Definition of card game Card game
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| card game - a game played with playing cards | ||
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| game an amusement or pastime; "they played word games"; "he thought of his painting as a game that filled his empty time"; "his life was all fun and games" | ||
| discard getting rid something that is regarded as useless or undesirable | ||
| make, shuffle, shuffling the act of mixing cards haphazardly | ||
| cutting, cut the act of diluting something; "the cutting of whiskey with water"; "the thinning of paint with turpentine" | ||
| all fours, high-low-jack card games in which points are won for taking the high or low or jack or game | ||
| baccarat, chemin de fer a card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker; the player wins who holds 2 or 3 cards that total closest to nine | ||
| beggar-my-neighbor, beggar-my-neighbour, strip-jack-naked a card game for two players in which the object is to win all of the other player's cards | ||
| vingt-et-un, twenty-one, blackjack the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty and one | ||
| bridge any of various card games based on whist for four players | ||
| cassino, casino a card game in which cards face up on the table are taken with eligible cards in the hand | ||
| cribbage, crib a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two | ||
| ecarte a card game for 2 players; played with 32 cards and king high | ||
| euchre, five hundred a card game similar to ecarte; each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand | ||
| sevens, fantan, parliament a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards | ||
| faro a card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box | ||
| go fish a card game for two players who try to assemble books of cards by asking the opponent for particular cards | ||
| four-card monte, monte, three-card monte a gambling card game of Spanish origin; 3 or 4 cards are dealt face up and players bet that one of them will be matched before the others as the cards are dealt from the pack one at a time | ||
| stops, boodle, chicago, newmarket, michigan informal terms for money | ||
| napoleon, nap a card game similar to whist; usually played for stakes | ||
| old maid a card game using a pack of cards from which one queen has been removed; players match cards and the player holding the unmatched queen at the end of the game is the loser (or `old maid') | ||
| bezique, penuchle, pinochle, pinocle a card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist | ||
| piquet a card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards | ||
| pisha paysha (Yiddish) a card game for two players one of whom is usually a child; the deck is place face down with one card face upward; players draw from the deck alternately hoping to build up or down from the open card; the player with the fewest cards when the deck is exhausted is the winner | ||
| poker game, poker any of various card games in which players bet that they hold the highest-ranking hand | ||
| rouge et noir, trente-et-quarante a card game in which two rows of cards are dealt and players can bet on the color of the cards or on which row will have a count nearer some number | ||
| rum, rummy liquor distilled from fermented molasses | ||
| patience, solitaire good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence | ||
| long whist, short whist, whist a card game for four players who form two partnerships; a pack of 52 cards is dealt and each side scores one point for each trick it takes in excess of six | ||
| doubling, double raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2; "I decided his double was a bluff" | ||
| deal the act of apportioning or distributing something; "the captain was entrusted with the deal of provisions" | ||
| lead the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge; "the lead was in the dummy" | ||
| renege, revoke the mistake of not following suit when able to do so | ||
| call (sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee; "he was ejected for protesting the call" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- card game (Noun)
Any of very many games played with playing card s.
