Playing "römi"

Hi Manolis,

thank you for looking and for the comment.

I have updated with a series of images from the film (if I have a whole film, and due to the low resolution there is place for more stills in 1024 pixels :) ).

To answer your question about the card game.

AFAIK "remi" is a card play, if I am not wrong, played in France. One needs two sets of cards for it.

Well, I moved the photo to the Hungary folder, now I will explain why.

In Hungary, somewhen in the past, playing cards was prohibited. So people invented a new game, with the rules of "remi", called int "roemi" (in Hungarian). It wasn't played with cards, but with rectangular pieces of wood, size about 2x3cm. On the wood pieces it was written a number (also for the queen king etc numbers corresponding), in four colours and 2 jokers. The wood rectangles were put during the play on wood boards with two storey, as seen in the film (empty): one row on the upper and one row on the lower. Two such boards made then, when the game was put to rest, the cover respectively the floor of the box in which the rectangles are kept, by using that step difference in thickness. 4 players are needed for the game, so 4 boards.

For this reason the game above is fake, as there are only 2 player. But it isn't playing, it is only preparing the pieces for the game: they are mixed on the table and then put one over the other and in arrays as shown. The film finishes where the game would start. I made the film at a time when I was on a game programming mailing list ...

Today the pieces of "roemi" games are made out of plastic, but the one in the film is out of wood (my grandmother's). We used to play with my grandmother's sister and her best friend at Balaton lake, in Hungary, during vacations when I was a child.

I put the old photo (slightly larger size) above.

kind regards

Maria

This is a series of still frames from an analogue video.

What do you think?

thanks

Maria

Super !

Regards Dan

Very good one.  Love it.  Best Regards,