Their struggles with alcoholism led to me becoming an alcoholic, which nearly killed me multiple times, and did end up killing my mom before she was 60.
Fortunately I got sober a year before she passed. I'd have almost certainly drank myself to death had I not.
No, card games. You never played Hearts or Spades?
Usually 4 players, two teams of two. People take turns playing a card and the highest one takes the trick/book. Team with the most books, or closest to their bid without going over, wins.