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Links, Trivia, Photos

Links, Trivia, Photos

Arranging a game

Most games are arranged using Facebook, via the ““Online Barbu”. group. 

Some Barbu players also use Yahoo Instant Messenger. (see www.yahoo.com)

Rules

John McLeod’s Card Games website:

http://www.pagat.com/reverse/barbu.html

Jeff Goldsmith’s pages

http://www.jeff-goldsmith.org/#games

Kurnik—Free Polish Online multiplayer game site (info available in English on the site)

http://www.kurnik.pl/en/

http://www.kurnik.pl/en/news.phtml

Misc links

http://www.bantha.org/~develin/cardgames.html#ch2

The Great Barbu Tournament

http://www.mathnews.uwaterloo.ca/Issues/mn7605/barbu.html

 

Web sites of Barbu Players

Neil Trentham

http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~trentham/

Chris Dixon

www.barbuonline.co.uk

 

Books containing information on Barbu

Card Games for Dummies

Barry Rigal
ISBN: 0-7645-5050-0
Paperback
384 pages
November 1997
US $16.99

Teach Yourself Card Games

Paperback: 288 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.75 x 8.00 x 5.25

Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books; 2nd edition (March 1, 2000)

ASIN: 0658000853 | All Editions

Amazon.com Sales Rank: 763,081

Trivia

Lowest winning score: Willie Whitaker, with +7.  In the same game, Martin Garvey was the only player in double figures, crashing to oblivion with –10.

 

Largest number of games played in one day (24 consecutive hours) by one player: 12. Dean Pokorny, on 23rd February 2013.  His average score was +88.8.

The previous record was held by Steve Altus

 

We now maintain a list of trivia on the facebook group—please refer to this link.

Click here to see photos of Barbu players