Card games Card games Alpha Blitz is a word game designed by Mike Selinker and published by Wizards of the Coast. Alpha Blitz is based on the concept of a letter bank, as players make words using the letter cards on the table as many times as they like (e.g., LENS can become SENSELESSNESS). The game contains 98 letter cards and 10 "blitzes" (lightning bolt cards) that destroy letters and bring the game toward conclusion. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alpha Blitz"
Ambigu is a French card game, composed of the characteristic elements of whist, bouillotte and piquet. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ambigu"
Baccarat is a gambling card game. It is supposed to have been introduced into France from Italy during the reign of Charles VIII of France (ruled 1483-1498). There are three accepted variants of the game: baccarat chemin de fer (railway), baccarat banque (or a deux tableaux), and punto banco (or North American baccarat). ...more on Wikipedia about "Baccarat"
:This article is about the Bang! card game. For more uses of the word Bang, please see Bang (disambiguation). ...more on Wikipedia about "Bang!"
The Baraja is a Spanish set of playing cards closely resembling the common 52-card Anglo-French deck, but is usually made up of only 48 cards. Often the eights and nines are omitted to create a 40-card deck. It is still possible to find them in a normal 52-card "Anglo-French" deck style. It consists of four suits of twelve cards and two jokers (or comodins). The ten, eleven, and twelve have pictures and values similar to the jack, queen, and king in an Anglo-French deck. They are the "sota" which is similar to the jack, the "caballo" (knight), and the "rey" (king) respectively. The suits are swords(espadas), clubs(bastos), cups(copas), and coins(oros). It is an ancient deck that existed in Spain since between the 13-1500's. They closely resemble the suits of Tarot decks. In fact, the Baraja are used much in the same way as many mystics use the Tarot. The Baraja have been widely considered to be part of the occult in many Latin-American countries, yet they continue to be used widely for card games and gambling, especially in Spain which does not use the Anglo-French deck. Among other places, the Baraja have appeared in One Hundred Years of Solitude and other Hispanic and Latin American literature. ...more on Wikipedia about "Baraja (playing cards)"
Basra is a card game played in Eastern Mediterranean countries such as Lebanon and Egypt. It is a vareity of fishing played by four people. ...more on Wikipedia about "Basra (game)"
The game of Basset (in French Bassette, from Italian Bassetta) was considered one of the most polite games with cards, and only fit for persons of the highest rank to play at, on account of the great losses or gains that might accrue on one side or the other. ...more on Wikipedia about "Basset"
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The card game Big Two ( Chinese: 大二; pinyin: dà èr; Cantonese: 鋤大D) is a card game similar to the game of President (also known as Asshole). It is sometimes called "Chinese poker" because of its Chinese origin and its use of poker hands, though there is actually a different game by that name; see the Chinese poker article. ...more on Wikipedia about "Big Two"
Bingo is a gambling card game named by analogy to the board game bingo. Each player is dealt X cards and Y cards are dealt face down in common. The value of each hand is the sum of the values of each card, where the cards have blackjack values. The cards on the board are gradually revealed with opportunities to bet along the way. Bingo is usually played high-low with the pot being split between the players with the highest and lowest point totals. The exception would be if one player loses all his cards he takes the entire pot. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bingo (card game)"
Blind Hookey is a card game played with a full pack of cards, sometimes used for the purpose of gambling. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blind Hookey"
Bohnanza is a German-style card game of trading and politics, designed by Uwe Rosenberg and released in 1997 by Amigo Spiele in German and by Rio Grande Games in English. It is played with a deck of cards with comical illustrations of eight different types of beans (of varying scarcities), which the players are trying to plant and sell in order to raise money. The principal restriction is that players may only be farming two or three types of bean at once, but they obtain beans of all different types randomly from the deck, and so must engage in trading with the other players to be successful. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bohnanza"
Bouillotte, a French game of cards, very popular during ...more on Wikipedia about "Bouillotte"
Bowling Solitaire is a card game by Sid Sackson described in his book A Gamut of Games. It simulates ten-pin bowling. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bowling Solitaire"
In card games, card counting is the process of gaining an advantage by tracking the cards which have been played, so the player has an idea of the value of the cards remaining to be dealt. Card-counters use this information to determine how much to bet or how to play their hands. Card counting is most popular with blackjack, though it is also used in Bridge-Techniques. Card counting can also be used in two-player canasta that is found on Yahoo to build a large discard pile and eventually take it. In certain poker games, keeping track of precisely which cards have been dealt is essential. For example in 7-card stud, if an opponent is showing a partial straight that cannot be finished because the missing cards have already been dealt, one would bet more aggressively than if there were a possibility of the opponent holding a straight. This particular skill is not usually called "card counting," however. ...more on Wikipedia about "Card counting"
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A card game is any game using playing cards, either traditional or game-specific. ...more on Wikipedia about "Card game"
A card sharp (also commonly known as card shark) is a person who purposely cheats at cards with the aim of making money. Card sharps are also known as "mechanics" — an older term is "greek". ...more on Wikipedia about "Card sharp"
Cheating in poker is any behavior outside the rules intended to give an unfair advantage to one or more players. Many people make the distinction in poker between hard cheating (mechanics, collusion, and the like) and soft cheating (noting the bottom card that the dealer happened to expose without calling for a misdeal). While the rules are explicit on the subject of cheating in general, many otherwise fair players are tempted to "soft cheat". Miscalling your hand (calling four hearts a flush, for example--hence a " four-flusher") is cheating, while offering alcoholic drinks is not, because each player can decline. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cheating in poker"
Chinese Blackjack is also known as 21-point, ban-nag (Cantonese). It is a gambling game played in South East Asia bearing similarity to the western Blackjack. It is very addictive and could lead to problem gambling, thus readers of this page are advised to try playing the game cleanly (play with fake money). ...more on Wikipedia about "Chinese Blackjack"
Clabber is a card game similar to euchre and hearts. It is played using 32 of the standard 52 cards in a deck. ...more on Wikipedia about "Clabber"
Cooncan is a card game for 2 players using 40 cards that is an early version of rummy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cooncan"
Da Bai Fen is a Chinese card game that uses a full 54-card deck. ...more on Wikipedia about "Da Bai Fen"
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Durak (Дурак, translates literally as "fool") is a Russian card game. ...more on Wikipedia about "Durak"
The Dvorak Card Game is a customizable card game that begins with a deck of blank index cards. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dvorak (game)"
Écarté is a two-player card game originating from France, the word literally meaning 'discarded'. It is 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 it seems likely that Écarté is the game from which Euchre was developed. Écarté was popular in the 19th Century but is now more unusual. ...more on Wikipedia about "Écarté"
Edmond Hoyle ( 1672 - August 29, 1769) , also known as Edmund Hoyle, is a writer best known for his works providing detailed descriptions of games. The phrase "according to Hoyle" came into the language, a reflection of his generally-perceived authoritativeness on the subject. ...more on Wikipedia about "Edmond Hoyle"
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