Card games

A card game is any game using playing cards, either traditional or specialized. A participant in such a game is a card player.

Other games using cards include trading card games and combination games which use cards in addition to other playing equipment.

Trick-taking games

500
9-5-2
All-Fours
Bezique
Black Lady
Bridge
Cinch
Ecarte
Euchre
Forty-five (card game)
Hearts (see also Black Lady to which it is related).
Hokm
Loo
Napoleon
Ninety-nine
Oh Hell
Pinochle
Piquet
Quinto
Sergeant Major
Sheepshead
Skat
Skitgubbe (phase 1)
Solo
Spades
Tarocchi
Tarock (played with a Tarot deck)
Whist
Wizard

Matching games

These are also referred to as the Rummy family.

500 Rum
Canasta
Concentration (game)
Durak
Gin (Gin Rummy)
Go Fish
Happy Families
Kemps (Scenics)
Robbers' rummy
Skitgubbe (phase 2)
Snap
Spoons

Gambling games

Solitaire or Patience games

Armistice Day Patience
Concentration/game
Clock patience
FreeCell
Klondike
Solitaire Showdown

Shedding games

These are also referred to as the Stops family.

Crazy Eights
Eat Ch
Fan Tan
Macau
Mao
Michigan Rummy
Nain Jaune
Old Maid
President
Slapjack
Shichi Narabe
Shithead
UNO

Accumulating games

Beggar-My-Neighbour
Casino
Egyptian Rat Screw (ERS)
Spit
War
Seven Spades

Games with special decks

Flinch
Grass
Hanafuda
Karuta
Magic The Gathering
Mille Bournes
Netrunner
Nuclear War
Pit
Rook
Set game
Twitch
UNO
Wizard Wizard Card Game

Cooperative games

Tri

Inductive games

Eleusis

Multi-genre games

Poke - a non-betting derivative of Poker with elements of trick-taking games
Most solitaire games are multi-genre.

Trading card games

Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game
Magic: The Gathering
Star Trek Customizable Card Game
Star Wars Customizable Card Game

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