Puttin' on the (Nancy) Ritz: Daily Booster Packs for Five Card Nancy

November 29, 2015 12:05 AM

Before people were doing things to Garfield, they were cutting up Nancy strips and playing Five Card Nancy (previously). Recntly, playing it the old-fashioned way (and not wi-- wow, is this still up? I remember when it was this big) has become a lot easier - earilier this year, classic Bushmiller Nancy strips began rerunning on GoComics. And if those are booster packs, Random Acts of Nancy (previously) is the one-per-pack uncommon/rare card. And, of course, there is the greatest of them all.
posted by BiggerJ (12 comments total)

That single panel is sublime.
posted by Sphinx at 12:51 AM on November 29, 2015 [3 favorites]

OK, this is totally cheating. Not this one though.
posted by zompist at 1:09 AM on November 29, 2015 [2 favorites]

Practice makes perfect.

This is one of my favorite things ever, and I wish there was an organized way (and the interest, I guess) to play this with friends or MeFites. Somewhere on a HD or a cloud somewhere are all my favorites that I've made or seen over the years.
posted by Room 641-A at 7:47 AM on November 29, 2015 [1 favorite]

Cartoonist Wally Wood described Nancy's design more succinctly: “By the time you decided not to read it, you already had.”
posted by migurski at 9:39 AM on November 29, 2015 [4 favorites]

I can't stop playing 5 Card Nancy solitaire.
posted by maurice at 3:00 PM on November 29, 2015 [1 favorite]

I wish the solitaire gave you a whole new hand of five after every choice.
posted by rifflesby at 3:20 PM on November 29, 2015 [1 favorite]

Painstakingly reconstructed: Alfred Hitcock's Nancy
posted by anazgnos at 3:35 PM on November 29, 2015 [7 favorites]

If United Features were smart, they'd totally sell Five Card Nancy games. They could totally do the trading-card version with boosters and all that stuff. And it's not like they'd ever run out of Nancy panels.
posted by Rev. Syung Myung Me at 4:52 PM on November 29, 2015

I'd buy that.
posted by Room 641-A at 5:36 PM on November 29, 2015

I wonder how this would work with Cathy.
posted by sourwookie at 7:15 PM on November 29, 2015

| ACK! | | ACK! | | ACK! | | NO |
posted by Room 641-A at 5:29 AM on November 30, 2015

If you get five different ugly swimsuits that counts as a flush.
posted by Strange Interlude at 8:25 AM on November 30, 2015 [1 favorite]