Card game drama revolves around the play of the game. Some of these games become real card games as the holder of the intellectual property develops and markets a suitable deck and ruleset for the game, while others, such as "Exploding Snap" from the Harry Potter franchise, lack sufficient descriptions of rules, or depend on cards or other hardware that are infeasible or physically impossible. Card game A card game is any game using playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, be they traditional or game-specific. Countless card games exist, including families of related games (such as
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