Cards in the hat, or Card flip, is a game

Game

A game is structured playing, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool. Games are distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration, and from art, which is more often an expression of aesthetic or ideological elements...

 in which the players throw playing card

Playing card

A playing card is a piece of specially prepared heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin plastic, marked with distinguishing motifs and used as one of a set for playing card games...

s into a hat or other receptacle. The game requires concentration and some skill.

Setup

Two or more, equally-sized, teams are created. A hat (preferably a Trilby

Trilby

A trilby hat is a type of fedora. The trilby is viewed as the rich man's favored hat; it is commonly called the "brown trilby" in England and is much seen at the horse races. It is described as a "crumpled" fedora...

) is placed on the floor, and a mark is determined from where each team member will play, known as the "oche". Each team puts forward one team member at a time, and each team plays alternatively, with the youngest in each team playing first.

Game

The first player steps up to the "oche

Oche

The oche , also the throw line or toe line, in the game of darts is the line behind which the throwing player must stand. It is generally from the face of the dartboard, measured horizontally. This is the recognized world standard as set by the World Darts Federation and is used in most areas...

" with 8 cards and attempts to throw, one at a time, a card into the hat. Each card landing in the hat gains one point for the team the team member belongs to. After all of the players have taken their turns, then the first player returns to the oche again with 8 cards. This time the players throw two at a time into the hat, and each player follows to do the same, again with the points for each player being accumulated. After the pairs of cards all team members try to throw 4 cards at a time, and finally all 8 cards are thrown into the hat in one go.

External links

• All Top Games Free Online Cards in the Hat
• Lady Luck: the theory of probability on Google Books.