Card Games/List
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Trick Taking Card Games [edit]
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
- All Fours
- 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
Rummy Card Games [edit]
The object of Rummy-style games is to play groups of matching cards before your opponent(s).
Casino and Gambling Card Games [edit]
- Blackjack
- Poker games already have a comprehensive wikibook.
- Vegas Rummy
Solitaire Card Games [edit]
- Solitaire games are single player card games.
Shedding Card Games [edit]
The object of a shedding game is to get rid of all of one's cards.
Accumulating Card Games [edit]
The object of an accumulating game is to get all the cards.
Fishing Card Games [edit]
Go fish
Drinking Card Games [edit]
Miscellaneous Card Games [edit]
All other games that don't fit into one of the above categories.
