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From: "Dave Dumas" <>
Subject: Re: Games - Hell...Firehouse version
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 16:02:04 -0800


Hi All,
Looking over the different rules of Hell brought back to my mind introducing
it at the first fire station I worked at back in the early '70's. This was a
big firestation (about 18 men), and the game spread like wildfire (???).
Usually the game would be only played by two players but there was also a
four player version. The two player version was just like our way of
playing. The four player version was team play where one person on each team
handled the hellpile and the other members would do the chucka-chucka poonk
thing. The games were lazer fast and actually became known in the station as
"chucka-chucka poonk" (as in: Do you wanta' play...) although "HELL" was
still the exclamation at the end of the hand.
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Dumas <>
To: <>
Date: Monday, February 08, 1999 8:16 AM
Subject: Re: Games - Hell...The South African Connection

>Boy, Mig, you must have a guardian angel of bookstore finds - it was
>great reading a description so much like our experience. But "one card
>per hand"...! Wimps!
>
>Tone
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