Here is another one, which was pretty common among my friends. It's kind of a variation on the odd/even game already described.
One person takes a number of cards (say, 10), and one-by-one, holding the card between the thumb and three other fingers (not the pinkie), flips each card to the ground in an underhand motion, letting go of the card roughly when your arm was pointing straight down. The idea was to get as many cards as you could facing in the same direction (heads or tails). After your 10 were flipped, the other person had to match what you did (so, for example, getting nine heads and one tail was good because it was hard to match). If the person matched you, they got your cards; if not, you got the cards flipped plus enough to cover the remainder of cards not thrown (in case the "non-matching" was already determined before all the cards were flipped).
Colors was the preferred game in a situation where you had to sit down and didn't want to attract attention (like in school) and this game was preferred when you could stand up and it wasn't an issue if anyone saw you playing.
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Last edited by molenick; 07-18-2021 at 10:17 PM.
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