Hearts is a great trick-taking card game where you don't want to win rounds where hearts are played, but you often do want to take tricks to control the flow of the game. But if you're real sneaky or have a good hand, you can take all the hearts and the queen of spades and screw everyone else. Wonderful game, little bit hard to pick up because there are 13 cards in a hand and the strategy has some depth, but it's so good.

Euchre is a more straight forward trick-taking game played in two teams of two partners who can't tell each other what to do or what they have. Its slim deck and hands make for a fast-paced game with some fun probability and strategic choices, never quite sure of what your partner has or what cards are out of the hand.

Cribbage is a classic game of building hands and scoring along a track. There's plenty of game in gambling on what hand you'll be able to build with what you decide to keep, but the real magic is in its idiosyncratic scoring and all the accompanying phrases and ceremony. A great game to chat over and pass the time, which has made it a staple of hunting camps.

You guys, I really miss playing cards.

Edit: wow, a lot of people like Hearts. Rad.