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IN THIS CHAPTER

Speaking card game lingo

Following the rules and etiquette of card games

Hand-picking the best card game

I’m sure that if you’ve ever played cards at all, you don’t need me to explain what fun 52 pieces of pasteboard can be. But just in case, here goes …

Because you don’t know what the other players have in their hands in almost every card game, playing cards combines the opportunity for strategy, bluffing, memory, and cunning. At the same time, you don’t have to play cards all that well in order to enjoy yourself. Cards allow you to make friends with the people you play with and against. A deck of cards opens up a pastime where the ability to communicate is often of paramount importance, and you get to meet new faces and talk to them without having to make the effort to do so.

If you want to take the plunge and start playing cards, you encounter a bewildering range of options to choose from. Cards have been played in Europe for the last 800 years (see the sidebar “Card Games Through the Ages” for more details), and as a result, you have plenty of new games to test out and new rules to add to existing games.

One of the features of Card Games For Dummies, 3rd Edition, is the diversity of card games covered in it. I can’t hope to list all the rules of every card game within the chapters, so this chapter discusses the general rules that apply to most card games. Get these basics under your belt so you can jump in to any of the games I describe in detail later in the book.