Card game

The term card game refers to any game using playing cards, either traditional or specialized.

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

Trick-taking games:

• 500
• 9-5-2
• All-Fours
• Bezique
• Black Lady
• Bridge
• Cinch
• Ecarte
• Euchre
• Hearts (see also Black Lady to which it is related).
• Loo[?]
• Napoleon
• Ninety-nine
• Oh Hell
• Pinochle
• Piquet
• Quinto[?]
• Sergeant Major[?]
• Sheepshead
• Skat
• Spades[?]
• Tarocchi
• Tarock (played with a Tarot deck)
• Whist

Matching games[?]: (also referred to as the Rummy family)

• 500 Rum[?]
• Canasta
• Concentration (game)
• Gin (Gin Rummy)
• Go Fish
• Happy Families[?]
• Kemps (Scenics)
• Robbers' rummy
• Snap[?]
• Spoons

Gambling games:

• 3 card brag[?]
• Baccarat
• Blackjack
• Blind Hookey
• Boure
• Cribbage
• Panguingue[?]
• Poker
• Red Dog[?]

Solitaire or Patience games:

• Armistice Day Patience[?]
• Concentration/game
• Clock patience[?]
• FreeCell
• Klondike

(see a guide to solitaire terminology)

Shedding games: (also referred to as the Stops family)

• Bullshit (Cheat; I doubt it)
• Crazy Eights
• Eat Ch
• Fan Tan[?]
• Macau[?]
• Mao
• Michigan Rummy[?]
• Old Maid[?]
• President (Asshole; The Great Dalmuti)
• Slapjack[?]
• Shichi Narabe
• Shithead
• UNO

Accumulating games:

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

Special decks:

• Flinch
• Grass
• Hanafuda
• Karuta
• Magic The Gathering
• Mille Bournes
• Netrunner
• Pit
• Rook
• Set game
• Twitch
• UNO

Cooperative games:

• Tri

Inductive games:

• Eleusis[?]

Multi-Genre games:

• Poke - a non-betting derivative of Poker with elements of trick-taking games

Common Trading Card Games

• Magic: The Gathering

See also: Board game

External Links

• http://www.wizards.com/ - information about many trading card games[?] such as Magic: The Gathering.
• http://www.pagat.com - information about many different card games.
• International Playing Card Society (http://www.pagat.com/ipcs/)
• Rules for historic card games (http://jducoeur.org/game-hist/game-rules.html)
• Dates for historic card games (http://bits.bris.ac.uk/imran/games/cards.html)
• Funagain Games (http://www.funagain.com) - includes short profiles of many propriety games