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
Pivot (card game) play a card, that player must draw one card from the draw pile. For example, if the direction is Up and the last played Number card was 42, valid plays are any Number card higher than 42, a Down card, or a Pivot card (which would have the same effect as a Down card). Pivot (card game) Pivot is a casual card game released by Wizards of the Coast in 1998. The game was designed by André François. "Pivot", along with "Alpha Blitz", "Go Wild!", and "Twitch", were part of a move by Wizards of the Coast to diversify beyond