These often vary from group to group, so anyone joining an unfamiliar group of players would be wise to check on the rules in play, especially if the stakes are significant, to avoid unpleasant surprises later. Most games are governed by house rules which are agreed by the group of players taking part in the game. The vast majority of games do not have official rules, in the sense that some body has laid down authoritative rules accepted by all players. Where can I find the official rules for the game zzzzz? To play “according to Hoyle” means to play correctly-by the book. Hoyle’s name is used, especially in the USA, to suggest (often quite spuriously) that the book bearing it gives authoritative rules for games. This continues to this day, though the books no longer have any connection with Hoyle’s original works and contain mostly games which Hoyle could never have heard of. These books were widely pirated and plagiarised, and after his death the name of Hoyle came to be attached to compendiums of games from a wide variety of publishers and authors.
Rules of Games Playing Games Who was Hoyle?Įdmond Hoyle, who died in London in 1769, wrote a highly successful Short Treatise on the Game of Whist, containing the laws of the game and also some Rules whereby a Beginner may, with due attention to them, attain to the Playing it well… He followed this with similar treatises on other games: Backgammon, Piquet, Quadrille and Chess. What games are usually played with them?įor many types of cards, this question is answered on the national and regional card games page of the card games site. The standard reference on this is Michael Dummett‘s book The Game of Tarot (Duckworth 1980). See the Tarot section in the card games site. What card games are played in xxxxx country or region?įor some countries, this question is answered on the national and regional card games page of the card games site. The earliest known games with trumps are Karnöffel and Tarot (which was originally known as Trionfi). Trumps were introduced in the fifteenth century. It seems likely that the earliest European card games included trick taking games without trumps and hand comparison games. We can therefore only rely on fragmentary references, and reconstructions based on later games.
#LIST OF CARD GAMES HOW TO#
Although a few packs of very early playing-cards survive there is practically no European literature giving detailed descriptions of how to play any card games before the 17th century, some 250 years after their introduction into Europe. In fact the situation is more uncertain for the games than for the cards they were played with. What were the earliest card games?Īs with questions about the origins of playing cards, this question cannot be answered with certainty.
Depending on what you count as a game, a rough estimate would be that there are between 1,000 and 10,000 games.Īn classification of the main types of card games can be found on the classified index page of the Card Games site. It is also common to find the same game going under many different names. It depends what you count as different-what you might see as two different games, I might count as two variations of the same game. This has been reprinted by the same publisher, without illustrations, under the title A History of Card Games. The best general reference on this is David’s Parlett‘s book The Oxford Guide to Card Games (Oxford University Press 1990). History, Types and Distribution of Card Games
Answers to several of the following questions can be found on the Card Games site, which is edited by John McLeod.
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