This is going to meander, so please bear with me.
My son loves the game "Fallout" on the X-Box...truth be told, so do I, but prefer the Elder Scrolls.
There's a card game in there called "Caravan", which is predicated on not being able to buy a full deck at the newsagent in a Post Apocolyptic wasteland, so the players and NPCs have a random assortment of odd cards that they accumulate along the way, and the card game is structured such that it's not a full deck on either side, and you play your deck against the NPC.
Son was frustrated at it, as the rules in the game are hard to follow, so I got a couple of cheap decks, and found out how it goes together...
http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/9745/what-are-the-rules-of-caravan
It's a really fun game, especially when your son who doesn't like UNO starts to assimilate being nasty in gamplay into his world....
So I recalled when I bought my house, there was some old stuff in the shed that I kept, and found a raggedy old tyre patch tin that he could fit his cards in.
Completely on theme, and made him happy.
Then I realised that I was given a tin of Castrol "40 years of GTX" playing cards back in the day, and they too came in a tin. So I cracked the tin, opened the cards, and now have my own set.
My son's is the actual spread/tin in the background.
I was just stoked that the Castrol cards had a story to tell, starting with Wakefield, so took a (poor) photo.
Anyway, if you've got kids or grandkids, and they are gamers, then learn Caravan.
Then find a skanky old tin to make it authentic.
(and as to the Castrol, cards, my recollection was that they were a gift from a dealer, and I didn't get them the night I had Dinner with Russel Ingall at Castrol's cost)
My son loves the game "Fallout" on the X-Box...truth be told, so do I, but prefer the Elder Scrolls.
There's a card game in there called "Caravan", which is predicated on not being able to buy a full deck at the newsagent in a Post Apocolyptic wasteland, so the players and NPCs have a random assortment of odd cards that they accumulate along the way, and the card game is structured such that it's not a full deck on either side, and you play your deck against the NPC.
Son was frustrated at it, as the rules in the game are hard to follow, so I got a couple of cheap decks, and found out how it goes together...
http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/9745/what-are-the-rules-of-caravan
It's a really fun game, especially when your son who doesn't like UNO starts to assimilate being nasty in gamplay into his world....
So I recalled when I bought my house, there was some old stuff in the shed that I kept, and found a raggedy old tyre patch tin that he could fit his cards in.
Completely on theme, and made him happy.
Then I realised that I was given a tin of Castrol "40 years of GTX" playing cards back in the day, and they too came in a tin. So I cracked the tin, opened the cards, and now have my own set.
My son's is the actual spread/tin in the background.
I was just stoked that the Castrol cards had a story to tell, starting with Wakefield, so took a (poor) photo.
Anyway, if you've got kids or grandkids, and they are gamers, then learn Caravan.
Then find a skanky old tin to make it authentic.
(and as to the Castrol, cards, my recollection was that they were a gift from a dealer, and I didn't get them the night I had Dinner with Russel Ingall at Castrol's cost)
