Interesting to see some rules I knew about on cards that I've never seen have them! I think the "lower card on 7" rule was one I brought back from St Andrews - it may have been you :)
And - what?! That's shocking. We had no rules against cards, because I like to think that I was a member of the very last part of the generation before the world turned flaming mental. However, poker was also a common room activity, first with a heap of assorted Kinder Egg prizes that had been collecting on the windowsill, and then we graduated to going down to the bank and getting £1 bags of copper coins to use those as our chips. Ingeniously the players always made sure to have the charity box on the table, so if an emergency arose and the teacher wandered in unexpectedly they could hide the cards and pretend they were just counting out its contents.
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And - what?! That's shocking. We had no rules against cards, because I like to think that I was a member of the very last part of the generation before the world turned flaming mental. However, poker was also a common room activity, first with a heap of assorted Kinder Egg prizes that had been collecting on the windowsill, and then we graduated to going down to the bank and getting £1 bags of copper coins to use those as our chips. Ingeniously the players always made sure to have the charity box on the table, so if an emergency arose and the teacher wandered in unexpectedly they could hide the cards and pretend they were just counting out its contents.