Ultimate Book of Card Games: The Comprehensive Guide to More Than 350 Games (91 page)

YOUNGER HAND:
The last player to bid or play a card, often the dealer.

200

24-Card Euchre

25-Card Euchre

28

31

400

7-27

8-5-3

9-5-2

10-4 Good Buddy

1,000

A
ccordion

Aces Up

Acey Deucy

Ace-Six Lowball

Agurk

Alhambra

Alkort

Amazons

Anaconda

Anaconda Roll’em

Archway

Auction Boodle

Auction Bridge

Auction Forty-Five

Auld Lang Syne

Authors

B
abette

Baccarat

Back Alley

Bagudi

Baker’s Dozen

Barbu

Baroness

Baseball

Beggar Your Neighbor

Belly Wound

Between the Sheets

Bezique (Two-Hand)

Big Ben

Big Three

Big Two

Biscuits & Gravy

Black Hole

Black Mariah

Blackjack

Blockade

Bloody Sevens

Bolivia Canasta

Boodle

Brazilian Canasta

Bridge

Briscola

Briscola Bastarda

British Whist

Bullshit

Bura

Busca

Bush League

Butcher Boy

C
alculation

Call-Ace Euchre

Call Partner Rook

Canasta

Cancellation Hearts

Canfield

Caribbean Stud

Carpet

Casino

Chemin de Fer

Chessboard

Chicago

Chicago Bridge

Cinch

Cincinnati

Cincinnati Liz

Cincinnati Low Ball

Cinco de Mayo

Clock

Concentration

Congress

Continental Rummy

Contract Rummy

Cowpie

Crazy Eights

Crazy Quilt

Crescent

Cribbage

Cribbage 1/11

Cribbage Solitaire

Cruel

Cuarenta

Cutthroat 400

Cutthroat 1,000

Cutthroat Bridge

Cutthroat Spite and Malice

D
akota

Decade

Deuces

Deuces Diablo

Deuce-Seven Lowball

Diplomat

Dirty Schultz

Double Golf

Double Klondike

Draw Casino

Duchess

Duplicate Bridge

E
gyptian Ratscrew

Eight-Card Stud

Eight-Deck Bezique

Eight Off

English Stud

Euchre

F
an Tan

Fifty-Five

Five-Hand Five Hundred

Five Hundred

Five-Card Brag

Five-Card Draw

Five-Card Stud

Five Stud High-Low

Flower Garden

Follow the Queen

Follow the Whore

Football

Fortress

Forty-Five

Forty Thieves

Four Flush

Four-Card Brag

Four-Hand Bezique

Four-Hand Big Three

Four-Hand Briscola

Four-Hand Casino

Four-Hand Cuarenta

Four-Hand Cribbage

Four-Hand Gin Rummy

Four-Hand Pinochle

Four Seasons

G
ate

Gaps

German Patience

Ghost

Gin Rummy

Go Fish!

Golf

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Grand Duchess

Grandfather

Grandfathers Clock

Guts

H
-Bomb

Hand

Hand & Foot Canasta

Hasenpfeffer Euchre

Have a Heart

Hearts

Heinz

Henway

High-Low/8

High-Low Cojones

Hot Dang!

Honeymoon Bridge

Honors Whist

Howdy Doody

I
ndian Poker

Intelligence

Interregnum

Intrigue

Iron Cross

J
ack of Diamonds

Jacks to Open

Jacks to Open, Trips to Win

Joker Canasta

Jubilee

K
ing Albert

King Pedro

Klaberjass

Klondike

Knock Poker

Koon Kan

L
a Belle Lucie

La Parisienne

La Croix d’Honneur

Labyrinth

Laggard Lady

Leoni’s Own

Let It Ride

Low-of-a-Kind

Lowball

M
artha

Maze

Merry-go-Round

Mexican Stud

Mexican Sweat

Mexicana Canasta

Mini-Baccarat

Miss Milligan

Mississippi Stud

Monte Carlo

Mount Olympus

Mrs. Mop

Multiplayer Spite and Malice

Multiplayer War

N
apoleon

Napoleon’s Square

Nestor

Nine-Card Brag

Ninety-one

No Limit Texas Hold’em

No-Peekie Baseball

No Weenies

O
ctave

Oh Hell

Oklahoma Canasta

Oklahoma Gin

Old Maid

Omaha

One-Eyed Jacks and Suicide King

Osmosis

P
ai Gow

Palace

Panguingue

Parallels

Partnership Five Hundred

Partnership Hearts

Partnership Klaberjass

Partnership Seven Up

Pass the Trash

Patriarchs

Pedro

Peg Leg

Persian Patience

Pig

Piggly Wiggly

Pineapple

Pinochle

Piquet

Pisti

Pitch

Poker Solitaire

Polish

Pot Limit Texas Hold’em

Pounce

President & Pond Scum

The Price Is Right

Psycho Shelby

Puss in the Corner

Pyramid

Q
ueen of Italy

R
ainout Baseball

Razz

Razzmatazz

Red and Black

Reverse Cribbage

Ride the Bus

Rook

Royal Casino

Royal Cotillion

Royal Marriage

Rubicon Bezique

Rubicon Piquet

Rummy

Rummy 11

Rummy Five Hundred

Russian Bank

S
alic Rule

Samba Canasta

Schafkopf

Scopa

Scorpion

Screw Your Neighbor

Setback

Seven-Card Brag

Seven-Card Stud

Seven Devils

Seven Up

Shamrocks

Shelby

Sheep Shagger

Shoot the Moon

Shotgun Poker

Simple Simon

Single-Deck Windmill

Sir Tommy

Six-Card Brag

Six-Card Stud

Six-Hand Euchre

Six-Hand Spades

Six-Pack Bezique

Sixty-Six

Skat

Skinny Minnie

Slapjack

Snap

Spade Casino

Spades

Spider

Spiderette

Spit in the Ocean

Spite & Malice

Spoons

Spot Hearts

St. Helena

St. Valentine’s Day Massacre

Stalactites

Stonewall

Sultan

T
abletop Cribbage

Tam O’Shanter

Teen Pathi

Tennessee Guts

Texas Hold’em

Thirteen-Card Brag

Three-Card Brag

Three-Hand Bezique

Three-Hand Big Two

Three-Hand Casino

Three-Hand Canasta

Three-Hand Cribbage

Three-Hand Euchre

Three-Hand Gin Rummy

Three-Hand Klaberjass

Three-Hand Pinochle

Three-Player 28

Three-Hand Spades

Tien Len

Toepen

Tonk Rummy

Tourney

Tower of Hanoi

Tri Peaks

Twenty Down

Twenty-Five

Two-Hand Canasta

Two-Hand Five Hundred

Two-Hand Pisti

U
p the River, Down the River

W
ar

Westcliff

Whiskey Poker

Whist

Windmill

Woolworth

Y
ukon

Z
odiac

SCOTT MCNEELY
is the author of Poker Night: All You Need to Bet, Bluff & Win and Casino Night: All You Need to Bring the Tables Home (both from Chronicle Books). His writing has appeared in numerous magazines, Web sites, and travel guidebooks. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

ARTHUR MOUNT
is an illustrator whose work has appeared in publications around the world. His clients include The New York Times, Sunset Magazine, and Google. He lives in Portland, Oregon.