My family played this game all the time, but we called it "blitz," which is also what we called a hand of 31. We didn't follow the rule about counting three-of-a-kind as 30. If you had a hand with three fours, it was just a really lousy hand. This is a great game for kids to play with adults, as the rules are very simple and everyone has a chance to win.
My family loves playing this game! Though we play slightly different. 3 of a kind doesn't count as 30 (just a bad hand) unless you get it on the intial first 3 cards you're dealt, then it plays like a 31. We play with dollar bills and every time you lose 1 or 2 points you fold that many corners of the dollar, when you've lost 4 lives and all 4 corners are folded, you then throw your dollar into the center and this represents you being on your honor, which is your 5th and final life, which really gets you to focus and puts the heat on you to perform consistently, winner takes all the dollars. A good strategy that can help or hurt you is to knock very early on even though you have a decently low hand as you only have to beat 1 person and if you think someone might be lower this can burn people's lives quickly and make them mad 🤣 also if you want to really be gutsy and make people mad, do what my brother does and knock on your first turn without even looking at your hand to let fate decide 🤣 it's a great time and a blast to play, we have tournaments from time to time and it's great cause it can bring in low skill players so people feel like they can jump in as opposed to something like poker where the kids don't understand or it's just over some people's heads, it's just simple get 31 or the best you can all same suit!
As long as more than two people are playing, your brother doesn’t need to be gutsy to knock before he even looks at his cards, as the odds will always be at least 66.6% or more in his favor. Your brother understands the best strategy to win the game. That gives him a distinct advantage over most other players. It is such an advantage, that it seems unfair, almost like cheating. He may not win many hands, but I would wager that he wins more than his share of the games.
@@jimgsewell yeah lol he's a legend in our family 🤣 he doesn't do it much since it can get annoying but he always has to throw one or two in every game for fun
I lives in a small town, and basically everyone I knows loves playing this game. We plays a slightly different version, where 3 of a kinds are worth 30.5 instead of 30
What happens when a player hits 31 during the last round? (just after a knock) I'm assuming everyone but the 31 hand pays but it is reasonable to make the player who knocked pay double.
@@float32 The motivation of the additional rule, is to help place limits on people who play using the best strategy. Most people are happiest playing the game using a less than best strategy.
I used to play this on slow times delivering pizzas, with the other drivers. We would use a dollar or 4 quarters. With the dollars, just folded over a corner as your lost. When you had 3 corners folded over it was put in the middle as the pot. The 4th quarter was put in the pot with the third quarter as well. It was really fun winning your fellow friends/co-workers tip money.
We usually start pot at .50 and add 25 cents a round.. Everyone starts with 3 chips and loser loses a chip each round. Winner gets .25, 31 gets .50 and 3 aces gets .75.. last person with a chip gets the pot. Usually around $30 îf there's 5 players... Sometimes we play for $1 so everything gets adjusted accordingly
Either everyone reveals and the person with the highest score wins, or the discard pile gets turned over and shuffled to become the draw pile once again. The game usually doesn't last that long, though.
You're saying if a player loses 3 chips, they are still in the game until they lose another life. Does that mean that each player has to lose 4 lives before exiting the game, despite having 3 chips each?
How to win a tie score with 2cards each, and is it true if you have the ACE with a 9 adding up to 20, with JACK HIGH and some1 else has 10+J adding to 20 but has QUEEN HIGH. is it true even tho its equal score the one with the ACE WINS
90% of how you explained was correct. But the proper way at the end when you lose 3 coins you are actually on the Bus. When you are on the bus that means you lost three coins(lives) and you have your last hope. Thats the way I've been playing my whole life with my family. Other than that, everything is correct!
we play a little different..first we play for money..we have four $/coins. when you lose them you are on grace meaning you can continue to play as long as you are not low in a hand or knocked out with the rest of table with another player getting 31. it is not uncommon for someone on grace to run the table and win it all. Each card stand on it's own, example 4, 9 and a king of the same suite is 23, not 30 just because they are of the same suite.. In the example at the end both player 1 and 2 have 25, player 4 has 23 so player four only pays, the way we play, regardless of who knocks
Καμψειπαγγόνυ, my bad I just realized that the queen is a spade and I thought they were all the same because it’s kind of hard to tell if it’s a club or a spade because it’s not fully focused on it so it’s kinda blurry
It is not fair to give every player (except the knocker) one more chance to draw after the knock. Instead, you should simply complete the round. In this way all players will have an equal number of opportunities to draw by game end. Let me illustrate. If P1 draws first and also knocks later in the game, then P2, P3 and P4 should get one more chance to draw. But if P2 knocks (assuming P1 drew first), then P3 and P4 should get one more chance to draw, but not P1. Similarly, if P3 knocks (again assuming P1 drew first), then P4 should get one more chance to draw, but not P1 or P2. And finally, if P4 knocks (assuming, as before, that P1 drew first), then no player should get one more chance to draw. In other words, the end of the game always coincides with the end of a round except when a hand of 31 is revealed. In that case, the game ends immediately. This is the only truly fair way of playing 31. Otherwise, some players will get one more turn to draw than others.
Knowing when to knock is the whole point of the game. You have to be strategic and know when you have a good hand and start picking off your opponents early on in the game.
Everyone gets one last chance since they just found out the end is near. The player who knocks loses a turn to knock is that too unfair? It's the rules we live by and they make sense to me
31 is called "trentuno" not thirty one because it's italian. and you play it with neopolitan cards, not french cards. this is all wrong and re-adapted to a totally different game. shame.
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My family played this game all the time, but we called it "blitz," which is also what we called a hand of 31. We didn't follow the rule about counting three-of-a-kind as 30. If you had a hand with three fours, it was just a really lousy hand. This is a great game for kids to play with adults, as the rules are very simple and everyone has a chance to win.
Great Scat review! I was rusty. thanks
Fun fact: This game is popular in Germany, where it's called "Schwimmen," translated rather obviously to 'Swimming'
Dude, we used to play this up north (Wisconsin) at camp. We played for candy money. My uncle had a sweet tooth, so he always lost… 😂
Play with three $1 stacks. Whoever is low puts $1 into middle. Winner take all.
My family loves playing this game! Though we play slightly different. 3 of a kind doesn't count as 30 (just a bad hand) unless you get it on the intial first 3 cards you're dealt, then it plays like a 31. We play with dollar bills and every time you lose 1 or 2 points you fold that many corners of the dollar, when you've lost 4 lives and all 4 corners are folded, you then throw your dollar into the center and this represents you being on your honor, which is your 5th and final life, which really gets you to focus and puts the heat on you to perform consistently, winner takes all the dollars. A good strategy that can help or hurt you is to knock very early on even though you have a decently low hand as you only have to beat 1 person and if you think someone might be lower this can burn people's lives quickly and make them mad 🤣 also if you want to really be gutsy and make people mad, do what my brother does and knock on your first turn without even looking at your hand to let fate decide 🤣 it's a great time and a blast to play, we have tournaments from time to time and it's great cause it can bring in low skill players so people feel like they can jump in as opposed to something like poker where the kids don't understand or it's just over some people's heads, it's just simple get 31 or the best you can all same suit!
As long as more than two people are playing, your brother doesn’t need to be gutsy to knock before he even looks at his cards, as the odds will always be at least 66.6% or more in his favor. Your brother understands the best strategy to win the game. That gives him a distinct advantage over most other players. It is such an advantage, that it seems unfair, almost like cheating. He may not win many hands, but I would wager that he wins more than his share of the games.
@@jimgsewell yeah lol he's a legend in our family 🤣 he doesn't do it much since it can get annoying but he always has to throw one or two in every game for fun
I lives in a small town, and basically everyone I knows loves playing this game. We plays a slightly different version, where 3 of a kinds are worth 30.5 instead of 30
Same here.
What happens when a player hits 31 during the last round? (just after a knock) I'm assuming everyone but the 31 hand pays but it is reasonable to make the player who knocked pay double.
Any time a player gets 31, it's immediately declared and everyone else loses.
The way I've always played, if a 31 is obtained during a knock it doesn't matter. It basically just means you won't go out.
@@reillywalker195 unless someone has knocked. Then its the person who has the least amount of points
We used to call this Stop The Bus and one other rule we had was that you had to have more than 14 in value in your hand before you can knock.
What’s the motivation?
@@float32 The motivation of the additional rule, is to help place limits on people who play using the best strategy. Most people are happiest playing the game using a less than best strategy.
🙂love it
For anyone who's tried this game with actual money, how well do you say it does as a gambling game?
Played it yesterday for money and was pretty entertaining. Each of us put $10 in the pot last one standing takes it all
I only did it with my family and it was good
I used to play this on slow times delivering pizzas, with the other drivers. We would use a dollar or 4 quarters. With the dollars, just folded over a corner as your lost. When you had 3 corners folded over it was put in the middle as the pot. The 4th quarter was put in the pot with the third quarter as well. It was really fun winning your fellow friends/co-workers tip money.
We usually start pot at .50 and add 25 cents a round.. Everyone starts with 3 chips and loser loses a chip each round. Winner gets .25, 31 gets .50 and 3 aces gets .75.. last person with a chip gets the pot. Usually around $30 îf there's 5 players... Sometimes we play for $1 so everything gets adjusted accordingly
It’s not really a gambling game it’s more of like an after game for fun or for a couple of dollars
What happens if you knock and tie someone for highest hand? Or if you knock and someone has a higher hand but you don't have the lowest?
It doesn't matter who has the highest hand. The lowest hand at the end of a round loses a life.
What do you do if you run out of draw cards?
Either everyone reveals and the person with the highest score wins, or the discard pile gets turned over and shuffled to become the draw pile once again. The game usually doesn't last that long, though.
Can you pick up a card from the discard pile and put it back or do you have to keep it
I’ve always played that you can discard any card. If you watch this video he seems to play that way as well.
You're saying if a player loses 3 chips, they are still in the game until they lose another life. Does that mean that each player has to lose 4 lives before exiting the game, despite having 3 chips each?
Correct. My family and I play with quarters, not chips, so it gives you one last chance to win even if you're out of money
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What if there are more members? Can we play with 2 deck of cards ?
How to win a tie score with 2cards each, and is it true if you have the ACE with a 9 adding up to 20, with JACK HIGH and some1 else has 10+J adding to 20 but has QUEEN HIGH. is it true even tho its equal score the one with the ACE WINS
It doesn't matter who wins, only who has the lowest hand
We use one joker, is this wrong?
90% of how you explained was correct. But the proper way at the end when you lose 3 coins you are actually on the Bus. When you are on the bus that means you lost three coins(lives) and you have your last hope. Thats the way I've been playing my whole life with my family. Other than that, everything is correct!
We call it "On Your Honor."
we called that 'Riding the bumper' ...
we play a little different..first we play for money..we have four $/coins. when you lose them you are on grace meaning you can continue to play as long as you are not low in a hand or knocked out with the rest of table with another player getting 31. it is not uncommon for someone on grace to run the table and win it all. Each card stand on it's own, example 4, 9 and a king of the same suite is 23, not 30 just because they are of the same suite.. In the example at the end both player 1 and 2 have 25, player 4 has 23 so player four only pays, the way we play, regardless of who knocks
At 5:04 player 1 has 25 not 15 because all of the cards are the same suit
How do you figure? P1 has QS JC 5C. JC(10) + 5C(5) = 15 points. The uploader is correct.
Καμψειπαγγόνυ, my bad I just realized that the queen is a spade and I thought they were all the same because it’s kind of hard to tell if it’s a club or a spade because it’s not fully focused on it so it’s kinda blurry
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I understand. Now that I'm 65 yo, everything is more than a little blurry.
What’s with this 3 lives stuff? Is it new or what
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If we draw the last card, what happens?
My guess is that it’s automatically a knock?
Although I would assume someone would have knocked by then
@@DuhEthanTranShows ok thanks
I used to play this with my nan..she called it Cabby?
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When do all players shows their card
When play gets back around to the person who knocked. In the example hand, since player 2 knocked, all cards are shown after player 1's next turn
I play 31 like this
Aces are 1 unless their with two face cards of the same suit it’s 11
We added one rule - if a player that has lost and was out was accidentally dealt back in they were restored at the honor level and back in the game.
What happens if a player has 3 aces (33)
Then that's 10 not 33
No 3 of a kind is work 30
Any 3-of-a-kind is worth 30 (or 30.5, depending on how you play).
After one show player 1 lost his life then how to start next round
Gather and shuffle the cards, then deal them out and start again. The person to the left of the old dealer becomes the new dealer.
I thought this was Skat
It is not fair to give every player (except the knocker) one more chance to draw after the knock. Instead, you should simply complete the round. In this way all players will have an equal number of opportunities to draw by game end. Let me illustrate. If P1 draws first and also knocks later in the game, then P2, P3 and P4 should get one more chance to draw. But if P2 knocks (assuming P1 drew first), then P3 and P4 should get one more chance to draw, but not P1. Similarly, if P3 knocks (again assuming P1 drew first), then P4 should get one more chance to draw, but not P1 or P2. And finally, if P4 knocks (assuming, as before, that P1 drew first), then no player should get one more chance to draw. In other words, the end of the game always coincides with the end of a round except when a hand of 31 is revealed. In that case, the game ends immediately. This is the only truly fair way of playing 31. Otherwise, some players will get one more turn to draw than others.
But the whole reason knocking is there is because its a race or else it would go on forever
Knowing when to knock is the whole point of the game. You have to be strategic and know when you have a good hand and start picking off your opponents early on in the game.
@@dougtube9870 well said!
Everyone gets one last chance since they just found out the end is near. The player who knocks loses a turn to knock is that too unfair? It's the rules we live by and they make sense to me
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Lol this isn’t quite right dude
31 is called "trentuno" not thirty one because it's italian. and you play it with neopolitan cards, not french cards. this is all wrong and re-adapted to a totally different game. shame.
Well i googled it and i was wrong this is actually the original version
just like stop the bus how ever with me give like