We used to play this game when I was in the military and you really had to watch guys that played as a team REAL close. They'd send subtle signs on what to bid like rubbing a ring for (Diamonds) scratching or tapping their chest for (Hearts) small pat on head for (Clubs) or scratching their arm for (Spades). You really had to watch your opponents and call them out for it if you caught them. It was a game in itself just trying to get an edge.
Great video, we play a variation which is dealt a round of 2 cards,1 middle, round of 3, 1 middle, round of 2, 1 middle and finally round of 3. we also use one red 4 hearts and one black 4 clubs which change suits to the same color bid. the heart becomes a diamond or the club becomes a spade.
Ok, I've learnt it and played and I like it very much. 😃 Especially Australian variant (with many rounds of bidding). This is still not a serious card game like bridge, but it's the second best, "wise" game after bridge I've ever met.
Every player is dealt ten cards, so when each player plays one card, that is a trick. There are ten tricks. The team that won the bid, chose a suit and a number. The suit in the bid is the trump. The trump always wins the trick (the hand). Jack’s of the same colored suit as the trump (spades with clubs, diamonds with hearts) are considered trumps as well. The jokers just win against everything. The number in the bid is an estimation of the amount of tricks to win. The score of the game is based on this number estimate, along with the suit, and looking at a scorecard can be helpful. Hopefully this helped some of you out, as I kept asking my family what these terms meant and they could not explain, then I went to watch this video, and the video did not explain either. Needless to say I was very frustrated.
My dad and uncle (I'll call him fred) used to play this when they were young, their dad taught them. As they got older, they each had a best mate that would come over and they would play 4 or 6 handed (sometimes nan and pop played, nan was hopeless while pop was the best at it, so they still made a good team) As I was growing up, my dad and uncle fred taught my brother and I how to play, so everytime we all gathered, we'd play (because I would pester everyone haha) My dad's best friend (uncle sam I'll call him) never wanted to play, so for a long time, never got to see how good he was, one day, I was at Uncle sam's house with my dad and my other uncle (on my mum's side I'll him Uncle bob) and asked if everyone wanted to play 500.....Uncle Sam FINALLY SAID YES and I got to team with him, we mopped the floor against my dad and uncle bob. On Uncle Fred's death bed my parents and their best friends (Uncle Sam and his wife) and I visited him, my uncle Fred wanted to play one last game, so we did. When my parents were going through his things, dad found the joker hidden in a compartment of the card case. My dad said to me "Even in death he was still cheating" We had a laugh and told Uncle Sam who roared with laughter, he was upset about it quite a bit, so good to see him laugh. Uncle Fred was shifty when it came to games and pool/billiards. Dad and Uncle Fred told me a lot of stories about the old days haha, good memories. Even though he's passed, I'll always have the memory of him and dad teaching me how to play this great game.
Having never played, I have to say im as confused about this game as I was before. Stuck trying to understand what the trick and trump stuff even means, never got a good definition
I had trouble too starting out years ago. I found learning to play spades was great for learning the concept of trump. Then, I moved up to playing euchre. After euchre, I graduated to this game. Have you learned to play yet?
@@chocolategirl3r856 Thank you for your reply :) yes i believe the 500 i've been taught is rummy 500 aswell glad i'm not the only one who know that version as 500
Try to learn thought. 500 is actually one of the easiest card games and perhaps the most rewarding after bridge. I.e. there is the most strategy in there.
Exactly, playing low is a terrible stratergy when you hold both jacks, he should have lost to the queen and not dragged the joker, usually always play high first if you win the bid.
On the firsthand player "C' threw the Joker to win the hand when they actually could have won with Queen of Hearts. I may be forgetting something but why did player "C" throw that Joker?
Disagree with your first play, 6 of hearts. You should lead the Jack of hearts to force out the joker, which was not called. (If the jack of hearts was not trumped by the joker on the first play - you could assume that your partner had the joker). A very good tutorial for beginners Dah...............Just found another bad play. Player C could have won the first play with the Queen of hearts??????? and not use the joker.
Yeah, this is actually a great video overall but would have been perfect with a little more nuance in regards to what should be played once you know how to play.
You need an extended deck to play with six players-specifically, a 63-card deck with 11s and 12s of each suit in addition to the regular 52 cards and Joker. The Joker is optional in all variations; without the Joker, only two cards are dealt to the kitty. Players play in two teams of three, playing alternately with their opponents.
It is a very complex game to learn unless you are a Bridge player. Watch some other videos on 500 and learn more. The first thing to learn is the removal of the cards from the deck. Most card games, poker for instance, use a 52 card deck. 500 is played with a joker. 4 players get 10 cards each and the "widow/middle" requires 3 cards. That requires the removal of 10 cards from the deck. The ten cards to be removed are all four of the 2s and 3s and the two black 4s. That is how you create a 43 card deck. The way the cards are dealt is unimportant. People like to use the cards dealt to the "Widow" as a marker to help them keep track of where they are in the deal in case they are interrupted. Therefore everyone can see how many rounds have been dealt. My family has been enjoying this game for right at a century and we have never dealt it according to the card game bible known as Hoyle's Book of Card Games, but our deal is nearly the same. We deal each player a set of 3 cards then we put a card in the widow. Then every player is dealt 3 cards after which another card is added to the widow. A last round of 3 cards per player is dealt and a final card is put in the widow. There should be four cards left which are dealt out as a single card to each player. This last round of the deal will indicate to the dealer that the cards have been dealt properly because anything other than exactly four cards in the final deal means that there is a card on the floor that was left out or that someone received 11 instead of 10 cards. In the latter case the dealer asks everyone to count their cards. The dealer can either collect all the cards to deal them again or if no one objects the player who is short a card can pick a card at random from that player's hand. It's unimportant which way the error is handled.
Going to be teaching my parents this game tonight with this video. Thanks for this.
We used to play this game when I was in the military and you really had to watch guys that played as a team REAL close. They'd send subtle signs on what to bid like rubbing a ring for (Diamonds) scratching or tapping their chest for (Hearts) small pat on head for (Clubs) or scratching their arm for (Spades). You really had to watch your opponents and call them out for it if you caught them. It was a game in itself just trying to get an edge.
:D I hope no one was shot or buttered?
Great video, we play a variation which is dealt a round of 2 cards,1 middle, round of 3, 1 middle, round of 2, 1 middle and finally round of 3. we also use one red 4 hearts and one black 4 clubs which change suits to the same color bid. the heart becomes a diamond or the club becomes a spade.
dealing does not change the variance of the cards, if shuffled correctly they're randomised either way
simoo1 I realize that, we just use a different variation of the dealing pattern, we feel it’s more randomized,
same game play of course
Your channel has made evenings with my family very fun.
I played hundreds of games of this when I was in the navy, such a relaxing game to play with a few drinks
Ok, I've learnt it and played and I like it very much. 😃 Especially Australian variant (with many rounds of bidding). This is still not a serious card game like bridge, but it's the second best, "wise" game after bridge I've ever met.
Every player is dealt ten cards, so when each player plays one card, that is a trick. There are ten tricks.
The team that won the bid, chose a suit and a number. The suit in the bid is the trump. The trump always wins the trick (the hand). Jack’s of the same colored suit as the trump (spades with clubs, diamonds with hearts) are considered trumps as well. The jokers just win against everything. The number in the bid is an estimation of the amount of tricks to win. The score of the game is based on this number estimate, along with the suit, and looking at a scorecard can be helpful.
Hopefully this helped some of you out, as I kept asking my family what these terms meant and they could not explain, then I went to watch this video, and the video did not explain either. Needless to say I was very frustrated.
Excellent explanation :P
Thank you, A refresher, starting a new card class at U3A, Hopefully will not embarrass myself now!
Interesting game. Could you play this with two players? I suppose it could be played similarly to the two-player spades.
My favorite game ever. Love it.
Have you tried bridge?
Does it need to be in teams? It seems completely possible to just do every man for themself, maybe with lowering the gain for winning bid
Is there a website that you can play 500 bid with other people or against the computer?
@Joseph Kony Thanks Joseph!
I'm from oz we played this as a family a lot growing up in the 80s don't think its as popular now
Are there any tournaments of it in, say, Australia?
I love learning card games by you thanks
My dad and uncle (I'll call him fred) used to play this when they were young, their dad taught them. As they got older, they each had a best mate that would come over and they would play 4 or 6 handed (sometimes nan and pop played, nan was hopeless while pop was the best at it, so they still made a good team) As I was growing up, my dad and uncle fred taught my brother and I how to play, so everytime we all gathered, we'd play (because I would pester everyone haha) My dad's best friend (uncle sam I'll call him) never wanted to play, so for a long time, never got to see how good he was, one day, I was at Uncle sam's house with my dad and my other uncle (on my mum's side I'll him Uncle bob) and asked if everyone wanted to play 500.....Uncle Sam FINALLY SAID YES and I got to team with him, we mopped the floor against my dad and uncle bob.
On Uncle Fred's death bed my parents and their best friends (Uncle Sam and his wife) and I visited him, my uncle Fred wanted to play one last game, so we did. When my parents were going through his things, dad found the joker hidden in a compartment of the card case. My dad said to me "Even in death he was still cheating" We had a laugh and told Uncle Sam who roared with laughter, he was upset about it quite a bit, so good to see him laugh.
Uncle Fred was shifty when it came to games and pool/billiards. Dad and Uncle Fred told me a lot of stories about the old days haha, good memories. Even though he's passed, I'll always have the memory of him and dad teaching me how to play this great game.
I'm reading about this game and I'm wondering: why to play this game when there is bridge?
typically the way i deal is three cards to each player, 1 in the middle, 4 cards, 1 in the middle, then 3 cards
Hello in the first round player C didn’t need to play the joker…his Queen would have won the trick
I used to play this when I was a kid my parents taught me this game.
same
...Australian?
Me too.. such a fun game.
Having never played, I have to say im as confused about this game as I was before. Stuck trying to understand what the trick and trump stuff even means, never got a good definition
Check out the playlist “Trick Taking 101” to help understand more of the basics
@@GatherTogetherGames thank you sir!
I had trouble too starting out years ago. I found learning to play spades was great for learning the concept of trump. Then, I moved up to playing euchre. After euchre, I graduated to this game. Have you learned to play yet?
I think trump means if you don't win you throw over the table and call it fake news.
@@diggler2002 LMAO
It is very different from the 500 i was taught so i take that i must go under another name in the states
I also know a different in the Caribbean. It is actually rummy '500' I know as 500.
@@chocolategirl3r856 Thank you for your reply :) yes i believe the 500 i've been taught is rummy 500 aswell glad i'm not the only one who know that version as 500
Do we actually need 2 decks for a game of 4 people?
This is still to advanced for me. I do not have a ‘mind’ for card games and need a very very basic explanation
me too. let me know if you find a course with very basic instructions.
Try to learn thought. 500 is actually one of the easiest card games and perhaps the most rewarding after bridge. I.e. there is the most strategy in there.
Thanks for this! It really helped!
Thanks for the video!
*watches this video before traveling to Australia*
It's Australian thing? 😯🤔
Hadassah national card game of Australia. Also popular in New Zealand and Quebec.
@@giustinosuarez8711 sick. I'm Australian and I didn't know that.
I live in Australia, never played it here. Grew up in NZ though and played all the time
@@giustinosuarez8711 yeah ik from Quebec. Very popular game
This looks like a fun game.
Player C should have played the Q of hearts and not wasted the Joker.
Lol
Exactly, playing low is a terrible stratergy when you hold both jacks, he should have lost to the queen and not dragged the joker, usually always play high first if you win the bid.
@@Andrew-rg7vc it was more that he could win with the Q and didn't need to waste the Joker
@@BIGJED75 so we both totally agree with each other
@@Andrew-rg7vc Yes both were not right way to play that hand
Amazing video 🎉😂
On the firsthand player "C' threw the Joker to win the hand when they actually could have won with Queen of Hearts. I may be forgetting something but why did player "C" throw that Joker?
I don't think it would really matter anyway. Since you have a lot of lower cards in your hand.
Absolutely the heart queen should have been played. This video could have been better produced.
Still confused 😭
Nice to see Bicycle Playing Cards being used in this video. I hope they sponsor your channel! :)
6:20 aren't you supposed to follow suit? Or do you have a choice to trump?
It was the offset jack. It won because it was the same color as that suit. It was stated at the beginning
I used a special 55 card deck.
Disagree with your first play, 6 of hearts. You should lead the Jack of hearts to force out the joker, which was not called.
(If the jack of hearts was not trumped by the joker on the first play - you could assume that your partner had the joker).
A very good tutorial for beginners
Dah...............Just found another bad play. Player C could have won the first play with the Queen of hearts??????? and not use the joker.
Right. There were several cards led that I disagreed with!
Yeah, this is actually a great video overall but would have been perfect with a little more nuance in regards to what should be played once you know how to play.
I believe it was intentionally lead that way just to illustrate that the Joker was the highest trump in the round and therefore won the trick.
@@drgrockster ???????? a wasted trick.
@@pakoroutube it is a beginners guide
If you know how to play Euchre, you already know how to play 500.
Once you learn 500, you will never want to play Euchre again. I mean only 5 cards? Really Euchre? Shame on you.
it's way more similar to bridge than euchre
what about six player??
You need an extended deck to play with six players-specifically, a 63-card deck with 11s and 12s of each suit in addition to the regular 52 cards and Joker. The Joker is optional in all variations; without the Joker, only two cards are dealt to the kitty. Players play in two teams of three, playing alternately with their opponents.
there is also 2 and 3 handed i believe,
I purchased a 6 player expansion that has four 11s, four 12s and two 13s for 6 player games.
Play a game of 500 for practice
im really confused
a bit too fast to catch for a true beginner
What abour misere?
Also called nullo. Or open misere aka open nullo
Sounds exactly like Rick Steeves.
Hay
Too fast
Lost me too fast.... 🤦♀️
What type of fucked up game is this? Oh hell nah...
The very unnatural, staccato rhythm of the narrating instructor in this video makes it more than a little difficult to follow.
Worst game
Wanted to learn this game, but I’m 100% too stupid 🥲🫡
It is a very complex game to learn unless you are a Bridge player. Watch some other videos on 500 and learn more. The first thing to learn is the removal of the cards from the deck. Most card games, poker for instance, use a 52 card deck. 500 is played with a joker. 4 players get 10 cards each and the "widow/middle" requires 3 cards. That requires the removal of 10 cards from the deck. The ten cards to be removed are all four of the 2s and 3s and the two black 4s. That is how you create a 43 card deck. The way the cards are dealt is unimportant. People like to use the cards dealt to the "Widow" as a marker to help them keep track of where they are in the deal in case they are interrupted. Therefore everyone can see how many rounds have been dealt. My family has been enjoying this game for right at a century and we have never dealt it according to the card game bible known as Hoyle's Book of Card Games, but our deal is nearly the same. We deal each player a set of 3 cards then we put a card in the widow. Then every player is dealt 3 cards after which another card is added to the widow. A last round of 3 cards per player is dealt and a final card is put in the widow. There should be four cards left which are dealt out as a single card to each player. This last round of the deal will indicate to the dealer that the cards have been dealt properly because anything other than exactly four cards in the final deal means that there is a card on the floor that was left out or that someone received 11 instead of 10 cards. In the latter case the dealer asks everyone to count their cards. The dealer can either collect all the cards to deal them again or if no one objects the player who is short a card can pick a card at random from that player's hand. It's unimportant which way the error is handled.
Find some people who are playing and watch them -- it doesn't take long to catch on.
@@danielebrparish4271 Is there a point in playing it when there is bridge?