Card Games

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Contents 1 Trick Taking Card Games 2 Rummy Card Games 3 Casino and Gambling Card Games 4 Solitaire Card Games 5 Shedding Card Games 6 Accumulating Card Games 7 Fishing Card Games 8 Drinking Card Games 9 Miscellaneous Card Games

[edit] Trick Taking Card Games

The object of a trick-taking game is to take (or avoid taking) tricks, or groups of cards played simultaneously or in turn.

• 400 – a Lebanese game similar to Spades
• 500 – based on Euchre
• Barbu – similar to Hearts
• Bezique – classical game based on Piquet, similar to two-handed Pinochle
• Bourre – gambling game, related to Spades and Euchre
• Briscola – Italian
• Cắt Tê – Vietnamese game focused on the last trick, related to the domino game Tien Gow
• Clabber – similar to Euchre and Hearts
• Contract bridge – related to Whist
• Court Piece – An Asian game similar to Contract Bridge
• Doppelkopf – popular game in Germany, related to Schafkopf
• Écarté – classical two-player game, related to Euchre
• Escova – Italian
• Euchre – popular in English-speaking countries, related to Écarté
• Forty-fives – Irish
• Gong Zhu (also known as Chase the Pig) – a Chinese version of Hearts
• Hearts – whist variant, objective is to avoid certain cards
• Hokm – Iranian version of Whist, similar to Spades
• Jass games - has the distinguishing feature that Jack and Nine of the trump suit are the highest trumps.
• Kaiser – four-handed game played in Canada
• Klaverjas
• Mighty – five-handed game similar to Hearts, Rook and Nap
• Napoleon (or Nap) – trick-taking game with auction, based on whist, variable number of players
• Nines – three-handed whist variant
• Oh Hell – trick-taking game in which an exact number of tricks must be won
• Old Maid – children's game
• Pinochle – trick-taking game with melding phase, based on Bezique
• Piquet – classical two-player trick-taking game with melding phase
• Pitch
• Preferans
• Rook
• Ruff and Honours
• Schafkopf
• Sheepshead
• Shelem
• Sixty-three
• Skat
• Spades
• Spitzer
• Splash!
• Sueca
• Svoyi Koziri
• Tarabish
• Tarneeb
• Tarot
• Tele-Bankio
• Thunee
• Tichu
• Tremp
• Truco
• Twenty-eight
• Whist
• Wizard

[edit] Rummy Card Games

The object of Rummy-style games is to play groups of matching cards before your opponent(s).

• Vegas Rummy

[edit] Casino and Gambling Card Games

• Poker games already have a comprehensive wikibook.
• Vegas Rummy

[edit] Solitaire Card Games

Solitaire games are single player card games.

[edit] Shedding Card Games

The object of a shedding game is to get rid of all of one's cards.

• Mao

[edit] Accumulating Card Games

The object of an accumulating game is to get all the cards.

• Egyptian Ratscrew
• Fool's Paradise

[edit] Fishing Card Games

[edit] Drinking Card Games

[edit] Miscellaneous Card Games

All other games that don't fit into one of the above categories.