Games and Fun with Playing Cards

Here's a collection of 124 games, tricks, puzzles and stunts with cards that will provide hours of entertainment for players of all ages. 20 varieties of solitaire; old stand-bys (Go Fish, Crazy Eights, Old Maid) and lesser known games (Authors, Frogs in the Pond, Persian Pasha), and much more. Rules and instructions clearly and amusingly written.

How We Got Our Pack of Cards
Card Playing Terms and Procedures
20 Solitaires
  Canfield
  Klondike
  Elevens
  Perpetual Motion
  Even Up
  Beehive
  Gaps
  Roll Call or Talkative
  Idle Year
  Round the Clock
  Pirate Gold
  Lazy Boy
  Auld Lang Syne
  Grandfather's Clock
  Idiot's Delight
  Streets and Alleys
  Royal Marriage
  Hidden Cards
  Fifteens
  Ten of Clubs
12 Games for Two Players
  Rummy
  Two-Ten-Jack
  Fifteen
  Two-Handed Hearts
  War
  Crazy Eights
  Pounce
  Casino
  Stealing the Old Man's Bundle
  Persian Pasha
  Rolling Stone
  Gin Rummy
14 Games for Three or Four Players
  Twenty-Nine
  Stay Away
  Frogs in the Pond
  Authors
  Go Fish!
  Last In
  Donkey
  Slapjack
  Snap
  Yukon
  Hearts
  Old Maid
  Seven-Up or High-Low-Jack
  Poker
12 Games for Large Groups
  Stop-And-Go
  Snip-Snap-Snorum
  Giggle
  Spade the Gardener
  The Earl of Coventry
  My Ship Sails
  I Doubt It
  Bango
  Lottery
  Animals
  Concentration
  Michigan
24 Stunts with Cards
  Tossing Cards Into a Hat
  Magnetizing a Card
  The Five Touching Cards
  An Amusing Card Catch
  The Six-Card Lift
  The Old Army Game
  A Surprising Card Deal
  One Card Under the Other
  The Master Aim
  To Make Four Fives Equal
  The Thirty-Card Race
  The One-Two-Three Card Race
  Making a Card Invisible
  Standing a Card on Edge
  The Whispering Queen
  You Can't Lose
  Coin on Card Stunt
  Card Cross Stunt
  All In Order
  A Baffling Card Stunt
  What's On Your Mind?
  The Elevens Stunt
  Building Card Castles
  Spelling Bee
17 Magic Tricks with Cards
  Telling a Chosen Card
  The Reversed Card
  Cut the Pack
  The Lie Detector Trick
  Instantaneous Reversal
  Mystic Tappit
  Sure Way to Find a Chosen Card
  Four Ace Production
  The There Friendly Queens
  The Three-Card Answer
  A Famous Four-Ace Trick
  "The Treat "Stop!" Trick"
  Magic Card Revelation
  Instant Card Location
  Hit The Deck
  The Mahatma Marvel Card Trick
  Miracle Spot Revelation
25 Puzzles with Cards
  Changing The Rows
  The Add-to-18 Puzzle
  Three-In-A-Row
  The Sixteen-Card Puzzle
  Alternative Cards
  The Five-Kings Puzzle
  The Noble Lords and the Commoners he Commoners
  Tricky Triangle
  Face-Up
  The Star Puzzle
  The Jealous Kings
  The Hourglass Puzzle
  The Eighteen Card Circle
  A Card Brain-Twister
  How Can This Be?
  Card Pick-up Puzzle
  Turn Over All But One
  The Give-and-Take Puzzle
  Odd or Even?
  The Twenty-Four Card Puzzle
  Silly Sam's Pack of Cards
  The Reverse-Order Puzzle
  Card Leapfrog Puzzle
  Put-Them-In-Order Puzzle
  Ace-Two-Three-Four Puzzle
Solutions to Puzzles with Cards
  Changing The Rows
  The Add-to-18 Puzzle
  Three-In-A-Row
  The Sixteen-Card Puzzle
  Alternate Cards
  The Five-Kings Puzzle
  The Noble Lords and the Commoners
  Tricky Triangle
  Face-Up
  The Star Puzzle
  The Jealous Kings
  The Hourglass Puzzle
  The Eighteen Card Circle
  A Card Brain-Twister
  How Can This Be?
  Card Pick-up Puzzle
  Turn Over All But One
  The Give-and-Take Puzzle
  Odd or Even?
  Silly Sam's Pack of Cards
  The Reverse-Order Puzzle
  Card Leapfrog Puzzle
  Put-Them-In-Order Puzzle
  Ace-Two-Three-Four Puzzle
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