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| x Whist |
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52 | Clockwise | Anglo-American |
Whist is a classic English trick-taking card game which was played widely in the 18th and 19th centuries. It derives from the 16th century game of Trump or Ruff, via Ruff and Honours. Although the rules are extremely simple, there is enormous scope...
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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, the third step in the evolution of the general game of bridge, was developed from straight bridge in 1904. Precursor to contract bridge its predecessors were Whist and Bridge whist.
The main difference between auction...
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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 trick-taking card game derived from the 17th century game of All-Fours. Pitch involves bidding and may include betting or gambling. There are many variations of Pitch. Most variations use slightly different scoring...
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| x Gin rummy |
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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 trick-taking card game, and one of the two major national card games in Italy. It is played with a standard Italian 40-card deck, mostly between two players or four in two partnerships, but it can also be played by 3, 5, or 6...
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| x Skat |
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32 | Clockwise | German |
Skat, one of the world's great trick-taking card games, is an early 19th century game devised in Germany. Along with Doppelkopf it is the most popular card game in Germany and Silesia, also played in areas of America with large German populations,...
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| x Marjapussi | 36 | Clockwise | Anglo-American |
Marjapussi (Bag of Berries) is a traditional Finnish partnerships 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...
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| x 500 Rum | 52 | Clockwise | Anglo-American |
500 Rum, also called Pinochle Rummy, Michigan Rummy, Rummy 500 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...
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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, also called Mariage and said to have been invented at Paderborn in 1652, is a four-player trick-taking card game of German origin.
Sixty six was widely played in the Polish American community in South Bend, Indiana, in the 50s and 60s....
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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. Others are allowed to challenge the veracity...
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| x All-Fours |
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52 | Clockwise | Anglo-American |
All-Fours, All-Fools, is an English tavern trick-taking card game dating from about the middle of the 17th century, and may have been adapted by the English from another typically low-class Dutch game. It was introduced to the United States in 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 |
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320 | Clockwise | Anglo-American |
Panguingue (pronounced pan-geen-eee), also known as Pan, is a 19th century gambling card game probably of Philippine origin similar to rummy, first described in America in 1905. It used to be particularly popular in Las Vegas and other casinos in...
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| x Piquet |
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Piquet (French pronunciation: [pike], English: /ˈpɪkɨt/) is an early 16th century trick-taking card game for two players.
Piquet has long been regarded as one of the all-time great card games still being played. It was first mentioned on a written...
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| x Bezique |
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Bezique, is a 19th century French melding and trick-taking card game for two players derived from Mariage via Briscan by the addition of more scoring features, notably a peculiar liaison Q ♠and J♦ under the names Bésigue, Binokel, Pinochle, etc.,...
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| x Musta Maija |
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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 whose direct ancestor is the 17th century Spanish game Hombre, based on the English Whist. Its major distinctive feature is that one player often plays against the other three....
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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 |
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Primo visto, Primavista, Prima-vista, Primi-vist, Primiuiste, Primofistula, or even Primefisto, is a 16th-century gambling card game fashionable c. 1530-1640. Very little is known about this game, but judging by the etymology of the words used to...
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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 |
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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 |
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Tri is a two- or three-player matchingcard 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.
The game was...
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| x Spades |
Spades is a partnership trick-taking card game devised in the United States in the 1930s, 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...
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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 |
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Pedro (pronounced "peedro"), sometimes known as Pidro or Petro, is a card game of the All-Fours family. It is usually played by four people, who are usually divided into two partnerships sitting across from each other. It is a trick-taking game...
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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.
2 decks (104 cards) are used, 28 cards are dealt out to seven diminishing columns with the bottom card of each column...
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| x Klaverjas |
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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...
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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 |
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Bid Euchre, is the name given to a group of card games played in North America on the popular game Euchre. It introduces an element of bidding in which the trump suit is decided by which player can bid to take the most tricks. Bid Euchre is very...
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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 |
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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 card matching rules (generally simplified, but thereby no...
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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 |
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Shanghai rum is a Rummy card game, based on gin rummy and a variation of Manipulation Rummy played by 3 to 8 players. It is also known as shanghai rummy, contract rummy, or California rummy.
Shanghai rum is played with multiple decks of 54 standard...
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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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Pilotta (in Greek Πιλόττα) is a trick-taking 32-card game whose origin probably goes back to the Frankish occupation of the Greek lands after 1204. The game is broadly similar to Contract Bridge and closely related to the French game Belote. It is...
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| x Bouillotte |
Bouillotte, a vying 18th century French gambling card game of the Revolution, based on Brelan, very popular during the 19th century in France and again in America for some years from 1830. Bouillotte is regarded as one of the games that influenced...
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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 |
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This article deals with variations in game playing. For a description on variations in game rules and terminology, see Euchre variations.
Euchre has many variations in game playing. Some of them are designed for two, three, five or even six hands....
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| x Black Lady |
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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. The basic rules of the game involve adding the value of an initial two card hand in hopes of being...
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| x FreeCell |
FreeCell is a solitaire based card game played with a 52-card standard deck. Although software implementations vary, most versions label the hands with a number (derived from the random number seed used to generate the hand). FreeCell is...
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| x California Speed |
California Speed, also known as Super-Speed in Wisconsin and Rush in Missouri, is a fast paced shedding card game that has the added bonus of shuffling the deck.
Shuffle the deck if it hasn't already been shuffled. This does not need to be done...
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