Card game
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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.
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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.
- 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
(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
Inductive games
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
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Card_game" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_game, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
