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Classic Games

Classic Games · Trick-Taking
Skat

What Is Skat? Skat is Germany’s national card game and one of the most sophisticated trick-taking games ever…

Classic Games · Trick-Taking
Auction Pinochle

Three-player Pinochle — bid to play alone, take the widow, and make your contract or pay everyone.

Classic Games · Matching & Rummy
Canasta

What Is Canasta? Canasta is a partnership card game that swept the world in the 1950s, briefly overtaking…

Classic Games · Trick-Taking
Nap (Napoleon)

What Is Nap? Napoleon — usually called Nap — is a simple and exciting British trick-taking game where…

Classic Games · Matching & Rummy
Bezique (Rubicon)

Victorian Bezique with two full decks — higher melds, bigger scores, and a brutal Rubicon penalty for low…

Classic Games · Matching & Rummy
500 Rum

What Is 500 Rum? 500 Rum is a popular rummy variant with one important twist: you score points…

Classic Games · Trick-Taking
All Fours

What Is All Fours? All Fours is one of the oldest card games still played today, dating to…

Classic Games · Shedding
Switch

A British shedding game related to Uno and Crazy Eights — special cards skip, reverse, and force drawing.

Children's Games · Classic Games
War

What Is War? War is the perfect first card game. There are no decisions to make, no strategies…

Banking & Casino · Classic Games
Thirty-One

What Is Thirty-One? Thirty-One — also called Scat or Blitz — is a quick and tense card game…