Card Games

Card games are a great way to pass the time with friends or teach children math skills. Rummy 500 is a more interactive card game, giving players the opportunity to engage with other players’...

Pinochle is a trick-taking and melding card game for two, with many variations. To take tricks, players show cards one at a time, with the highest-ranking card winning the trick. To meld, you...

Pitch is a card game in which players compete for the four points available in each hand. It is a trick-taking game that can be played individually or in teams.

Bidding and trick-taking are key components of the card game Setback. Players get six-card hands and try to be the first to score 11 points. Setback has similarities to other contract bidding...

There are many variations of the game of pinochle, but the standard is usually called single-deck pinochle. Single-deck pinochle uses a 48-card deck and four players split in teams of two. It is a...

"Sleeping Queens" is a card game introduced in 2005 by Gamewright, a company started in 1994 by four parents who wanted family games suitable for their own children. The game is set in a fantasy...

The three God Cards in the Yu-Gi-Oh game have perhaps the most powerful effects in the game. However, they are not allowed to be used in official tournaments because of these effects. Even if they...

Canasta is a great card game similar to rummy. You can play four or two person Canasta. When playing with four, there will be two teams and each team will work together to form Canastas. You need...

Truco is a card game that combines trick laying games like Pinochle and melding games like Rummy. A popular game in South America, it uses a Spanish card deck that has cards of 12 values and four...

Few things can provide more fun for the buck than a deck of playing cards. For only a few dollars you can buy a pack and play hundreds of card games. A few card games rise above the rest in their...

Euchre is a card game in which everyone tries to get as many tricks as possible, and the standard scoring system has that 10 points equal a game. Find out how to earn one, two or four points in a...

In euchre, a player is awarded one point for making three tricks, two points for a euchre and four points for a loner. Discover how the auction process works in euchre with help from the author of...

Piquet is an old and complex card game for two players. It involves both assembling combinations within a hand of cards and playing those cards in tricks. The game deck uses cards of seven or...

Schnapsen might seem like a relatively simple game considering it's only played with 20 cards. In reality though, it is quite complex. The rules of how the hand are played can change in the middle...

Hearts is a card game in which you try to get a low score rather than a high one. It is a trick taking game, but it is not the tricks which count, but the points within each trick. Each heart is...

In the Yu-Gi-Oh game, players use their collected playing cards to win duels with each other. The cards represent the monsters that fight the duels and spells and trap cards that can boost the...

Canasta is a card melding game where players try to assemble card combinations all of the same value. The game combines two full card decks with jokers for a total of 108 cards. Points are awarded...

Spades is a popular four-player card game in which two pairs of players attempt to accurately predict how many "tricks" they will win in each round of play. However, with a few simple variations...

The word "canasta" comes from the Spanish word for basket, and may be used to refer to the tray used to hold the deck and discard piles. Canasta has several variations but is best played with four...

The card game, Spades, is a really fun game. It's easy to learn how to keep track of each team's score. There are two steps to scoring in Spades. The first is recording the bids, and the second is...

Pimps and Tricks is a card game that is easy to teach. The game must be played by an even number of players. Players attempt to collect cards that can either score individually or score as a...

Go Fish was a popular game that you might have played as a child. As an adult, the appeal of that game has dropped, and it probably isn't in your regular game list unless you have a child. The...

Most card games simply involve a deck of cards, but the game of cribbage involves a pegging board. The board is used to tally the score of this classic card game. Cribbage may seem complicated at...

The game of Window Hearts is a somewhat complicated trick-taking game, only because the objectives on which players play their hands will change with each passing round. For the first seven rounds...

Kloepper is a somewhat different trick-taking game in that partners shift from round to round based on the cards in each player’s hand. Once the cards have been dealt, the players with the...

This version of Schmier comes from the heart of the Midwest. Two teams of three players are tasked with bidding their hands not based on the number of tricks they believe their team can take, but...

The game of Sixty-Six is a trick-taking game for two players. It is played with a reduced deck for as many rounds as it takes for one player to hit a certain number of points. You and your...

Pennies from Heaven is one of those card games that’s similar to Rummy 500 or Canasta as you and your partners are trying to create a set list of combinations—four to be exact. You...

Four Suit Rummy is a Rummy variation that allows two players to play a game where the first person to be out of cards isn't necessarily the one that scores the most points in the round. In Four...

"Wild Boom" is a trick-taking game not unlike many other trick-taking games, except players have the possibility of earning bonus points during a round of play based on the cards within a won...

The game of Cinch is not unlike many other trick-taking games played today, except you actually start out with more cards in your hand at the time of bid then when you begin to play. Hands of nine...

Broke is a trick-taking game for four players, where tricks are worth more or less points based on the combination of cards, and may be stolen by lower valued cards if played correctly....

The game of Jazz is an odd sort of trick-taking game as there are different conditions placed on the score based on the outcome of each hand. And for a very interesting twist, you never know what...

The Four Card Draw card game is a very simple gambling game to play. Each player can see all the cards that each of the other players receive. There is no wagering after each card is dealt. The...

Clabber is like many of the trick-taking games played today, except you’re not awarded the number of tricks you take, but the actual point value of cards in those tricks. Plus,...

Irish Don is somewhat similar to many of the trick-taking games played today. The main difference is that you and your partner will peg points on a cribbage board. You'll do this based on the...

With a name like Chicago, you’d think this game would’ve been created in the United States, but it actually found its way here from Sweden. Players must to get the best poker hand...

Valet is probably as straightforward as they come, in terms of card games. Three to four players are simply tasked with taking a trick. The more tricks you take, the more points you earn. But be...

Calabresella is a fairly simple trick-taking game in which players are tasked with not just taking tricks, but tricks with point cards—they’re the only cards worth points. When you...

The game of Busca is a slightly different trick-taking game in that people are trying to not take tricks that contain point cards. The object of the game is to get the least amount of point cards...

Catch Five is a slightly different trick-taking game. Point cards are used to increase your overall score. This is done instead of the number of tricks taken in a given hand. Players bid, call...

The game of 500 is a partner, trick-taking game for four players. Teams simply bid their hands in hopes of taking at least that number of tricks for a given round. Of course, you can be outbid by...

Cramps is a rather basic and unique card game. The goal is to score the most points and to reach 31 points before any other player. The challenge is that, during a hand, each trick is worth...

If you couldn’t tell by the name, "Schwimmen" is a card game that was brought over to the United States from Germany. It is typically played with a single deck of cards and between 2 to 8...

Belote is a French trick-taking game played with four players in teams of two. If you’ve ever played a card game with trump, you should have no real problem picking up the rules, though...

A single deck of cards holds almost an endless variety of gaming possibilities, including the card game 200. This game is a cooperative trick-taking game where two teams of two players are tasked...

The Afterlife Card Game is a card game that combines aspects of Rummy, Poker, and point counting. These three combine to make Afterlife and entertaining game for your home card game night. Players...

Spades is one of the classic card games, and is commonly enjoyed among four players divided into two teams. There are several ways to score in the game, including catching tricks and successfully...

Learn how to play the risky and exciting suicide variation of spades. Four players are involved. One player from each team is forced to bid nil, meaning she must avoid catching any tricks during...

This is a game of strategy and precision with similarities to Whist, Spades and Hearts. The point of the game is to make your bid (between two and four) or to stop your opponent(s) from making his...