Ever played Carlotta?
It's a card game. You need three people, and a deck of cards.
Actually you only need two people, but without the third there, it's rather pointless, like playing backgammon for toothpicks.
You fan the cards out on the table -- face up or face down, as you prefer -- and then assemble them into various piles. However you like.
Whoever finds the ace of spades (or whatever) rips it in two, laughing. Then you regather the cards, reshuffle them, and deal thirteen to the first person, sixteen to the second, and fourteen to the third, leaving the rest in a remainder pile.
The first player lays down all his red cards; the second player all his black; and the third keeps all his. Crying "Aha! A Zimmelhoop!" the second player claims the remainder pile, tucking it into his shirt pocket.
Etc., etc. Feel free to improvise.
Assuming that the first and second players can keep poker-faced throughout this charade, you can sometimes string the third "player" along for maybe half an hour or so, until he:
a) flees the room in terror, or;
b) tries to wager on the next "Zimmelhoop."
There's probably some profound psychological insight to be gained here, but all I can think of is that deferred laughter is sometimes so explosive that you could hurt your ribs.