Preferans - traditionally, the most popular game in Russia.Poker - the mathematician's game, with associated tropes.Match pairs of cards while trying not to get left with the only one that doesn't match. Old Maid - Another game popular with children.Kings - a combination card and drinking game.Also made into a game show, as Card Sharks. High-Lo: Try to guess which card in a line will be high or low.Hearts - a variation on the classic 'four-person trick-winning game' which was once popular, gradually became less so over time, and was then revived when Microsoft PCs started coming with an electronic version fitted as standard.

Go Fish - a simple game played by children and those who don't want to think too hard.A common pastime in the midwest of America, particularly the Great Lakes area, where it was probably developed by German immigrants Michiganders are particularly fanatical about the game. Euchre - a partnership-based trick-taking game in the Bridge-Whist family played with a deck of 24 cards (A, K, Q, J, 10, and 9 of each suit).The only rule of Mao you can know is that you can't know any of the other rules. Crazy Eights - a matching game, fairly simple in its basic form, but it having No Unified Ruleset can result in Calvinball levels of complexity.in The '50s, and is sometimes claimed to be the reason standard decks started including jokers. Canasta - A partnership-based melding game that originated in Uruguay.

Bullshit / BS / Cheat - a popular card shedding game that rewards outrageous cheating.

Bridge - the intellectual card game, with a rich Metagame.

Blackjack (aka 21) - the gambler's game made into a game show, as Gambit.

31 - Cards are only counted if they are of matching suits, with whoever has the lowest losing a counter (commonly a quarter), if a player is the lowest four times, they are out of the game.

Players are eliminated upon accruing 22 points until only one remains. Players who take the last trick add their last card to their score and deal the next hand.

22 - A trick-taking game in which your goal is not to take the last trick.

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