Card Games Bucket List

Master the skills of probability and bluffing

Master the skill of shuffling a deck of cards, including techniques like the riffle shuffle or overhand shuffle.

Master deck of card magic tricks

Design and create your own card game, from concept to playable deck

The card game every family argues about the house rules for.

Build an ancient civilization through card drafting

Every two cards share exactly one symbol; find it before anyone else.

A Spanish card game for two to six: assemble four healthy organs in front of you while infecting everyone else with viruses, in about twenty minutes.

Expedition card runs where starting one you cannot finish is the whole game.

Play your cards in ascending order without speaking. Somehow it works.

The two-player rebuild of 7 Wonders, tighter than the original.

The first collectible card game, and still the deepest.

The two-player co-operative version of the word-association hit.

A tiny, tense game of deduction (2012).

The original deck-building card game (2008).

Compete or spectate at the official Pokémon World Championship tournament for video games and trading card games.

Collect gems and build your jewelry empire

Fifty co-operative trick-taking missions, played almost entirely in silence.

Six beer mats and the purest bluffing game ever designed.

Two hundred years of pegging fifteen-twos on a wooden board.

Simultaneous role selection and an icon language you learn in one game.

Give your team a clue their opponents cannot decode; over three rounds.

Avoid the tricks, or take them all: the classic shedding game.

A two-player space deck-builder that fits in a jacket pocket.

Card drafting so light you can teach it in ninety seconds.

Germany's national card game; three players, complex bidding, deep strategy.

Ten ages of technology in cards, with combos that rewrite the rules mid-game.

A two-player market duel of camels, commodities and bonus tokens.

Fill in the blank as offensively as the deck allows.

A card game where you can see everyone's hand but your own.