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
The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game films for use on cards. The game also has an online version that maintains identical gameplay as well as a market economy. However, since the game's print run has ended, sales for online cards have been stopped and the servers closed in June 2010. In 2002, "LOTR TCG" won the Origins Awards for "Best Trading Card Game of 2001" and "Best Graphic Presentation of a Card Game 2001". "The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game" is a game for two or more players, each of who uses his or her own deck consisting of equal numbers of "Free Peoples"