Reply: The Bottle Imp:: General:: Re: Playing Bottle Imp with a standard deck

by Thunkd

emaise wrote:

But should you find yourself out with some card players and having only a standard deck at your disposal, why not introduce them to this wonderful game using just what's at hand?

I hate trying to proxy a game with a standard deck. It's just so ugly.

Wait... I just remembered we're talking about Bottle Imp. It can't be any uglier than any of the existing versions.

emaise wrote:

Remove all spades.
Add back in the A 2 3 and J Q K of spades.

Is there a reason you just don't say "Remove the 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 of spades"?

Taking out all the spades and then adding 6 back in seems a lot more complicated than just taking out 7 spades in the first place.