Talk:Egyptian Ratscrew

This game is known as slaps where I'm from. Any others know of this name? Monarch75 16:47, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

I've written an article named 'Slapjack', but I can't get the link at the beginning of this article to work. I first tried clearing my browser cache, but it didn't help; Slapjack's 'What links here' page doesn't link to this article, so that pretty clearly indicates that the problem's not on my end. When I tried going to the edit page for this article and looking at a preview without changing anything, I got a working link, so I tried saving, but that didn't help either. Any ideas? -- Djinn112 03:31, Feb 10, 2004 (UTC)

I see the same problem. There's nothing wrong with your markup. This looks like a bug in the wiki software. Zack 03:46, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)

'Egyptian Ratscrew' has since appeared on Slapjack's 'What links here', but the rest of the problem seems to not be going away. I made a redirect to Slapjack at SlapJack and changed the link here to that; it doesn't look very nice, but it's at least functional now. -- Djinn112 04:04, Feb 10, 2004 (UTC)

Page titles are supposed to be case insensitive -- you shouldn't even be able to create SlapJack if Slapjack exists. This is worrisome. Zack 04:06, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)

It's been a few months, but I just noticed this thread again and wanted to give it closure: the problem has since gone away, and the link has been changed to 'Slapjack'. -- Djinn112 00:39, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)

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Egyptian Ratscrew is particularly well known amongst young Unitarian Universalists? WTF? Can someone corroborate this? [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 00:20, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Well, I can't exactly compare its proportional popularity between young UU's and the general population, but I suppose that's true. It seems a little gratuitous, and there's certainly overlap between "schoolchildren" and "YRUU," but whatever. It's probably true, and if there actually has been some role played by Jews in popularizing the game, that's kind of cool.

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I was wondering if it would be acceptable for me to list my ways of cheating at this game.

altenate

I learned a different vertion of this game. Where all there was were the normal j-1 Q-2 K-3 A-4 and dobbles and sandwitches (ex: 4-7-4) But in the vertion i learned the 10 nulled out every thing. Should there be seperate vertions for the different vertions (70.244.114.211 21:52, 22 April 2006 (UTC))

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This game is known as "Crack" in southwest PA. Should I list this on the article page? Denik1313 06:05, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

YES!!!!

Indian War

I know this game under the name Indian War, played in North London.

Also, after an Ace, you have 4 chances to play a Four; King–3 chances for a Three; Queen–2 chances for a Two; Jack–1 chance for a Ten. Of course, all picture cards can be cancelled by another picture. —anskas 17:13, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Extinction

I've played a variation of this game called 'Extinction' in Northern California. It uses incredibly complex rules. I'll post what I remember of them. VoidTalker 16:59, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Too many names?

Is it just me, or has the list of names gotten ridiculously out of hand? I doubt more than a handful of these are used outside of a small group of people or geographic area. I suggest that the article should just list the few most common names, and mention that additional variants and more obscure names exist. Anyone want to hazard a guess at what the 5 most common names are? MOXFYRE (contrib) 03:55, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

I've never heard of any names except Egyptian Ratscrew/Rat Screw, Jews on the run... Hoogli 23:17, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Likewise! I gather some of them are used in Australia, the U.K., and other English-speaking countries... but I get the feeling that some kid just sat around and made up half of these. I can't believe they're all in common use. MOXFYRE (contrib) 02:10, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

I have tried to remove some of the names that seemed dubious. I have also removed some names I was unable to find reference for, but kept some unreferenced names that I've heard in usage or seemed likely as euphemisms/alternate names. (Except for the name 'cats'; I didn't know how to search for that name without coming up with a lot of domestic cat related material.) Osho-Jabbe 04:14, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Looks a lot better now, I think. Thanks! MOXFYRE (contrib) 21:57, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

I have again gone through but this time with the criteria that if a name was a phonetic corruption of the original name, or it used a different country name and didn't come up much on a search engine, or it would be hard to disprove it was a name (it is a common word, or the title of a movie etc.) and didn't come up much on a search engine, or had an animal other than a rat and didn't come up much with a search engine, or seemed to have a completely unrelated name (possibly with profanities) and it didn't show up on a search engine; it was dropped from the list. This hopefully gives the list only common alt. names, euphemisms, and dysphemisms. --Osho-Jabbe 05:33, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

ERS in France

Does anybody know how to link pages with matching international pages of a different name? I recently discovered that this same game is played in France, under the name Bataille Corse (located here http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataille_corse). The variation that they play in Normandy, France uses doubles, sandwiches, and two cards in a row that add up to ten.

Sadly enough, the kid beat me... and I consider myself pretty good at the game. Not being used to the ten rule didn't help, of course... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.61.23.251 (talk) 22:02, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Random chance: Very high?

I object to the infobox's claim that there is a very high role of random chance in the game. In my experience, the player who can slap the fastest and most accurately wins the game, regardless of what cards he was dealt. Does anyone disagree? --66.41.81.111 (talk) 05:01, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

I agree that in my experience the winner is the one who spots slaps the fastest, however that constitutes original research, and so, unless you can find a reliable source that backs the assertion up, you cannot insert that opinion in.Osho-jabbe (talk) 20:48, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Wait a second, where did the opinion from the infobox come from? I don't think I've ever seen a beginner come even close to beating someone experienced so I don't see how the chance can be *very* high —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.176.55.38 (talk) 20:06, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

I added a "citation needed" thing to it for now. However, I tend to agree that the faster, more experienced player win far more often than not. --71.109.165.161 (talk) 04:56, 18 June 2009 (UTC)