Card game

A card game is any game using playing cards, either traditional or specialized. A participant in such a game is a card player.

Other games using cards include trading card games and combination games which use cards in addition to other playing equipment.

Table of contents

1 Trick-taking games 2 Matching games 3 Gambling games 4 Solitaire or Patience games 5 Shedding games 6 Accumulating games 7 Games with special decks 8 Cooperative games 9 Inductive games 10 Multi-genre games 11 Trading card games 12 External links

Trick-taking games

• 500
• 9-5-2
• All-Fours
• Ambition
• Bezique
• Black Lady
• Bridge
• Cinch
• Ecarte
• Euchre
• Forty-five (card game)
• Hearts (see also Black Lady to which it is related).
• Hokm
• Loo
• Napoleon
• Ninety-nine
• Oh Hell
• Pinochle
• Piquet
• Quinto
• Sergeant Major
• Sheepshead
• Skat
• Skitgubbe (phase 1)
• Solo
• Spades
• Tarocchi
• Tarock (played with a Tarot deck)
• Whist
• Wizard

Matching games

These are also referred to as the Rummy family.

• 500 Rum
• Canasta
• Concentration (game)
• Durak

• Gin (Gin Rummy)
• Go Fish
• Happy Families
• Kemps (Scenics)
• Robbers' rummy
• Skitgubbe (phase 2)
• Snap
• Spoons

Gambling games

• 3 card brag
• Baccarat
• Bingo (card game)
• Blackjack
• Blind Hookey
• Boure
• Cribbage
• Panguingue
• Poker
• Primero
• Red Dog
• Thirty-one

Solitaire or Patience games

• Armistice Day Patience
• Concentration/game
• Clock patience
• FreeCell
• Klondike
• Solitaire Showdown

(see a guide to solitaire terminology)

Shedding games

These are also referred to as the Stops family.

• Crazy Eights
• Eat Ch
• Fan Tan
• Macau
• Mao
• Michigan Rummy
• Nain Jaune
• Old Maid
• President
• Slapjack
• Shichi Narabe
• Shithead
• Spit
• Spite and Malice
• UNO

Accumulating games

• Beggar-My-Neighbour
• Casino
• Egyptian Rat Screw (ERS)
• War
• Seven Spades

Games with special decks

• Flinch
• Grass
• Hanafuda
• Karuta
• Magic The Gathering
• Mille Bournes
• Netrunner
• Nuclear War
• Pit
• Rook
• Set game
• Twitch
• UNO
• Wizard Wizard Card Game

Cooperative games

• Tri

Inductive games

• Eleusis

Multi-genre games

• Poke - a non-betting derivative of Poker with elements of trick-taking games
• Most solitaire games are multi-genre.

Trading card games

• Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game
• Magic: The Gathering
• Star Trek Customizable Card Game
• Star Wars Customizable Card Game
• Star Wars: The Trading Card Game

See also: Board game

External links

• http://www.pagat.com - information about many different card games.
• International Playing Card Society
• Rules for historic card games
• Dates for historic card games

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