The History of Flipping

[ValKehl]

Back in the late 1950's, my 3 card-collecting buddies and I would play most of the games Bob mentioned above in an effort to win each other's cards. My favorite game, probably because it was the game I was best at, was one we called "sail touch." It was very similar to the game Bob's game called "tops," except that we sailed the cards onto a large, open area of tiled basement floor. Once anyone's sailed card covered any part of another card already out on the floor, each remaining player had one chance to sail his card and cover any part of a card on the floor. If you missed, you were out of the game, and the successful remaining players continued in turn until someone covered part of a card and the remaining player(s) failed to do so. One advantage to this game was that our cards didn't get as damaged as they did from playing the other games.

However, once we kids learned how to play poker, this became our favorite way to win one another's cards!