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O Shlemiel

Game ID: GID0230566
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"Card games with Yiddish".

This game comes with a double deck of standard cards with several extras: In the lower left, a letter A-Z; upper right, a number 1-52; and in the center, a Yiddish word or phrase, with its English translation. There are also 2 jokers with no letter or number but including Yiddish phrases. The decks are designed to play any normal card games, but also the word games, math games, and combination games described in the 24-page rules booklet, which also has a brief history of Yiddish.

Adult games:
- O Shlemiel
- Fablonjet Fortune Telling
- One-Time Anything Goes
- Two-Time Anything Goes
- Tsuris, or Panic
- A Glick Auf Deir
- Reverso or Meshuggeneh Bridge
- Chai 3-way Solitaire
- No-Trump by the Numbers
- Meshuggeneh Velt or 690
- Baleboss
- Shnorrer or Spell & Meld
- 200
- 300 & 400
- 1000 -- Add & Multiply

Children's Games:
- Shlimazzel
- Funny Fortunes
- Funny Stories
- 54
- High Card Wins
- Low Card Wins
- Zero Endings
- Pairs, or Mach Shnell
- Sequence or Multiples
- Easy Spelling Word Game
- Three-Letter Minimum
- Pairs, Trios and Words
- Zeroes and Words
- Spell-Along or Stop
- W-O-E Solitaire

Year Published
1975
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