Donna Dorsa
Close-Up: Active Cribbage gaming clubs across Canada. Do you consider yourself to be an amazing Cribbage player? Are you and your partner so in-sync that you always seem to win your home games against friends and family? Are you ready to spread your wings and compete against other players in your community and beyond? If … Read more
What is the best Cribbage hand, and just how rare is it? Everyone knows the best poker hand is the Royal Flush, the best blackjack hand a natural two-card 21 (A+10), and the best thing ever to come from SquareSoft labs was Final Fantasy X. [Okay, that last part might be a matter of (highly … Read more
How DIY lovers can build your own Cribbage Board. Do you absolutely love the game of Cribbage? Did you break or misplace your board, and need a new one fast? Maybe you just want a simple woodworking project to tweak your building skills. Whatever the reason, building a cribbage board couldn’t be easier. The first … Read more
If you think winning Cribbage is hard, try purposely losing! Cribbage is a fantastic game. Here in Canada, we almost always play Doubles Cribbage, with partnerships between four players. It not only makes the games more entertaining, it adds an additional element of linked strategy that creates a more interesting gaming atmosphere for the players. … Read more
Euchre 3D: Top rated Euchre mobile app for Android and iOS. There are at least 3 dozen ranked Euchre card game apps on Google Play, and even more in the Apple iTunes Store. Some have been downloaded by over a million users, gaining popularity ratings of anywhere from 0 to 4.8 stars. The one we’ll … Read more
Variable Euchre rules from around the globe. Euchre is one of the most popular games in the world; not just here in Canada. As such, there are groups who play the game by many different rule variations. We’ll go over some of the more common varieties here today. Note that this text assumes you already … Read more
Review of Hearts+ Game for iOS, the highest rated Hearts mobile app on the Apple iStore. Hearts is one of the world oldest and most popular card games. Here in Canada, it continues to occupy the tables of friends/family game nights all across the country. And as so many of today’s trivial pleasures have, it’s … Read more
Review of Hearts + App for Android mobile devices. A quick search of the Google Play App Store reveals more than 50 ways to play Hearts on Android smartphones and tablets. Of those with 1k+ installs, they range in popularity from 2.8 to 4.6 stars. Most are free; some are not. With so many to … Read more
How to play Sergeant Major by its original, UK-preferred 8-5-3 card game rules and others. If you already know how to play the immensely popular Canadian card game of 9-5-2 (aka Canadian Sergeant Major), you should have no trouble picking up on its variant 8-5-3 rules. There are only a couple of differences between the … Read more
Review of Favorite Games’ Sergeant Major 8-5-3 app for Android smartphones and tablets. One of the most popular Canadian card games of all time is 9-5-2, a variation of England’s 8-5-3 trick-catching game. Its formal name, Sergeant Major, comes from its proclivity among the British Royal Navy more than half a century ago. Today we’re … Read more