Pam Wells learnt to play the card game euchre 36 years ago and she hasn't stopped turning up trumps.
"It's the cards you get and you can make it on nothing and get through and get your point or you can get euchred or whatever, and you rely on the cards and sometimes you rely on your partner," she said.
"It's a mixture of what you've got in your hand, what your partner's got and what the other people haven't got in their hand. It's a game of chance."
Taught euchre by her husband, Ms Wells played regularly at Colebrook, but as small towns gradually lost their card nights, she had to find somewhere else to play.
These days, Ms Wells is a regular at Thursday afternoon euchre in Claremont, in Hobart's northern suburbs.
She said she enjoyed the friendship as well as the cards.
"You have a good laugh," she said.
Fellow euchre player Graham Feckner agreed.
But Ms Wells is worried euchre is dying out.
"The younger generation don't know how to play it so it is going to be lost," she said.
Down the road at Goodwood Primary School, the card game Uno — which is played with a specially printed deck — is popular.
Amber Blackwell's cousin taught her how to play.
"It's very fun … I like playing with my friends," she said.
Classmate Rahni Webb said she also played other games at home with her brother.
"[We] play go fish, we play that a lot, and snap, because we have a few decks of cards at my house," she said.
And Prabhnoor Grewal said her dad had taught her some other card games.
Ms Wells said she hoped younger people would learn euchre.
Jennifer Lincoln, who plays with her at Claremont, said she picked up a euchre hand for the first time in 2016.
Aside from their love of cards, the euchre players and the Goodwood Primary students also enjoy the social connection that comes with the games they play.
"I like social interaction and it also is good for thinking, strategy, memory," Ms Lincoln said.
Mental Health Council of Tasmania chief executive Connie Digolis said getting together with others to play cards had many benefits.
"The first one would have to be social connection, the fact that people are coming together with a common interest," Ms Digolis said.
