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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 information known...

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 other until one,...

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 cards into melds. Each...

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 three or more cards...

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 get rid of one's cards...

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 accumulated hand. The last...

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 person is elected to...

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 scored whenever...

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 be collected in...

Shithead 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 similar, but there...

Pitch is a card game played with a standard 52-card pack of playing cards. It may be played by three players (cutthroat) or by four players organized in teams of two. Pitch involves bidding and trick-taking. Pitch may involve betting or gambling of any sort. A very...

Gin rummy (or Gin for short) is a simple and popular two-player card game created by Elwood T. Baker in 1909. Gin, which evolved from 18th-century Whiskey Poker (according to John Scarne), was created with the intention of being faster than standard rummy, but not as...

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 name is the Italian...

Skat is (along with Doppelkopf) the most popular card game in Germany and Silesia. It is also played in American regions with large German populations, such as Wisconsin and Texas. It is a three- or four-player game of tricks using a 32-card deck. The deck of 32...

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 partnership must get...

500 Rum, also called Pinochle Rummy or Michigan 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 the value of the sets he melds. ...

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 at a table. The...

Sixty Six is a four player trick taking card game. This game uses German 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 below removed from a standard...

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 mainly in the USA, and...

gular game of bullshit, with the exception that, you can play either cards of the same, one higher or one lower rank as the previous player. It is possible that this version is also played in other places Some people play a version commonly referred to as Tequila...

All-Fours is a card game known in America as Old Sledge, or Seven Up. It is usually played by two players, althought 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 highest, and the twothe lowest....

Canasta is a matching card game in which the object is to create melds of cards of the same rank and then go out by playing or discarding all the cards in your hand. The distinctive feature of Canasta, as opposed to other Rummy games, is that making a seven-card...

Panguingue (also known as Pan) is a gambling card game similar to rummy. It used to be particularly popular in Las Vegas and other casino in the American southwest. Its popularity has been waning, and now is only found in one casino in Las Vegas (The Plaza Hotel,) and...

Piquet is a card game for two players. It is considered by many to be one of the best two player card games. 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...

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 most famous...

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 dealt five cards,...

The cards are shuffled by the dealer and cut by the player to dealer's right. Cards can be dealt in ones but it is common practice to deal the cards in groups of three and then a single card for the last round (3,3,3,3,1). The last card is turned face up to...

Bowling Solitaire is a card game by Sid Sackson described in his book A Gamut of Games. It simulates ten-pin bowling.

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 authorities claiming...

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.