Card game
A card game is any game using playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played.
Contents
Description
Countless card games exist, including families of related games (such as poker).
Types of card games
- Trick-taking games
- Matching games
- Shedding games
- Accumulating games
- Fishing games
- Comparing games
- Solitaire (Patience) games
- Drinking card games
- Multi-genre games
- Collectible card games (CCGs)
- Casino or gambling card games
- Poker games
- Other card games
- Fictional card games
Asymmetrical card games
An asymmetrical card game is a card game which is not symmetrical.
In Madiao, one player is "the banker", three other players form a team against the banker.
Origins
A small number of card games played with traditional decks have formally standardized rules, but most are folk games whose rules vary by region, culture, and person.
Cards in other types of games
Many games that are not generally placed in the family of card games do in fact use cards for some aspect of their gameplay.
Cards in board games
Some games that are placed in the card game genre involve a board.
The distinction is that the gameplay of a card game primarily depends on the use of the cards by players (the board is simply a guide for scorekeeping or for card placement), while board games (the principal non-card game genre to use cards) generally focus on the players' positions on the board, and use the cards for some secondary purpose.
See also
- Game
- Game of chance
- Game of skill
- R. F. Foster
- Edmond Hoyle
- Henry Jones (writer) who wrote under the pseudonym "Cavendish"
- Pagat.com
- David Parlett
- Pip (playing cards)
- Playing card
- John Scarne
External links
- Card game @ Wikipedia
