List of dedicated deck card games
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This is a list of notable card "dedicated deck" games, which use neither standard playing cards nor collectible trading cards.
Name | Description | Originally Published |
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Authors | A matching game. | 1861 |
Black Peter (card game) | A matching and shedding game. | circa 1840 |
Bottle Imp | A trick-taking game. | 1995 |
Card Football Premiere Edition | A simulation game. | 2004 |
Clue Quest | Players make words using cards. | 1987 |
Cuccù | A 40-card game in the Cuckoo group. | 18th Century |
Dominion | A deck-building game. | 2008 |
Dutch Blitz | A matching and shedding game. | 1960 |
Experiment | A matching game. | 2006 |
Flinch | A matching and shedding game. | 1901 |
Fluxx | A multi-genre matching game notable for victory conditions changing throughout the game. | 1997 |
Glory to Rome | A card game where each card can be used in several ways. | 2005 |
Gnav | A 42-card or men game in the Cuckoo group. | 1820s |
Great Dalmuti | A variant of Asshole. | 1995 |
Haggis | A trick-taking game. | 2010 |
Happy Families | A matching game. | circa 1851 |
Kille (card game) | A 42-card game in the Cuckoo group. | 18th Century |
Kvitlech | A 24-card comparing game | Late 18th or 19th Century |
Lexicon | A word and shedding card game. | 1932 |
Lindy | A specialty or multi-genre card game published by Parker Brothers in 1927, in honor of the solo transatlantic flight of Charles Lindbergh. The game was styled as "A Sequel to the Famous Parker Game Touring," with airplane flight as the theme rather than automobile travel. A similar game was marketed by Nucraft Toys as The Lindy Flying Game, also in 1927, which became the focus of a lawsuit filed by Parker Brothers.[1] | 1927 |
Love Letter | 16 card deck. | 2012 |
The Make My Day Card Game | A political satire game.[2] | 1987 |
Monopoly Deal | A derivation of the board game. | 2008 |
Make-A-Million | A trick-taking game. | 1934 |
Mille Bornes | A specialty or multi-genre game. | 1954 |
Munchkin | A humorous, simplified RPG. | 2001 |
Old Maid | The Game of Old Maid (Parker Brothers, 1880s), also known as Matrimony (McLoughlin Brothers, 1890s), The Merry Game of Old Maid (McLoughlin Brothers, 1898), and others, was originally a dedicated-deck game; a matching and shedding game. | 19th Century |
Phase 10 | A matching and shedding game. | 1982 |
Pit | A matching game. | 1904 |
Quartets | A matching game. | 1960s |
Rack-O | A Milton Bradley sequential-matching game. A hand is won by the player to acquire first a series of ten cards in numeric order and call "Rack-O!" The game is now marketed by Winning Moves Games. | 1956 |
Rage | A trick-taking game. | 1983 |
Renfield | A trick-taking game. | 1999 |
Rook | A trick-taking game. | 1906 |
Tichu | A trick-taking game. | 1991 |
Top Trumps | A data comparison game. | 1978 |
Touring | A specialty or multi-genre game. | 1906 |
Uno | A shedding game. | 1971 |
Vogelspiel | A 32-card game in the Cuckoo group. | 18th Century |
Waterworks | A matching game from Parker Brothers, the object of which is for each player to create a pipeline of a designated length, beginning with a valve and ending with a spout. The game is now sold by Winning Moves Games. | 1972 |
Wizard | A trick-taking game. | 1984 |
References
[edit]- ^ "Lindy, The New Flying Game". Board Game Geek. BoardGameGeek, LLC. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
- ^ "Capsule Reviews - RPGnet RPG Game Index".