Are you a game player?

[keefer]

I've played Hearts since summer camp, and various card games and mah-jong, triple-play while caring for parents in Arizona...   I've just retired and would love to join some retired/gay card group in London - but have yet to find...   one of my early retirement goals is to learn bridge... 

[TonyDown]

I might also enjoy learning bridge.

My hometown had a fantastic newspaper with everything, including a daily column on playing bridge.  I didn't know the game but the column must have been adjacent to something I read so I noticed it. 

My mother belonged to 3 bridge clubs.  She used to deal bridge hands on the dining room table for practice.  

My sense is those days are gone, meeting in homes and playing bridge.  

[BigK]

2 hours ago, TonyDown said:

I might also enjoy learning bridge.

My hometown had a fantastic newspaper with everything, including a daily column on playing bridge.  I didn't know the game but the column must have been adjacent to something I read so I noticed it. 

My mother belonged to 3 bridge clubs.  She used to deal bridge hands on the dining room table for practice.  

My sense is those days are gone, meeting in homes and playing bridge.  

Well, those days may be greatly diminished, but I for one play bridge once a week with friends.  We usually play 4 to 5 hours at a stretch..

And I know it’s played a lot in many retirement homes.

I highly recommend learning to play bridge especially if you have a good friend who likes playing cards since it is a team game.

Some people are very serious about it and play for master points.  But I really enjoy a good Social game.

 

Edited February 10 by BigK

[mizuki777]

Bridge is a big commitment to learn, but worth it if you find the right crew. For a solo card fix, I just pull up Solitaire on my tablet. It’s straightforward, works well on mobile, and has some good variations if you get bored of the classic Klondike.

[+ Vegas_Millennial]

Since 2020, the most common board game I play is Pandemic.  I've played it about a dozen times this week alone with visiting house guests.  I have several expansion packs to the base game, to make it different each time. 

Another recent favorite board game is Wingspan.

[MassageCommunityMember]

I loved pandemic the game until 2020 

[wsc]

Cards Against Humanity! Sometimes so very darkly funny!

Used to play in some bars around town but almost all the other regulars have moved on. So, now I play Solitaire. I have no life.

[Luv2play]

Everyone played bridge in our family back in the 50’s to 90’s. In the 50’s my mother played in an afternoon bridge club with other non working, stay at home moms.
One day she received a telephone call from my father who had just learned his older brother had died unexpectedly at work. My mother had to drive over to her sister in laws bridge club to inform her that her husband had just died. Such was the drama of the 1950’s culture.

 

[+ azdr0710]

my maternal grandmother was in a bridge club for more than 50 years......she successfully kept that fact secret from her mother, who was a devout Methodist and forbid card playing......that same great-grandmother also would not use the word "beer" in polite conversation, so she'd offer people "root" when hosting visitors....

in college, another guy in the dorm and I would play gin a lot (freshman year).......he was a shy Navajo who evidently had a tribal scholarship of some kind.......it was his first time off the "rez" and he was always borrowing money from guys in the dorm and had a photographic memory of what he owed to whom.......at the end of freshman year, he didn't have the money to get back home and was found dead under a bridge in town.....

[CuriousByNature]

On 2/4/2026 at 7:51 PM, Lotus-eater said:

Meetup's search suggested that I might also like a lesbian group's Build a Vulva workshop 🫣

You get to construct a very safe Swedish vehicle?