ended up just throwing down random cards into a pile.