Solitary ramblings

[strange_complex]

It's funny how your behaviour changes with your environment. I have Spider Solitaire on my own computer at home, but never play it, thinking it dull and boring. When I'm at my parents' house, though (as now), I hardly seem capable of going to bed without first playing, and winning (playing alone will not do) a game of it. It is just part of my

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[ladyguinevere83]

Mine is most likely influenced by the games we played as a family on holiday. When we ewre younger, we did play sevens as a family, but that was put aside by 'Chase the Lady' (which has another name as well), in which the Queen of Spades is evil (but hearts aren't good either) and others where it doesn't matter (like Racing Demon). Actually, in chase the lady there was a set order of the value of the suits, but I don't remember what it was, except thatclubs and diamonds were in the bottom two.

Now I'm rambling!

[strange_complex]

Yes, there are a few games where the Queen of Spades is evil / undesirable, aren't there? It didn't stop me privileging spades in my personal ranking, though. I think I assumed that a) it proved she was special and powerful and b) that people just didn't 'get' her! When she's 'bad' in games, it seems to me like an attractive kind of badness - kind of like Dracula, or something.

[a_d_medievalist]

Is 'Chase the Lady' perhaps also 'Hearts', where one tries to avoid the Queen and all hearts, unless one can 'shoot the moon' buy taking all of them?

[ladyguinevere83]

Yes! That's the one - I knew I came across it later under another name. It was always Chase The Lady in our house :)

[feetnotes]

aka "black maria" *g*