Card games oyu play in your country.

[onodera]

I was wondering what card games children and teenagers played in other countries. I know three popular Western card games: poker, blackjack and bridge. Bridge is ludicrously complex, poker is meaningless if you don't wager any money, and blackjack is too fast-paced and random to be enjoyable.
What kind of card games would parents teach to their children and play together, say, on holiday? In Russia that would be durak ("the fool"). The rules are available on Wikipedia. It's simple enough to learn and play in the summer heat.
Or am I being a clueless communist, and children in your country simply play poker using their lunch money?
I'm interested in replies from all the countries, not just the US&A.

[KrazyHorse]

children in your country simply play poker using their lunch money?

Not entirely inaccurate.

[DaShi]

I used to play poker with my family as a kid. We had those fake casino chips and gambled with them. We'd also play Rummy, the loser had to make a convoluted justification as to why they lost.

[KrazyHorse]

Children are unlikely to play blackjack or bridge. They play very, very bad poker.

In reality, children tend to play card games like:

Crazy Eights
Go Fish
Snap
Hearts
Bull****
@sshole
War

[Wernazuma III]

We play Schnapsen (aka Sixty-Six). 4 player-Schnapsen is more demanding.

Escoba us also a nice game.

[Wernazuma III]

Oh, and from the "designer games", I'd recommend the following board games: "Take 5", "Lost Cities", "Wizard", and "Guillotine", if you like decapitating aristocratic frogs as much as I do.

[KrazyHorse]

More regionally, Cribbage and Euchre are pretty standard games in Canada.

[DaShi]

Children are unlikely to play blackjack or bridge. They play very, very bad poker.

In reality, children tend to play card games like:

Crazy Eights
Go Fish
Snap
Hearts
Bull****
@sshole
War

I didn't play @sshole until college, and then it was just a cruel drinking game. I miss those days.

[OzzyKP]

Spoons

[KrazyHorse]

I didn't play @sshole until college, and then it was just a cruel drinking game. I miss those days.

Played @sshole starting at ~10, went all through high school.

Went to a Jesuit high school with a large Italian contingent, so we also played Briscola.

[rah]

Euchre is very common across the midwest in the us also.

Bridge
hearts
spades
pinoccle sp?
crazy eights (until UNO came along)
Poker

[Sirotnikov]

Texas hold'em poker is extremely popular right now.

A popular game is Yaniv which seems to be an Israeli adaptation of some south american card game.

Taki which is similar to crazy eights.

Different variations of war.

Also russian games called Durak, and a rarity of my friends played Preferans which is sorta similar to bridge and whist.

[Kontiki]

Big Two was very popular when I was in undergrad at UBC, due to the large Asian student contingent. Awesome game.

[Krill]

Dopplecopf...but then again I hang out with the German postgrads alot...

@sshole, yeah, played that alot, aame as Rummy. Texas hold'em, college game that alot of people play.

[DanS]

Euchre is popular in the Midwest. Some people also like to play Hearts. Nuts is a good one.

Here on the East Coast, I'm not sure what people play. Haven't played anything other than poker here.