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  Invented card game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
An invented card game is a non-commercial card game developed by a solitary inventor or organization.
Card games are classified into three categories, according to their origin and process of evolution.
Most in the gaming community find that the stigma of the invented card game is unfair: There are many high-quality invented card games, some of which even attain canonical status (FreeCell, Five Hundred, Bridge) because of their enjoyable play.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Invented_card_game.html   (701 words)

  
 Cards
Card Memory This is a solitaire game in cards and it is one type of memory test game.
Game of Bridge This FREE program was written by one of the top bridge software authors and is brought to you by the American Contract Bridge League, the largest bridge organization in the world and its Educational Foundation.
Cards Memory This is a card game, in which you need to open as many cards as you want to get the total score of 21.
www.mnsi.net /~jhlavac/games/cards.htm   (3297 words)

  
 Developers Publishers Card Games Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Asylum the Game - Original game using rules and strategies from other card games such as Bridge, Spades and Oh Hell.
Invented Card Games - Rules for a number of recently invented card games.
Tredici - The rules to an invented game in which players try to collect all the cards of one suit before the others.
www.24up.org /Games/Card_Games/Developers_and_Publishers   (199 words)

  
 Invented Card Games
This game by Ren Petrone is related to the traditional British game of Black Maria, with penalty scores for the ace, king and queen of spades.
A game by James Banks, in which the aim is to be the first to have your monster "eat" a row of cards in front of you, representing cookies.
A draw domino game by Bill Perkins, which is won either by playing all of your dominoes or by playing a particular double, designated as the 'wild' double; also a variation Willynilly in which the double blank is 'wild'.
www.pagat.com /invented   (9458 words)

  
 Directory - Games: Card Games: Developers and Publishers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Joker High  · cached · Rules for the game invented by Michael Lawson.
Invented Card Games  · cached · Rules for a number of recently invented card games.
Tredici  · cached · The rules to an invented game in which players try to collect all the cards of one suit before the others.
www.incywincy.com /default?p=142749   (177 words)

  
 Card Games | Gamegrene.com
Card gaming, in its current incarnation, is fairly new, having only been born in 1993 and exploding since.
Since designing a card game is much cheaper than a board game or an RPG (way less production costs) and many of them are spin-offs of an existing license anyway, it's faster and cheaper to get them to market; which means lots of companies have dived in with both feet.
The game is called 1000 Blank White Cards (or 1KBWC).
www.gamegrene.com /taxonomy/term/47   (512 words)

  
 Open Directory - Games
Games are also usually competitive, typically involving players competing either against each other, against one or more simulated players, or against tasks set by the rules of the game.
Occasionally Board Game variants of the pencil and paper game are published, where the basic elements are pre-formed or preprinted.
Although characters and plots are driven largely by the imagination of the participants, game rules are used to resolve the results of dramatic conflicts, providing the games with a necessary element of suspense.
www.myseo.org /Games/desc.html   (1523 words)

  
 Games by John Cooper
It is probably one of the most emotion-filled games I play, which is interesting, given that at its heart Gnostica is a humble abstract strategy game.
Each card is worth the value of the top matching suit card in the center of the table.
Ouija Dancing is a game (or a dance) invented by Ginohn, and is for 1 to 13 dancers.
wunderland.com /WTS/Ginohn/games   (1050 words)

  
 Asian Games: The Art of Contest
The principal categories of Chinese pai games are games of the money-suit system (including mahjong), games of the domino system, and a large and richly varied category including everything from drinking to poetry cards.
Whether or not the invention of playing cards was in some way inspired by Chinese paper currency, it is certainly true that one of the oldest and most important categories of Chinese playing cards is the money-suit system, in which different denominations of Chinese currency were used for the suits.
Surprisingly, cards were not used for fortune telling, as they were in the West, although the thirty-two-piece domino set was used for this purpose.
www.asiasociety.org /arts/asiangames/match01.html   (386 words)

  
 Card Games
Index of games arranged by country where they are played, and the types of cards they are played with.
Links to sources of card games software, places to play cards online, other collections of card game rules, information about playing-cards, sources of cards and equipment, books, discussion groups, gambling and casinos and other resources.
For public discussion of card games you can use the newsgroup rec.games.playing-cards, which is also accessible on the web through Google, or the web-based forums at Cardschat.
www.pagat.com   (272 words)

  
 Open Directory - Games:Card Games:Shedding and Accumulating   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Submit sites about invented card games to the Developers and Publishers subcategory.
Sites devoted to card games where the objective is either to get rid of all your cards or accumulate all the cards.
Mao is a game where the winner of one round makes up a new rule for the next round.
dmoz.org /Games/Card_Games/Shedding_and_Accumulating/desc.html   (92 words)

  
 Leonard's Bits of Stuff Homepage - Assortment of Card and Dice Games
The card games are all foreign imports from Germany.
Likewise the dice games are all unusual, but again they are fun to play and use regular 6-sided dice.
Everyone knows about traditional card games, like Poker, Hearts, etc. Here are some interesting card games that use a regular deck of cards, but in innovative ways.
www.geocities.com /quetl/games.htm   (533 words)

  
 DerKeiler Directory - /Games/Card_Games/Developers_and_Publishers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Rules of an extensive number of recently invented card games.
Exact bidding game where players lay aside three cards from their hand representing their secret bid, and play the remaining nine cards to tricks.
The rules to an invented game in which players try to collect all the cards of one suit before the others.
directory.derkeiler.com /Top/Games/Card_Games/Developers_and_Publishers   (196 words)

  
 Joker Poker- Poker Resource for the Home Player
We were unable to play many of the stud games we wanted so I made a point to search for poker games that allowed more than 7 people.
Some of the games included are ones created/invented by the "home" poker player so the names of them are rather obscure or ambiguous.
If you come across a game you are familiar with and my rules are way off base please clarify in detail what needs to be corrected.
www.freewebs.com /jokerpoker   (544 words)

  
 Card games - Answerbag FAQ
A card game played usually with the highest 32 cards, in which each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making the trump is required to take at least 3 tricks to win.
Relsqui: Yes, but it's also a card game in and of itself, which might have been what was referred to.
Some scholars indicate that playing cards were invented about 1000 A.D. in China or Korea, and they may have evolved from a set of Chinese dominoes similar to the 19th century set.
www.answerbag.com /c_view.php/603   (1194 words)

  
 Zelda Universe Forums - Card Games
If two cards are laid down and equal to 13, like a Jack and a 2 or an Ace and a queen, or a king, then a hand war starts.
Everyone may now look at the 10 cards and look for pairs that equal to 13, or kings, when a pair or a king is found it is laid down as proof.
02-20-2005 07:03 AM I've never made up my own card game though my friends made up one called Jazze the objective was to take your clothes off and put them back on the person with the higher cards (Ace, Jack, Queen, King)is entitled to put on two items of clothing.
www.zeldauniverse.net /forums/printthread.php?t=17577   (375 words)

  
 Card Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
My favorite card games include King's Breakfast, Five Crowns, Golf (the card game), Apples to Apples, Attribute, and Saskachewan Rummy.
They are made by Cardinal Industries and come with instructions for 6 multiplayer games and 12 solitaire games.
There are 94 cards in the deck which is equivalent to a double 12 tile set of dominos.
raeside.home.mchsi.com /cards.htm   (473 words)

  
 Invented Card Games
The picture cards represent slaves and players use the pip cards ace to ten to bid for them.
Cards which match cards in the previous group force the following player to pick up.
Players try to guess whether cards in their hand are higher or lower than cards face down on the table.
www.pagat.com /invented/index.html   (9458 words)

  
 Robert Abbott’s Games
About three-fourths of the way down the page is a picture frame with cards showing a layout from Eleusis, and you are asked to determine the rule that would produce the layout.
The only way to buy a Kadon game is through their web site or directly from Kate at one of the shows she attends.
And instead of the four suits of standard cards, these cards are divided into three suit-like categories, making it hard to create rules that combine these three-value suits with other variables that have only two values.
www.logicmazes.com /games   (1086 words)

  
 Trick Capturing - Card Games : Mad Poker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Card Games: Exact bidding group Card Games: Exact Bidding Group In these trick taking games the object is to win exactly the number of tricks that you bid.
Card Games: Last Trick Group Card Games: Last Trick Group These are where the whole or main object is focussed on the last trick.
In the following games an objective is to win the last trick: There are also games where the object is to avoid winning the last trick.
www.madpoker.biz /dir/Card_Games/Trick_Capturing   (333 words)

  
 Funagain Games: Klunker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Klunker is a fast, exciting card game for the whole family.
For example, one of the women in my group always plays every card from her hand--if she's not going to play it to her vault, she puts it in her window.
Board Game Geek is an incredible compilation of information about board and card games with many descriptions, photographs, reviews, session reports, and other commentary.
www.funagain.com /cgi-bin/funagain/06641   (736 words)

  
 Games - Card Games
invented game in which the players create their own cards and play them on one another.
rules for card games from around the world.
card game with 1 card played per person per hand.
www.ontalink.com /games/cards   (104 words)

  
 Developers and Publishers Card Games Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Site desc: Rules for a new card game, The game is allot like spades and hearts.The game can be played by all ages 9 to 99.
Site desc: Exact bidding game where players lay aside three cards from their hand representing their secret bid, and play the remaining nine cards to tricks.
Site desc: Two Way Street is an original card game with a lower luck factor than most, and no partners.
www.xmeta.com /web/142749/games/card-games/developers-and-publishers   (305 words)

  
 Open Directory - Games:Card Games
Various card games which require a special pack of cards often promoted and sold by a particular manufacturer.
These are trick-taking games in which the aim is to capture cards or avoiding capturing cards.
It may be the quantity of cards captured that is important, or it may be that some cards are more valuable than others.
dmoz.org /Games/Card_Games/desc.html   (333 words)

  
 Invented Games Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Welcome to the impressive game library of everything "unpublished." You will be amazed at the great games that were not commercially published over the years.
Some are card games that you can play instantly.
Others are board games where you create or print the board for gameplay.
raeside.home.mchsi.com /gamelibrary.htm   (116 words)

  
 Trading Card Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In 1994, nobody knew what a Trading Card Game was.
Trading card games are a little bit of the best of many
If you're not playing trading card games, you're not having as
www.hobbychest.com /trading.htm   (91 words)

  
 MetaCollection of CGI and PHP script archives and link directories   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Develops and distributes solitaire and video poker card games.
Rules for a number of recently invented card games.
Producing a series of medieval fantasy card games beginning with Armory.
www.metacollection.com /dir/Games/Card_Games/Developers_and_Publishers   (153 words)

  
 Developers and Publishers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
US Games Systems - Online catalog of playing cards, Tarot cards, and card games.
Also a museum of rare and unusual cards and games.
Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.
www.supercrawler.com /Games/Card_Games/Developers_and_Publishers   (229 words)

  
 Card Games Card Games Tip
Developer of special deck card games, including Empire of the Fist.
Overview of a variety of Australian special deck games.
Collection and general information about old games using special playing cards.
www.bigcatcat.com /pseek/Games/Card_Games   (227 words)

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