Card Games
Field reference for the rules and lineage of common card games — solitaires, group games, trick-taking, shedding games, and classics.
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Poker (the wagering hand-comparison family)
Poker is a family of comparing card games in which players wager over which hand is best according to that game's rules. It is played worldwide with regional rule variations. The earliest known form was a 20-card game…
Read in full →How to deal a card game cleanly
General reference for dealing a card game in a way that is fair, audited by everyone at the table, and easy to recover from if a card is dropped or out of place. Specific games specify their own deal patterns; this is…
Read in full →Hand rankings — five-card poker quick reference
Quick-reference card for five-card poker hand rankings, listed in order from highest to lowest. The rankings are universal across most variants of poker; lowball variants invert them. Suits are not ranked against each…
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Solitaire
- Solitaire as a family of single-player card games In app
- Klondike (the standard solitaire) In app
- Spider (two-deck building solitaire) In app
- FreeCell (open-information solitaire) In app
- Pyramid (simple-addition solitaire) In app
Trick-Taking
- Contract Bridge (the modern partnership game) In app
- Whist (the classic English trick-taker) In app
- Hearts (the standard trick-avoidance game) In app
- Spades (the bid-and-make trick-taker) In app
- Cribbage (peg-board scoring game) In app
- Pinochle (German-American melding game) In app
- Euchre (the short-deck Midwestern game) In app
- Pitch / Auction Pitch / Setback In app
- 500 (American trick-taker, Australian national game) In app
- Skat (the German national three-player game) In app
- Sheepshead (American Schafkopf) In app
- Bezique (the 19th-century French ancestor of Pinochle) In app
- Briscola (Italian ace-ten game) In app
- Cassino (the English fishing game) In app
Rummy & Matching
- Rummy (the matching-card family) In app
- Gin Rummy (the two-handed standard) In app
- Canasta (the partnership rummy from Uruguay) In app
Shedding
- Crazy Eights (the American shedding standard) In app
- President (the climbing game) In app
- Cheat (also called BS or I Doubt It) In app
Children & Family
- Go Fish (the children's matching standard) In app
- Old Maid (the odd-card-out family game) In app
- War (the simplest two-player card game) In app
- Speed (real-time two-player shedding) In app
- Egyptian Ratscrew (slap-driven matching) In app
Classic Casino-Style
- Blackjack (the twenty-one banking game) In app
- Poker (the wagering hand-comparison family) Sample ✓
- Texas Hold 'em (the modern community-card poker) In app
- Five-Card Draw (the simplest poker) In app
- Seven-Card Stud (the pre-Hold 'em standard) In app