How to Play Card Games

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Game Night Gift Set: Western, Golf & Cocktail — $39.99

Three of our best-selling decks in one set. Enough cards for poker, a two-deck blackjack shoe, or three tables at once.

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Every game below plays with a standard deck. Pick a game, learn it in five minutes, and grab the deck we'd deal it with.

Casino and poker

  • Texas Hold'em — 2–10 players. Betting rounds, community cards, poker hand rankings.
  • Blackjack — 1–7 players vs. a dealer. Get to 21 without busting.

Trick-taking games

  • Spades — 4 players in partnerships. Bid your tricks, watch your bags.
  • Hearts — 4 players. Avoid hearts and the Queen of Spades, or shoot the moon.
  • Euchre — 4 players in partnerships. Fast, 24-card Midwest classic.

Rummy and counting games

  • Gin Rummy — 2 players. Build sets and runs, knock or go gin.
  • Cribbage — 2 players. Pegging, fifteens and the race to 121.

Family and kids' games

  • Crazy Eights — 2–7 players. Match suit or rank; eights are wild.
  • War — 2 players. The easiest game to teach.

Solo

Want to play right now? Crazy Eights, War, Solitaire and Blackjack are all playable on our Game Night page.