Comments on: Review: Playing Card Holders by Jobar

By: Mama (Stacy)

Mama (Stacy) — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:01:36 +0000

Save your money and use a chip clip. It works – even when you are playing Uno.

By: sandy

sandy — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:54:54 +0000

My mother-in-law uses this to play cards (she had a stroke and lost use of her right side). We often play cards when we get together (family trips or dinner) and it would be very difficult for her to play without this. She keeps one at her house and the other in her car (in the console) :)

By: KB 111

KB 111 — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:36:00 +0000

AJ — that’s funny that you mention Mille Bornes. I’ve ONLY ever played Mille Bornes in French. It wasn’t until just a few years ago that I had even seen the game in English. Glad I’ve got the old sets — with decades of assorted styles of tape holding the worn edges of the box together. :)

By: Molly T

Molly T — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:04:27 +0000

I’ve used this product and it works great. I worked in a classroom with children with special needs, and this worked great even for high school aged students who don’t have the dexterity to hold a large hand of cards, often while playing UNO.

By: AJ

AJ — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:50:57 +0000

Yeah, I let my childhood copy of Uno go a few years ago and never heard the end of it from my wife. After a couple years of scouring garage sales, I finally found a good copy with the words on the cards last month.

I figure Hasbro changed the deck because they’re idiots or wanted to appeal to non-English speakers. Funny thing is, my daughter is learning Spanish at her immersion school and I really wish I had a second Uno deck with Spanish words. Dumbing down a game is never good, and in this case, makes the game harder to learn for first-timers.

If you want to get nostalgic about card games, talk to a Mille Bornes fan. I own three versions of the game, including one in the original French (known from playing at a friend’s house as a kid).

By: My Boaz's Ruth

My Boaz's Ruth — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:29:32 +0000

I am so jealous. You have old-style UNO cards. if I’d realized they had changed the cards, I’d have kept the Star Trek ones I had in WAshington :( The new cards are a LOT harder to use.

By: molly

molly — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:06:19 +0000

My siblings and I always used to use a big hard cover book (Dr. Seuss always worked well) standing open with the cards behind laid out face up so we could see what was what. This gizmo probably would work better but we never seemed to mind our little technique either.

By: Adventures in MamaLand

Adventures in MamaLand — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:24:59 +0000

OMG, this is a must! I was hoping to start playing Fish and other basic card games with my 4.5-year-old, and this is the EXACT thing we need.
Thank you, thank you, Sam I am!

By: PAUL

PAUL — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:50:12 +0000

I always put my cards on the ground and got off my chair every time it was my turn – of course I asked my parents and sister not to look. I wonder why I never made it as a pro poker player?

By: Teresa

Teresa — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:47:17 +0000

We always grabbed a board game box, turned it upside down, and stuck our cards in between the bottom of the box and the lid. Voila!