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Mao
What Is Mao? Mao is unlike any other card game because the rules are completely secret. When you sit down to play for the first…
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What Is Mao? Mao is unlike any other card game because the rules are completely secret. When you sit down to play for the first…
What Is Tichu? Tichu is a partnership card game from Switzerland, based on Chinese card games, and one of the most strategically deep shedding games…
What Is Comet? Comet is an 18th-century card game that became wildly popular after Halley’s Comet passed in 1759. Players shed cards by playing them…
What Is Baccarat? Baccarat is the glamorous casino card game associated with James Bond and high-stakes gambling. Despite its sophisticated reputation, it is actually one…
What Is Cassino? Cassino — also spelled Casino — is one of the oldest fishing card games still played, with roots going back centuries. Players…
What Is Red Dog? Red Dog — also called Acey-Deucey or In-Between — is one of the fastest and simplest casino card games ever created.…
What Is Pontoon? Pontoon is the British ancestor of Blackjack, popular in home games across the UK and Australia. Like Blackjack, you try to get…
Hit your target of 8, 5, or 3 tricks. Exceed it and win cards — fall short and give your best cards away.
Three-player Pinochle — bid to play alone, take the widow, and make your contract or pay everyone.
Victorian Bezique with two full decks — higher melds, bigger scores, and a brutal Rubicon penalty for low scorers.
Exact bid trick-taking with a mandatory zero bid at least once per game — and going over your bid scores nothing.
A contract rummy from the Middle East and Europe — opening meld of 51+ points, Joker stealing, and a final round with no discard.