card-games

This afternoon we went to Angeles's niece's apartment.  We visited there for about an hour.  Then we came back and ate rice with meatballs, and played cards afterwards.  We played some Frederico, and also a new game called "Media Cochina."  The game works like this:

• Everyone is dealt 2 cards (standard card deck), and tries to get a pair.
• There are beans in the middle of the table.  One less than the number of people that are playing.  Everyone also has three beans of their own.
• One person counts to three, upon which everyone slides one of their cards to the right and picks up the one from the person on their left.
• If someone now has a pair, they yell "Media Cochina!" and grab a bean from the middle.  Everone else also then tries to grab a bean.  If no one has a pair, count to three again and swap cards until someone has a pair.
• The person without a bean becomes the media cochina.  No one can talk to them.  Anyone that speaks to them becomes the new media cochina.  They can use any sort of tricks to get people to speak to them.  They also must get rid of one of their three beans.
• For the next round, each person gets three cards, and someone needs three of the same number in order to grab the first bean.
• The next round is four cards.  Possible winning hands include 4 of a kind, 2 pair, or a straight of four.
• The next rounds are with five, six, and seven cards.  All cards must be used by the first person to grab a bean.  They can be used by an sort of hand from poker.  For example, a straight of seven, 2 pair and a 3 of a kind, a 7 card flush, and a full house plus a pair could be used for seven-card hands.  The seventh round goes back to using 2 cards.
• The game is over when there is only one person with beans remaining.
• Jokers are always wild, as are the cards of the same number as the number of cards in each person's hand (2's for the first round, 3's for the second round, etc.)

Two of Aline's friends came over later, and we played cards until 1:30am.