Line #17 Main/CardGames


1	[[quoteright:350:[[VideoGame/NancyDrew https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nancydrewscopa_2.png]]]]
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3	->''"Card games are serious business!"''
4	-->-- '''Seto Kaiba''', ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries''
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6	[[index]]
7	[floatboxright:
8	'''Subcategories:'''
9	* CollectibleCardGame
10	* DeckbuildingGame
11	* UsefulNotes/TarotCards
12	* TrickTakingCardGame
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14	[[/index]]
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16	One of the classic genres of games. Card games are fairly simple: A series of cards with numbers, words, pictures or some other symbolism are dealt and then, either by yourself or with someone else, you pit the values of the cards against each other in what boils down in most games to basic math.
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18	Before paper cards, wood or bone tiles were often used and can still be found in some types of "card" games. Tile games like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominoes Dominoes]] and TabletopGame/{{Mahjong}} even share game types with cards, such as the Trick-Taking Game.
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20	Playing cards originated in China as early as the 11th century and took the world by storm, making up the majority of modern games. In Europe this system evolved in several directions (regional standards still exist in southern and central Europe).
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22	[[foldercontrol]]
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24	!! Modern Playing Cards
25	When they came to Europe (via the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road Silk Road]]) in the late 14th century, the standard of 52 cards, with each of the four suits having cards numbered from 1 to 10 plus three court cards, had already been established. The ''de facto'' international standard of four suits most known today -- hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs -- appeared in 16th century France.
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27	[[folder:Examples]]
28	[[index]]
29	* TabletopGame/TwentyTwo -- A trick-taking game in which your goal is not to take the last trick. Players who take the last trick add their last card to their score and deal the next hand. Players are eliminated upon accruing 22 points until only one remains.
30	* 31 -- Cards are only counted if they are of matching suits, with whoever has the lowest losing a counter (commonly a quarter), if a player is the lowest four times, they are out of the game.
31	* TabletopGame/{{Blackjack}} (aka 21) -- the gambler's game; made into a game show, as ''Series/{{Gambit}}''
32	* TabletopGame/{{Bridge}} -- the intellectual card game, with a rich {{Metagame}}
33	* Bullshit [=/=] BS [=/=] Cheat -- a popular card shedding game that rewards [[RefugeInAudacity outrageous cheating]]
34	* Canasta -- A partnership-based melding game that originated in UsefulNotes/{{Uruguay}}. Was a ''massive'' fad in the U.S. in TheFifties, and is sometimes claimed to be the reason standard decks started including jokers.
35	* Crazy Eights -- a matching game, fairly simple in its basic form, but it having NoUnifiedRuleset can result in {{Calvinball}} levels of complexity. Commercialized as ''TabletopGame/{{Uno}}''.
36	** TabletopGame/{{Mao}} -- a ridiculous variant. [[MindScrew The only rule of Mao you can know is that you can't know any of the other rules.]] UsefulNotes for the game are [[UsefulNotes/{{Mao}} here]].
37	* TabletopGame/{{Euchre}} -- a partnership-based trick-taking game in the Bridge-Whist family played with a deck of 24 cards (A, K, Q, J, 10, and 9 of each suit). A common pastime in the midwest of America, particularly the Great Lakes area, where it was probably developed by German immigrants; UsefulNotes/{{Michigan}}ders are particularly fanatical about the game.
38	* [[MostCommonCardGame Go Fish]] -- a simple game played by children and those who don't want to think too hard
39	* TabletopGame/{{Hearts}} -- a variation on the classic "four-person trick-winning game" which was once popular, gradually became less so over time, and was then revived when Microsoft [=PCs=] started coming with an electronic version fitted as standard.
40	* High-Lo: Try to guess which card in a line will be high or low. Also made into a game show, as ''Series/CardSharks''.
41	* TabletopGame/{{Kaiser}}
42	* TabletopGame/{{Kings}} -- a combination card and drinking game.
43	* Old Maid -- Another game popular with children. Match pairs of cards while trying not to get left with the only one that doesn't match.
44	* TabletopGame/{{Poker}} -- the mathematician's game, with [[TheMagicPokerEquation associated tropes]]
45	* TabletopGame/{{Preferans}} -- traditionally, the most popular game in UsefulNotes/{{Russia}}. Now not exactly the most popular, but still with a cult following.
46	* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durak Durak]] -- The other popular Russian card game, which poked Preferens from the top of the heap. Can also very easily turn into card-based Calvinball.
47	* TabletopGame/{{Rummy}}
48	* TabletopGame/{{Sheepshead}} -- in the same family as Spades and Hearts; popular in UsefulNotes/{{Wisconsin}}.
49	* TabletopGame/{{Skat}} -- traditionally, the most popular game in UsefulNotes/{{Germany}}.
50	* TabletopGame/{{Solitaire}} -- the loner's game; actually a catch-all for hundreds of games played by a single player (not that the media recognize more than one or two variants).
51	** TabletopGame/{{Freecell}} -- a Solitaire variant with the possibility to win almost any game.
52	* TabletopGame/{{Spades}} -- another four-person trick-winning game revived by Microsoft.
53	* Square -- a game of the elementary skills of number-matching and teamwork (or, depending on who you're playing with, insanity and more insanity).
54	* TabletopGame/{{Truco}}
55	* Whist -- a popular team-based card game ancestral to Bridge.
56	[[/folder]]
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58	!! {{Collectible Card Game}}s
59	This genre combines the collectability of, for instance, baseball cards, with the mechanics of a card game. They generally have vivid artwork and complicated effects and strategies. Some take place in an original universe, and others are tie-ins to movies or TV series. Some are massively popular, with [[TournamentPlay tournaments]] and thousands of cards.
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62	!! {{Deckbuilding Game}}s
63	Similar to [=CCGs=] in that players have individual decks, but they are created during the game from a shared pool. No collectibility is involved, and all players have equal access to cards.
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66	!! "Dedicated Deck" games
67	Between [=CCGs=] and Deckbuilding Games are these, which use cards with illustrations to implement whatever game concept the designer had. Like in [=CCGs=], these often have rule text printed on the cards and decks are set-up before the game. As in Deckbuilding Games, there's usually a fixed number of cards per deck that aren't collected individually, though there may be add-on decks.
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69	[[folder:Examples]]
70	* TabletopGame/ApplesToApples
71	* TabletopGame/BackToTheFuture
72	* TabletopGame/{{Bang}}
73	* TabletopGame/BeforeIKillYouMisterSpy
74	* TabletopGame/BlankWhiteCards
75	* TabletopGame/BloodOnTheClocktower
76	* TabletopGame/CardsAgainstHumanity
77	* [[TabletopGame/{{Century}} Century: Spice Road]] (stand-alone only)
78	* TabletopGame/ChaosMarauders
79	* TabletopGame/ChezGeek and its sequels (''Slack Attack, Block Party, Chez Greek, Chez Grunt, Chez Goth'' and ''Chez Cthulhu'')
80	* TabletopGame/{{Chrononauts}}
81	* TabletopGame/DrunkQuest
82	* TabletopGame/DeathAngel
83	* TabletopGame/{{Dominion}}
84	* TabletopGame/EpicCardGame
85	* TabletopGame/ExplodingKittens
86	* TabletopGame/FiveCrowns is a rummy-like game using a five-suited deck (yellow stars, red hearts, green clubs, black spades, blue diamonds).
87	* TabletopGame/{{Fluxx}} and its many spinoffs, including:
88	** TabletopGame/EcoFluxx
89	** TabletopGame/ZombieFluxx
90	* TabletopGame/{{Gloom}}
91	* Gother Than Thou
92	* TabletopGame/GraveRobbersFromOuterSpace and sequels such as [[HeroicFantasy Barbarian Halflings From the Dungeon of Dragons]] and [[TheSeventies Bell-Bottomed Badasses on the Mean Streets of Funk]]
93	* TabletopGame/{{Guillotine}}, where you win by getting a head.
94	* TabletopGame/{{Hanabi}}
95	* TabletopGame/HavokAndHijinks
96	* TabletopGame/HereToSlay
97	* TabletopGame/TheHobbitCardGame
98	* TabletopGame/{{Illuminati}}
99	* TabletopGame/KillerBunniesAndTheQuestForTheMagicCarrot
100	* TabletopGame/KitsuneOfFoxesAndFools
101	* TabletopGame/LoveLetter
102	* Lunch Money and its sequel, ''Beer Money''
103	* TabletopGame/MakersOfUno [[note]]Card Games by International Games Inc. and Mattel who use ''Uno'' as a [[AdvertisingByAssociation marketng gimmick]]. Games include ''Skip-Bo'', ''Phase 10'', and ''Lowdown''.[[/note]]
104	* TabletopGame/MarryingMrDarcy which is based on ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice''
105	* TabletopGame/MonopolyDeal and ''Monopoly Millionaire Deal''
106	* [[http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/games/ae1c/ The Monty Python card game]] [[note]]Can be very confusing at first[[/note]]
107	* Mr. Card Game, based on the browser game VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing.
108	* TabletopGame/MuffinTime, based on WebAnimation/ASDFMovie.
109	* TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}} and its sequels (''[[JustForFun/RecycledINSPACE Star Munchkin]], Munchkin Fu, Munchkin Bites, Super Munchkin, Munchkin Impossible'', ''Munchkin Cthulhu'', ''The Good, The Bad, And The Munchkin'', and ''Munchkin Booty'')
110	* TabletopGame/{{Netrunner}}
111	* TabletopGame/NinjaBurger
112	* TabletopGame/NuclearWar
113	* ARG/PerplexCity
114	* TabletopGame/{{Saboteur}} (and the Saboteur 2 expansion)
115	* TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse
116	* TabletopGame/SmashUp
117	* TabletopGame/SorcerersOfTheMagicKingdom
118	* TabletopGame/{{Sopio}}
119	* TabletopGame/SPANCSpacePirateAmazonNinjaCatgirls
120	* TabletopGame/StarRealms
121	* VideoGame/{{Spectromancer}}
122	* TabletopGame/StoryWar
123	* TabletopGame/TwilightSparklesSecretShipficFolder
124	* TabletopGame/{{Uno}} (including its many variants and the sequel, ''Dos'')
125	* TabletopGame/UnstableUnicorns
126	* TabletopGame/TheWerewolvesOfMillersHollow
127	* TabletopGame/Werewolf1997 (Also known as Mafia. This is the simpler version of TabletopGame/TheWerewolvesOfMillersHollow.)
128	* TabletopGame/{{Yomi}}
129	* TabletopGame/XMenTradingCardGame
130	[[/index]]
131	[[/folder]]
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134	!!Ganjifa
135	Ganjifa (aka Ganjapa or Gânjaphâ) is a card game from the Middle-East and Indian subcontinent. The cards can be circles or rectangles and have a long history. Website/TheOtherWiki [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganjifa has more.]]
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138	!!Karuta
139	A number of different card sets and games that fall under two general categories, Portuguese-derived and Eawase Karuta. The original cards were imported to Japan by the Portuguese sailors.
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141	[[folder:Examples]]
142	* Portuguese-derived Karuta
143	** Hanafuda [=/=] Go-Stop -- 48 card deck, with four cards for each month of the year. The Korean version Go-Stop adds jokers.
144	** Harifuda [=/=] Hikifuda -- 48 card deck with 8 copies of one through six cards.
145	** Kabufuda -- 40 card deck with Jacks as the only face card.
146	** Komatsufuda -- 48 card deck closest to the Portuguese deck, lacks [=10s=] and has Tarot-style suits.
147	** Unsun Karuta -- 75 cards, has 5 suits with 15 ranks. There are three extra face cards and one extra suit compared to modern playing cards.
148	* Eawase Karuta
149	** Iroha Karuta -- The game with yomifuda (reading cards) and torifuda (grabbing cards), with two sets of 100 poem cards.
150	** Uta Karuta -- Used for matching games, has 48 syllables in hiragana used to complete 48 proverbs.
151	[[/folder]]
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154	!!Tarot Games
155	A [[http://www.pagat.com/tarot/ family of games distantly related to Bridge and Whist]] and played with various forms of [[UsefulNotes/TarotCards Tarot decks]]. French tarot is particularly interesting because of its three-against-one playing style, but there are other versions played in Italy and central Europe. The tarot deck was originally used for card games (before fortune-telling) and gave rise to the modern trump suits.
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158	[[http://www.pagat.com/ Pagat.com]] describes the rules for many card games around the world.
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160	Oh, and don't mess with [[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries children's card games]], because card games are SeriousBusiness. Especially [[Anime/YuGiOh5Ds on motorcycles]].

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