1. Tic Tac Toe
Each person has a deck of cards and they put 9 cards out in front of them. If they don’t have tic tac toe, they draw a card and can replace any one of the nine cards. Once someone gets tic tac toe, they collect the cards and replace them with cards from the deck. Whoever has the most matches at the end of the game wins.
2. Deal all the cards out to everyone playing. Once you put down all of the matches, the game starts. Each player passes one card to their right. Whoever runs out of cards first wins.
3. Guess Who
Each person has a deck of cards in front of them and has one card as their ‘person.’ Each player takes turns asking if the ‘person’ has a certain quality – i.e. if it is a spade. If it is a spade, the other person flips over all of the cards that aren’t a spade. Whoever can guess the other player’s ‘person’ first wins.
4. Run
Each person starts off my putting 5 cards down. They then take turns drawing a card and replacing one of the original 5. Whoever gets a run first – i.e. 2 3 4 5 6 – wins.
5. Card Train
Each person has 10-15 cards out of a shuffled deck. Up to 4 players take 15 cards, 5 or 6 take 12, and 7 or 8 take 10. There is a ‘hub slot’ for each player and a card that starts the personal trains. Draw a card and put it in the middle of the hub to start the individual trains. The person to the left of whoever drew the first card for the communal train goes first. This then goes in a clockwise direction. Each person can either add one card to the communal train or they can add to their personal train if the card matches the hub card. If a player doesn’t have a move, they can choose a face down card from the ‘boneyard.’ If they still don’t have a move, they have to take the last card off of their personal train and that train becomes communal. Anyone can add to your personal train until you can add to it, which makes it a personal train again. Whoever runs out of cards first wins. To add to a train, the cards either have to be the same color, suit, face, or number.
Tic Tac Toe as a card game seems interesting if its a bit frenetic in the same fashion as the game Set.