More Card Game Fun — Faker, I Doubt It, Cheat, or Just Plain ‘ol BSt!

This game doesn’t take much skill per se, but it does take a keen sense of the truth, i.e., knowing when your fellow players are completely full of you know what. Kelly and I know this game by two names — “Faker” if you’re playing with your family or “BullS*$&” if you’re playing with your friends and need to be cool. If your teenager is routinely winning this one? Yes, be afraid. Be very afraid.

You might know Faker or BullS*$% from your precocious tween youth, but I always loved it. I had no memory of how to play it so I will connect you with a great site that does know and paraphrase. Okay this is really sad. I found the game on Suite 101, but apparently unless you’re a dork who went to Ruffing Montessori School in Cleveland Heights, Ohio then you would have called this game “I Doubt It!” or “Cheat!” if you’re British. Thankfully it is also known Webwide as “BullS*$%” so I’m not a total loser. Oh wait, it can also be a drinking game which I didn’t know, so yes, I am a total loser. Kelly thinks Faker actually was coined by our good friends from Findlay, Ohio while we were vacationing in the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

Here’s the game. 3 or more players. Deck of playing cards, no jokers, deal out the whole deck. If you get up to 10 people, you need another deck. The object of the game is to get rid of your cards. First person left of the dealer always starts because that’s how you deal. Grandpa B told me — with a twinkle in his eye when he taught me to play Poker — that in the ‘ol West you would have gotten shot if you dealt any other way. So, deal to the left, play continues clockwise. That person puts down all their Aces face down, next person their Twos face down, next their Threes face down and so on until someone gets rid of all their cards.

But you might not have any twos, threes or fours, etc. Even the first person in play might not have any Aces. SO, you fake it, bluff, bullS*%$!, cheat, lie, etc… So the real strategy of the game is to know when the other players are full of it. And then call them on it. Oh it’s a lot of good fun. If you do call someone out with a “Faker!” “I Doubt It!” or if you are with your friends, “BullS*%$!” If you’re wrong? You have the privilege of getting all of the discarded cards. If you’re right? Then that big bad bluffer gets them all. I’m thinking that if you add beer to this game that you have to chug one along with your new pile of cards.