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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)
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)
I was wondering if it would be acceptable for me to list my ways of cheating at this game.
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))
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!!!!
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)
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)
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)
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)
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 have made an incredibly large revision to every aspect of this entire article. I put in many specific notes that were lacking in the previous, such as whose turn it is after particular events in the game, and bundled all the variations together instead of leaving them adrift in the sections. I also opened up more sections, creating a whole Strategies section out of one idea that was in another section, and made it a very strong point (since, well, I consider it a major unique aspect of Egyptian Ratscrew) that eliminated players can resurrect themselves in-game, by focusing attention on it as its own section. Among numerous other tidbits. I removed some redundant language that was present in the old Variations section, but in the act of checking for redundancy would prefer to second-guess myself by stating that I may possibly have removed one or two things that should have remained in there. If anyone would like to review my work, please feel free! -- Keron Cyst ( talk) 21:14, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
Students at College of Southern Maryland made an alternative to the game, where an aditional ruling is two seperate styles of game, ERS - like normal and SRE -where you want to get rid of all your cards. The game starts based on the color of the first card played, Red is SRE, black is ERS. During gameplay a marriage double (queen and king) switches the game to SRE from ERS or vise-versa, after the cards have been taken.
SRE
The object of the Game SRE is to get rid of all your cards the game ends when a player gets rid of all their cards.
This is exactly like ERS except some changes: The Last player to slap the pile takes the pile (instead of the first) When a player fails to put down a face card, they take the pile (instead of the previous player) On a miss-slap, every player gives the miss-slapper a card from the top of their deck(instead of the miss-slapper discarding) On a marriage slap, the last player to slap it, gets the pile and then the game switches to ERS and starts on their turn. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.62.49.254 ( talk) 18:59, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
I learned this game, by the name "Ancient Egyptian Rat Killer," in the summer of 1988 as a member of the Fox River Valley Lutheran Youth Band, based in Appleton, Wisconsin, but including members from several parts of Wisconsin, including the mentioned place of origin, Eau Claire. There was an older individual in the group, however, from New London, Wisconsin who claimed to have invented the game (or so I recall). In short, this game dates back to at least the mid 1980s, and in my experience "Egyptian Ratscrew" (and other even more vulgar names that I won't mention here) were later truncations of the original name (made by the young punks, of course). The only rules difference from those stated was that there were no slaps on "sandwiches," only doubles. Pmartens ( talk) 03:26, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
I could have sworn it was made up by a group of American AFS exchange students on their way to Denmark in summer of 1988 (interesting that it is the same time-frame as Pmartens). In particular, a guy I think from the Chicago area (also same general region of the U.S.) who couldn't quite remember some similar card game, put together the rules of slapping on doubles, laying down cards against face cards (not aces), and a false slap being punished by dolling out your next 4 cards. The name Egyptian Rat-Screw seemed to be made up on the spot, just to sound exotic and vicious. No jewellery on your slapping hand was added after a game or two because one girl with a lot of rings caused several bloody knuckles. Slapping in didn't occur to us until someone new wanted join mid-game. Several of us continued playing it obsessively over our year in Denmark, teaching it to Danish friends, and eventually bringing it back to old friends in the states afterward. Mycobiont ( talk) 05:16, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
Pmartens, this story is suspect. Beggar-My-Neighbor is from the mid-19th century. Slapjack was played during World War II and probably earlier. Did it cross your mind your band camp buddy from your teens was puffing his originality to fit in with his new church group? Your comments on the name origin bely a certain POV that considers a game (that was created in at least the 1970s) must have some puritanical developer. WP isn’t the place to warp or speculate too freely upon history. Jgalt87 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 15:25, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
What happened to the photo? -- Alex.rosenheim ( talk) 16:28, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
Anyone adding new variations, particularly slap conditions to the article would be advised to look at http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Egyptian_Ratscrew&oldid=229261259 - at that point, the article contained a huge amount of folk knowledge including an UNO ruleset for the game, many variations and playstyles.
Somebody removed it via WP:BOLD; I don't know if there is a more suitable place for it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.194.164.25 ( talk) 19:25, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
Through the several times I've played this game, no matter what name people call it (Egyptian Rat Trap, Egyptian Rat Slap, Egyptian Slap Trap, etc.) I've played by several various ways you can slap.
71.205.142.20 ( talk) 21:31, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
As i learned it, triplets (which can only ever happen if a pair goes unslapped) are considered an instant win when slapped, except for 666, which is a loss for everybody, and mandates burning the entire pack of cards (pyromania). 2603:3006:1081:1C00:D2:E980:6DB1:F0F8 ( talk) 18:02, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
I have sought to begin addressing the lack of citations flagged up by the header tag by removing the plethora of unsourced names attributed to this game and citing those that remain. I would therefore ask the unnamed editor who keeps removing this properly cited material and replacing it with unsourced text at this article to refrain or it may be construed as WP:DISRUPTIVE EDITING. If you can improve the article by adding text based on reliable sources, go ahead. However, if the number of reliably cited names grows, it may be better to create a short section to list the less common ones. Thank you. Bermicourt ( talk) 09:31, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
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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)
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)
I was wondering if it would be acceptable for me to list my ways of cheating at this game.
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))
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!!!!
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)
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)
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)
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)
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 have made an incredibly large revision to every aspect of this entire article. I put in many specific notes that were lacking in the previous, such as whose turn it is after particular events in the game, and bundled all the variations together instead of leaving them adrift in the sections. I also opened up more sections, creating a whole Strategies section out of one idea that was in another section, and made it a very strong point (since, well, I consider it a major unique aspect of Egyptian Ratscrew) that eliminated players can resurrect themselves in-game, by focusing attention on it as its own section. Among numerous other tidbits. I removed some redundant language that was present in the old Variations section, but in the act of checking for redundancy would prefer to second-guess myself by stating that I may possibly have removed one or two things that should have remained in there. If anyone would like to review my work, please feel free! -- Keron Cyst ( talk) 21:14, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
Students at College of Southern Maryland made an alternative to the game, where an aditional ruling is two seperate styles of game, ERS - like normal and SRE -where you want to get rid of all your cards. The game starts based on the color of the first card played, Red is SRE, black is ERS. During gameplay a marriage double (queen and king) switches the game to SRE from ERS or vise-versa, after the cards have been taken.
SRE
The object of the Game SRE is to get rid of all your cards the game ends when a player gets rid of all their cards.
This is exactly like ERS except some changes: The Last player to slap the pile takes the pile (instead of the first) When a player fails to put down a face card, they take the pile (instead of the previous player) On a miss-slap, every player gives the miss-slapper a card from the top of their deck(instead of the miss-slapper discarding) On a marriage slap, the last player to slap it, gets the pile and then the game switches to ERS and starts on their turn. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.62.49.254 ( talk) 18:59, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
I learned this game, by the name "Ancient Egyptian Rat Killer," in the summer of 1988 as a member of the Fox River Valley Lutheran Youth Band, based in Appleton, Wisconsin, but including members from several parts of Wisconsin, including the mentioned place of origin, Eau Claire. There was an older individual in the group, however, from New London, Wisconsin who claimed to have invented the game (or so I recall). In short, this game dates back to at least the mid 1980s, and in my experience "Egyptian Ratscrew" (and other even more vulgar names that I won't mention here) were later truncations of the original name (made by the young punks, of course). The only rules difference from those stated was that there were no slaps on "sandwiches," only doubles. Pmartens ( talk) 03:26, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
I could have sworn it was made up by a group of American AFS exchange students on their way to Denmark in summer of 1988 (interesting that it is the same time-frame as Pmartens). In particular, a guy I think from the Chicago area (also same general region of the U.S.) who couldn't quite remember some similar card game, put together the rules of slapping on doubles, laying down cards against face cards (not aces), and a false slap being punished by dolling out your next 4 cards. The name Egyptian Rat-Screw seemed to be made up on the spot, just to sound exotic and vicious. No jewellery on your slapping hand was added after a game or two because one girl with a lot of rings caused several bloody knuckles. Slapping in didn't occur to us until someone new wanted join mid-game. Several of us continued playing it obsessively over our year in Denmark, teaching it to Danish friends, and eventually bringing it back to old friends in the states afterward. Mycobiont ( talk) 05:16, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
Pmartens, this story is suspect. Beggar-My-Neighbor is from the mid-19th century. Slapjack was played during World War II and probably earlier. Did it cross your mind your band camp buddy from your teens was puffing his originality to fit in with his new church group? Your comments on the name origin bely a certain POV that considers a game (that was created in at least the 1970s) must have some puritanical developer. WP isn’t the place to warp or speculate too freely upon history. Jgalt87 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 15:25, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
What happened to the photo? -- Alex.rosenheim ( talk) 16:28, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
Anyone adding new variations, particularly slap conditions to the article would be advised to look at http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Egyptian_Ratscrew&oldid=229261259 - at that point, the article contained a huge amount of folk knowledge including an UNO ruleset for the game, many variations and playstyles.
Somebody removed it via WP:BOLD; I don't know if there is a more suitable place for it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.194.164.25 ( talk) 19:25, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
Through the several times I've played this game, no matter what name people call it (Egyptian Rat Trap, Egyptian Rat Slap, Egyptian Slap Trap, etc.) I've played by several various ways you can slap.
71.205.142.20 ( talk) 21:31, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
As i learned it, triplets (which can only ever happen if a pair goes unslapped) are considered an instant win when slapped, except for 666, which is a loss for everybody, and mandates burning the entire pack of cards (pyromania). 2603:3006:1081:1C00:D2:E980:6DB1:F0F8 ( talk) 18:02, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
I have sought to begin addressing the lack of citations flagged up by the header tag by removing the plethora of unsourced names attributed to this game and citing those that remain. I would therefore ask the unnamed editor who keeps removing this properly cited material and replacing it with unsourced text at this article to refrain or it may be construed as WP:DISRUPTIVE EDITING. If you can improve the article by adding text based on reliable sources, go ahead. However, if the number of reliably cited names grows, it may be better to create a short section to list the less common ones. Thank you. Bermicourt ( talk) 09:31, 30 January 2021 (UTC)