My mom made this game and we love it! I know she didn’t dream it up, and I don’t have any idea who the author is. I do, however, know how easy it is to make, and I’ve made several sets for Christmas gifts this year.
If you’d like to make one, you’ll need 52 popsicle sticks, 6 decks of cards, the rules, and a box to put everything in.
I’m including a list of all the sticks, as well as the rules of the game. I laminated my rules, with a list of the sticks on the other side. You can do it however it works for you! And Costco has boxes of Bicycle playing cards- 12 packages to a box. Hopefully you can download this:
When I was young, a similar game to this was popular in our small community. Everyone would get together and the adults would play with multiple decks. Very similar, but no sticks. The best part was we got to play in large groups of kids at someone’s house.
It’s called something Rummy, shanghai, combination, contract, frustration, rummy.
