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| x Whist |
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52 | Clockwise | Anglo-American |
Whist is a classic trick-taking card game which was played widely in the 18th and 19th centuries. It developed from the older game Ruff and Honours. Although the rules are extremely simple, there is enormous scope for scientific play; since the only...
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| x Vint | 52 | Clockwise | Anglo-American |
Vint is a Russian card-game, similar to both bridge and whist and it is sometimes referred to as Russian whist. Vint means a screw in Russian, and the name is given to the game because the four players, each in turn, propose, bid and overbid each...
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| x Pinochle |
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48 | Clockwise | Anglo-American |
Pinochle (sometimes pinocle, or penuchle), is a trick-taking game typically for two, three or four players and played with a 48 card deck. Derived from the card game bezique, players score points by trick-taking and also by forming combinations of...
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| x Mille | 104 | Clockwise | Anglo-American |
Mille is a two-player card game requiring two standard 52-card decks. Mille is a rummy game similar to canasta in the respects that if a player picks up cards from the discard pile, the player picks up the entire pile, and the only legal melds are...
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| x Paskahousu | 52 | Clockwise | Anglo-American |
Paskahousu (shitty pants) is a Finnish card game similar to Shithead. The object of the game is to play higher cards than the previously played cards, first to get replacement cards from the stock pile, and, after the stock pile has exhausted, to...
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| x Skitgubbe | 52 | Clockwise | Anglo-American |
Skitgubbe is a multi-genre card game that originated in Sweden. The game occurs in two phases. The first phase is a trick-taking game, where players accumulate a hand. The second phase is a rummy game, where players attempt to discard the...
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| x Minnesota whist | 52 | Clockwise | Anglo-American |
Minnesota whist is a simplified version of whist in which there are no trumps, and the goal of the game is to take 7 of the 13 tricks. Four-handed whist is played with two teams. The players of each team sit opposite each other at the table. One...
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| x Auction bridge | 52 | Clockwise | Anglo-American |
The card game auction bridge was developed from straight bridge in 1904 and was a precursor to contract bridge (Frey, Morehead, and Mott-Smith 1956).
The main difference between auction bridge and contract bridge is that in auction bridge a game is...
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| x Tuppi | 52 | Clockwise | Anglo-American |
Tuppi is a variant of Minnesota whist played in the Northern Finland. The major difference between Tuppi and Minnesota Whist is the scoring. In Tuppi, only one team can have points at a time, and consequently the points required to win a game must...
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| x Shithead | 52 | Clockwise | Anglo-American |
Shit head is a card game in which the aim is to lose all of one's cards.
The game, and variations of it, are popular in many countries, particularly amongst teenage and twentysomething travellers. The basic structure of the game generally remains...
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| x Pitch |
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52 | Clockwise | Anglo-American |
Pitch (also known as Setback) is a card game played with a standard 52-card deck. It is a popular variation of All fours (also known as High-Low Jack) which may be played by three to seven players. Pitch involves bidding and trick-taking, and may...
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| x Gin rummy | 52 | Clockwise | Anglo-American |
Gin rummy (or Gin for short) is a simple and popular two-player card game created by Elwood T. Baker and his son, C. Graham Baker, in 1909. Gin, which evolved from 18th-century Whiskey Poker (according to John Scarne), was created with the intention...
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| x Scopa |
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40 | Counter-clockwise | Italian |
Scopa is an Italian card game played with a standard Italian 40-card deck. It is most commonly played between two players or two teams of two players each, but can also be played with 3, 4, or 6 individual players. Scopa is a trick-taking game. The...
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| x Skat |
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32 | Clockwise | German |
Skat is (along with Doppelkopf) the most popular card game in Germany and Silesia. It is also played in areas of America with large German populations, such as Wisconsin and Texas.
It is a three- or four-player trick-taking game using a 32-card deck...
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| x Marjapussi | 36 | Clockwise | Anglo-American |
Marjapussi (Bag of Berries) is a traditional Finnish trick taking game. The speciality of Marjapussi is that the trump suit is determined in the middle of the play by declaring a marriage (a king and a queen of a same suit). To win a game, a...
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| x 500 Rum | 52 | Clockwise | Anglo-American |
500 Rum, also called Pinochle Rummy, Michigan Rummy, or 500 Rummy, is a popular variant of rummy. The game of Canasta and several other games developed from this popular form of rummy. The distinctive feature of 500 Rum is that each player scores...
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| x Contract bridge |
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52 | Clockwise | Anglo-American |
Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game of skill and chance (the relative proportions depending on the variant played). It is played by four players who form two partnerships; the partners sit opposite each other...
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| x Sixty Six | 24 | Clockwise |
Sixty Six is a four-player (two teams of two) trick-taking card game. This game uses a card ordering where the 10 is stronger than the King. The deck is made of 24 cards, 9, 10, jack, queen, king, and ace. A deck can be made with the cards 8 and...
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| x Écarté |
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32 | Clockwise | Anglo-American |
Écarté is a two-player card game originating from France, the word literally meaning "discarded". It is a trick-taking game, similar to Whist, but with a special and eponymous discarding phase. It is closely related to Euchre, a card game played...
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| x Bullshit | 52 | Clockwise | Anglo-American |
Bullshit is a shedding-type card game. The object is for the player to discard all the cards from their hand. This is done by placing one or more cards, ostensibly of a stated value, on the discard pile, while others are allowed to challenge the...
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| x All-Fours |
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52 | Clockwise | Anglo-American |
All-Fours (All-Fools) is a card game known in America as Old Sledge, or Seven Up. It is usually played by two players, although there is a 4 player variant, with the full pack of fifty-two cards, which rank in play as at Whist, the ace being the...
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| x Canasta |
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108 | Clockwise | Anglo-American |
Canasta (Spanish for "basket"; pronounced /kəˈnæstə/ in English) is a card game originating in Uruguay, where players attempt to make melds of 7 cards of the same rank, and "go out" by playing all cards in their hand and discarding. It is commonly...
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| x Panguingue | 320 | Clockwise | Anglo-American |
Panguingue (also known as Pan) is a gambling card game similar to rummy. It used to be particularly popular in Las Vegas and other casinos in the American southwest. Its popularity has been waning, and now is only found in a handful of casinos in...
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| x Piquet |
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Piquet is a trick-taking card game for two players. Pronounced "pee-kay" in France, it is usually pronounced "picket" in English speaking countries.
Piquet is one of the oldest card games still being played. It originated over 500 years ago, with a...
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| x Bezique | 64 |
Bezique (in French, bézique) is a melding and trick-taking card game for two players.
It was developed in France in the seventeenth century from the game piquet and gained its greatest popularity in Britain in the mid-nineteenth century. Perhaps the...
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| x Musta Maija |
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52 | Clockwise | Anglo-American |
Musta Maija is a Finnish card game. It is primarily a children's game, but due to tactical possibilities, it can be enjoyed by adults as well.
The game suits to 3-5 players, and it uses the standard deck of 52 cards. Ace is the highest. Everyone is...
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| x Solo whist | 52 | Clockwise | Anglo-American |
Solo Whist, sometimes known as simply Solo, is a trick-taking card game based on Whist. A major distinctive feature is that one player often plays against the other three. However players form temporary alliances with two players playing against the...
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| x Bowling Solitaire |
Bowling Solitaire is a card game by Sid Sackson described in his book A Gamut of Games. It simulates ten-pin bowling.
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| x Primo visto |
Primo visto (also spelled Primavista, Primiuiste, Primofistula) was a 16th-century card game. Very little is known about this game.
Based upon references in period literature it appears to be closely related to the game Primero with some later...
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| x Cicera |
Cicera is a card game which originates from Brescia, Italy. It is played with a pack of 52 cards and requires four players, which play in fixed doubles.
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| x Tichu |
Tichu is a multi-genre card game; primarily a shedding game that includes elements of Bridge and Poker played between two teams of two players each. Teams work to accumulate points; the first team to reach a predetermined score (usually 1,000 points...
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| x Windmill |
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Windmill is a solitaire card game played with two decks of playing cards. It is so called because the initial layout resembles a windmill's sails.
First, an ace is placed at the center. Then eight cards are placed around in such a way that the...
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| x Kaiser |
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Kaiser or three-spot is a card game popular in the prairie provinces in Canada, especially Saskatchewan and parts of its neighbouring provinces. There is mystery surrounding the origins of this game and there seems to be no historical record (spoken...
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| x Tri |
Tri is a two- or three-player cooperative card game in which players attempt to achieve at least 65 net points in one suit. The suit is not verbally declared; players select a suit by using plays, discards, and pick-ups as signals.
Played in a...
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| x Spades |
Spades is a partnership trick-taking card game, in which the object is for each pair or partnership to take at least the number of tricks they bid on before play began. Spades is a descendant of the Whist family of card games, which also includes...
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| x Hearts |
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Hearts is an "evasion-type" trick-taking playing card game for four players, although variations can accommodate 3-6 players. The game is also known as Black Lady, Chase the Lady, Crubs, Black Maria, and Black Bitch, though any of these may refer to...
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| x President (card game) |
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Asshole (also less commonly known as President, Presidents & Assholes, Shlub, Scum(bag), Capitalism,Pimps & Hoes and other names), an Americanized version of Dai Hin Min, is a card game for three or more in which players race to get rid of all of...
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| x Pedro |
'Pedro Mendez Gonzalez is a card game is very similar to 63, a variant played in Atlantic Canada, with origins from Scandinavia.
In Pedro, the following point values are assigned to the following cards of the trump suit:
Thus there are fourteen...
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| x Seven Devils |
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Seven Devils is arguably the most difficult of all solitaire games. It is a two-pack game widely available as a computer version.
28 cards are dealt out to seven diminishing columns with the bottom card of each column face up, and a further seven...
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| x Klaverjas |
Klaverjas or Klaverjassen is the Dutch name for a four player trick-taking card game using the piquet deck of playing cards. It is closely related to the Hungarian/Romanian card game klaberjass (also known as Kalabriasz, Clobiosh, and other similar...
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| x Karnöffel |
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Karnöffel is a card game which probably came from the upper-German language area in Europe in the first quarter of the 15th century. It first appeared "listed in a municipal ordinance of Nördlingen, Bavaria, in 1426 among the games that could be...
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| x Patriarchs |
Patriarchs is a solitaire card game which is played with two decks of playing cards. It is similar in reserve layout to Odd and Even but with different game play.
First, one king and one ace are removed from the deck and placed in two columns: one...
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| x Royal Marriage |
Royal Marriage is a solitaire card game using a deck of 52 playing cards.
The game is so called because the player seems to remove anything that comes between the Queen and the King of the same suit for them to "marry." Although the King and the...
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| x Bid Euchre |
Bid Euchre is a version of the popular card game Euchre in which the trump suit is decided by which player can bid to take the most tricks. Bid Euchre is very similar to Euchre, the primary differences being the number of cards dealt, absence of any...
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| x Spanish 21 |
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Spanish 21 is a variant of blackjack owned by Masque Publishing Inc., a gaming publishing company based in Colorado. Unlicensed, but equivalent, versions may be called Spanish Blackjack. In Australia and Malaysia, an unlicensed version of the game,...
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| x Bashi Fen |
Bāshí Fēn (八十分; Eighty Points), Tuō Lā Jī (拖拉機; Tractor), Zhǎo Péngyǒu (找朋友; Looking for Friends), Dǎ Bǎi Fēn (打百分; Fighting for a Hundred Points), Sìshí Fēn (四十分; Forty Points), Shēng Jí (升級; Advance in Level), and Shuāi Èr (摔二; Throw Two) are all...
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| x Robbers' rummy |
Robbers' rummy is a card game for two or more players which became popular in Germany in the early 20th century. Being derived from normal rummy, it emphasises arrangement of cards based on (generally simplified, but thereby no less challenging)...
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| x Grandfather's Clock |
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Grandfather's Clock is a solitaire game using a deck of 52 playing cards. Its foundation is akin to Clock Solitaire; but while winning the latter depends on the luck of the draw, this game has a strategic side.
Before the game begins, the following...
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| x Shanghai rum |
Shanghai rum is a card game, based on gin rummy, that 3 to 8 players can play. It is also known as shanghai rummy, contract rummy, or California rummy.
Shanghai rum is played with multiple decks of 54 standard playing cards, including the Joker ...
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| x Minor suit |
In contract bridge the minor suits are diamonds (♦) and clubs (♣). They are given that name because contracts made in those suits score less (20 per contracted trick) than contracts made in the major suits (30 per contracted trick), and they rank...
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| x Craits |
Craits (sometimes spelled Crates or Creights) is a card game played by anywhere between two and five players. It was invented in the 1970s in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is derived from Crazy Eights; in fact, the name Craits is derived from Crazy...
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| x Pilotta |
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Pilotta (in Greek Πιλόττα) is a 32 card, trick-taking game broadly similar to Contract Bridge, played primarily in Cyprus and closely related to the French game Belote. It is very popular among the Cypriot population, especially the youngsters, who...
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| x Bouillotte |
Bouillotte, a French game of cards, very popular during the Revolution, and again for some years from 1830. Five, four or three persons may play; a piquet pack is used, from which, in case five play, the sevens, when four the knaves, and when three...
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| x Golf |
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Golf is not one, but two different card games where players try to earn the lowest number of points (as in golf, the sport) over the course of nine deals (or "holes" to further use golfing teminology). The first is a form of solitaire with a tableau...
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| x Five-Handed Euchre |
Five-handed Euchre is a variation of the popular trick-taking game Euchre which adds an additional player and features a dynamic partner system. In five-handed Euchre, each player competes against all other players.
The five-handed Euchre deck...
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| x Black Lady |
Black Lady is an extremely combative variant of the card game Whist, similar to the popular game Hearts, that is popular in the United Kingdom. It is commonly played among large groups of players (typically 8 to 10) using two decks of cards, or it...
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| x Decade |
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Decade also known by the names of Ten-Twenty-Thirty and One-Handed Solitaire is a solitaire card game played with a traditional 52 card deck that is akin to another solitaire game called Accordion. Like Accordion, it is traditionally played with the...
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| x Blackjack |
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Blackjack (also known as Twenty-one, Vingt-et-un (French for Twenty-one), or Pontoon, is the most widely played casino banking game in the world. Much of blackjack's popularity is due to the mix of chance with elements of skill, and the publicity...
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| x FreeCell |
FreeCell is a solitaire based card game played with a 52-card standard deck. Although implementations vary, most versions label the hands with a number (derived from the random number seed used to generate the hand). FreeCell is fundamentally...
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