Card game or for card placement), while board games (the principal non-card game genre to use cards) generally focus on the players' positions on the board, and use the cards for some secondary purpose. A card game is played with a "deck" or "pack" of playing cards which are identical in size and shape. Each card has two sides, the "face" and the "back". Normally the backs of the cards are indistinguishable. The faces of the cards may all be unique, or there can be duplicates. The composition of a deck is known to each player. In some cases several decks are
Collectible card game card game as early as 1979. "The Base Ball Card Game", a prototype from 1904, is a notable precursor to CCGs because it had a few similar qualities but it never saw production to qualify it as a "collectible" card game. It is not known if the game was intended to be a standalone product or something altogether different like Top Trumps. The game consisted of a limited 112 cards and never saw manufacture past the marketing stage. In 1951, Topps released the "" that resembled CCGs because the game cards were sold in random packs and were collectible, however