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Card games, obscure and famous

Word List with 19 words
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baccarat

a gambling game at cards played by a banker and two or more punters who bet against the banker.

bezique

a game resembling pinochle, originally played with 64 cards and now more commonly with 128 cards and, sometimes, 192 or 256 cards.

blackjack

a gambling game at cards, in which the object is to obtain from the dealer cards whose values add up to, or close to, 21 but which do not exceed it.

bridge

a game derived from whist in which one partnership plays to fulfill a certain declaration against an opposing partnership acting as defenders.

concentration

a game in which all 52 cards are spread out face down on the table and each player in turn exposes two cards at a time and replaces them face down if they do not constitute a pair, the object being to take the most pairs by remembering the location of the

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euchre

a game played by two, three, or four persons, usually with the 32, but sometimes with the 28 or 24, highest cards in the pack.

go fish

a card game for two or more persons similar to the game of authors.

mah jong

a game of Chinese origin usually played by four persons with 144 dominolike pieces or tiles marked in suits, counters, and dice, the object being to build a winning combination of pieces.

monte bank

a gambling game played with a 40-card pack in which players bet that one of two layouts, each consisting of two cards drawn from either the top or bottom of the deck and turned face up, will be matched in suit by the next card turned up.

old maid

a simple game, played with a deck having one card removed, in which the players draw from one another to match pairs and the one holding an odd queen at the end loses.

ombre

a card game popular in the 17th and 18th centuries and played, usually by three persons, with 40 cards.

pinochle

a popular card game played by two, three, or four persons, with a 48-card deck.

rummy

any of various card games for two, three, or four players, each usually being dealt seven, nine, or ten cards, in which the object is to match cards into sets and sequences.

skat

a card game for three players, using a pack of 32 playing cards, sevens through aces, the object being to fulfill any of various contracts, with scoring computed on strategy and on tricks won.

slapjack

a simple card game.

solitaire

any of various games played by one person with one or more regular 52-card packs, part or all of which are usually dealt out according to a given pattern, the object being to arrange the cards in a predetermined manner.

stud poker

a variety of poker in which each player is dealt one card face down in the first round and one card face up in each of the next four rounds, each of the last four rounds being followed by a betting interval.

three-card monte

a gambling game in which the players are shown three cards and bet that they can identify one particular card of the three, as stipulated by the dealer, after the cards have been moved around face down by the dealer.

whist

a card game, an early form of bridge, but without bidding.