Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Pitch


Image courtesy of Emily Murphy

In high school, my friends and I were addicted to Pitch -- a partner-based card game you play til the first team wins 21 points. We played it in school whenever we had a free period (and sometimes when we didn't...), after class, at parties, on long bus rides to sports games. It was a huge time suck -- and we loved it.

I'm a lucky person, and a few of my best friends from high school live in NYC. Last night we got together and resumed playing our favorite game from 10 years ago. And it was awesome. I am fully addicted once again.

A lot of people don't know how to play Pitch, and sometimes we think Hamilton is where it was conceived (along with Raider Ball -- a game you will only know how to play if you went to HCS and had Mr. Blackford as your gym teacher.) However, according to Wikipedia, the game started in London pubs. Believe what you want -- Wikipedia is written by a bunch of thugs.

NYC Tournament to be announced shortly. Get your game faces on.