Re: other card games to play with a group of 6
There's the obvious triple-draw, badugi, and (maybe) draw poker games.
For non-poker games if you have a deck with 2 jokers you can convert Spades to a 6-player game, give two non-spade suits an extra card (for ease of memory make it diamonds and clubs or hearts, and the joker is below the 2). Play with 2 teams of 3.
If you use two decks of cards Cancellation is a great variant of any trickbased game (like Hearts or Spades) - you lead the 3 of diamonds, I play the King, next guy plays Ace, and somebody else plays the other Ace of Diamonds - the aces cancel out and the King is currently winning. In the unlikely situation of a trick with no valid cards in it, the same player remains on lead and the winner of the next trick wins both. If the last trick of the game has no winner, preferably those cards just aren't counted. If you need all cards to count then have the person who led to that trick win it. If you need everybody to have the same number of cards for a game with two decks and no jokers remove two deuces or all 8 deuces.
Hope some of those suit you.
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