My Grandmother & her sisters would play this game all the time at baby showers and at home —-it’s a parlor game from the 1920’s so has many different rules to play like bunch. Here are two very different ways. The German- American sisters whole lot of them that were so loud you could hear them screams and giggling for miles. Maybe because of their deafness they heard little of the merriment but everyone else heard loud and clear. You thought the house was on fire literally when they screamed. This is one of our traditional games.
The second is the Quaker way, my friends ancestors aunt taught her called it House of Fire, they played in silence.
Here are the rules to House of Fire
“So this is the paper we hang up when playing.
Tables of 4-
Person across from you is your partner.
Work to get one-1 one -2 etc… double 6’s you burn down. First team to get to the 6th 6 wins and shouts “house of fire”
We play opposite hand roll-
Quaker rule – where you burn down if you make a peep.
You start as Roll one-123456 done
Backwards- starting with 6-sixes..
-Make a head table and losers table and when you win at your table you advance up to the next table.
Double punch the cards for the people who got “house of fire” and one punch the cards for the couple ahead (closest to winning) at each table. The losers stay at the table while the ones ahead move up to next table, and change partners. (At winners table you keep the same partner)
We usually play to like 20 punches.”
