Card game 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 poker). A small number of card games played with traditional decks have formally standardized rules, but most are folk games whose rules vary by region, culture, and person. Games using playing cards exploit the fact that cards are individually identifiable from one side only, so that each player knows only the cards he holds and not those held by anyone else. For this
Mariage (card game) also a close relative but features a number of peculiarities, has spawned numerous variants, and is played with 36 cards. The popular South Asian card games "Twenty-eight" and "Twenty-nine" are derivatives of this family and share many of its characteristics. The earliest known games of this family were two-handed, such as "klaberjass" (also known as "bela") which is still played worldwide. Royal Marriage, a solitaire game in which the goal is also the union of a King and Queen Mariage (card game) The King–Queen card games, also known as the marriage group, are a family of point-trick games of which