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If my classification of card games by mechanism was perfect, there would perhaps be no games in this category. In practice it is inevitable that games will show up which do not fit into a pre-existing scheme. Traditional games which do not seem to fit elsewhere will be collected here, in the hope that it will eventually become clear how they can best be incorporated into existing or new groups of games.

• Poker Bull, a game of bluff.
• Speculation, a 19th century auction and trading game.
• Pegs and Jokers, a race game in which cards are played to move pegs around a board.
• Pelmanism, a memory game in which players match pairs of cards.

I include here a couple of activities which are not really games at all in the usual sense:

• Three Card Monte (also known as "Find the Lady" or "Bonneteau")
• 52 Card Pickup

People who invent new card games using traditional or special cards sometimes deliberately strive for originality, creating new types of game mechanism. These games will be found in other parts of the web site:

• The Invented Games section is for games played with various types of traditional cards.
• The Commercial Games section is for propietory games that require a special pack of cards made specially for that game.