Blind Bluff
One card each, held to your forehead. You can see everyone's but your own, and you bet on what their faces are telling you. Also called Indian Poker.
Needs
A deck of cards
People
3–8
How long
15 min
Suits
A room that came to play
Drink
None needed
How to run it
One card each. Chips only, never money.
Ace is high.
The hand
- Everyone antes, then takes a card without looking at it.
- Hold it flat against your forehead, face out.
- Bet, call, raise or fold on what you can see round the table.
- Everyone still in turns their card over. Highest takes the pot.
Worth knowing
- Reading the others is the whole game. A table full of low cards makes a coward of a King.
- Nobody may hint, wince or look pleased. Everybody will.
- For a quick round, skip the betting — lowest card takes a forfeit.
What you need
- A deck of cards
- Counters — Chips, coins, matches, buttons — anything countable
Add this to your event
Fayla builds the whole weekend around it — a scoreboard everybody can see, a shopping list that writes itself out of the things you picked, and one link for the group chat.
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