Go Fish - 2 Quartett Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

wmshaysix: Although the cache container was still in place and found as recently as 3/14/18. I removed the container. I am archiving it because of construction by the Waterside Point Development blocking the approach to it

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Hidden : 1/18/2012
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

The container is a threaded oval container. Please rehide the cache replacing log container as found. BYOP

This cache is based on the card game Go Fish. It is often just known as Fish. This card game, like many others, is believed to have originated in the Middle Ages. Go Fish is best for 3-6 players, but it is possible for 2 to play. A standard 52 card deck is used. The dealer deals 5 cards to each player (7 each for 2 players). The remaining cards are placed face down to form a stock.
As soon as a player collects a book of 4 cards of the same rank, this must be shown and discarded face down. The game continues until either someone has no cards left in their hand or the stock runs out. The winner is the player who then has the most book

Go Fish - 2 Quartett

Go Fish - 2 Quartett This is the German equivalent of Happy Families or Authors. Many different designs of cards were made for this game in the late nineteenth and throughout the twentieth century, with various educational or other themes. Quartett is the German version of the game: it has the same rules, though the deck has 36 cards. Therefore, groups (or families) are nine, each of which featuring four different picture cards. Both in Germany and in Austria, several important manufacturers such as Piatnik, Berliner Spielkarten, F.X. Schmidt, and others have produced Quartett decks, with a great variety of subjects: animals, cities of the world, cars, etc.

Regretfully, having card games turned less popular than two or three decades ago, the wide range of Quartett decks inspired by different themes, once available, has now considerably shrunk.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

ebbg bs gur ceboyrz!

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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