steel away

“It eases the gouty person, clears up the melancholy spirit, and refreshes the pensive lover.”

Chomps and I have gone through phases of enjoying various games: cribbage, backgammon, Risk…but lately I never felt like playing any of them. I have a fixation on cards. I’ve started playing Solitaire left and right. In class, at work, at home when I’m feeling stressed. Nothing like a good game of Solitaire to push aside those annoying thoughts of homework. So when Chomps and I wanted to play a game together, I wanted to play cards. I like the simplicity of it, I guess. And the portability. So we decided we should look up some 2-person card games, since I didn’t know any other than that one where you’re always slapping the cards. I prefer games of strategy, not reaction time. Enter…

PICQUET

(click that giant word to see a sweet old book)
It took Chomper a few hours (?) of research to get the rules straight, but we successfully played an entire game of 6 parties last night. I like it. I also like that I can picture things like this while we play:

That last image is from this cool site that has Medieval images of people playing all kinds of games. I’m excited to have something new and Frenchy to do while we wait for fireworks to start and eat ourselves sick on cherries and this new product I found.