Card games

261 games catalogued, 16 of them written up in full so far. Search the list, or ask a question about a specific rule.

Card game rules go wrong in the same two places every time: what beats what, and what happens when nobody can play. Every page here answers both in the first screen, before any of the history or the variations.

Where a game is played differently from one household to the next, and most of them are, the common version is written as the rules and the alternatives are listed as house rules. Agreeing which one you are playing before the deal is the single thing that prevents an argument later.

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