Card and Domino Games - Websites with Rules and Information

• David Parlett has published a collection of rules for Historic Card Games.
• The Medieval and Renaissance games site has information about the history of card games and publishes reconstructions of early card games.
• The Card Games section of Braingle has a collection of card games organised by popularity, complexity and number of players. Visitors can rate the games and contribute comments.
• The Game Cabinet covers all kinds of games, and includes rules or reviews of some card games and some games played with dominoes.
• The White Knuckle Cards site has rules for several Australian and other card games.
• Wikipedia now has quite a large collection of card game rules, to which readers can contribute.
• Cats at Cards has a collection of rules for card games, mostly North American, with some useful general information and a glossary.
• GameRules.com has rules for a growing selection of popular card games.
• Paul Dunlop's Cool Old Games site has rules for a selection of tile, card and board games.
• Card Game Heaven provides a collection of rules of card games for one or more players.
• Archive copy of Bill Whitnack's Rules for Card Games site describing several games played in Canada.
• This archive copy of Mike Develin's The Ten Best Card Games You Never Heard Of has rules for versions of several lesser known games.
• Cheryle Kaus's website 52pickup.net has a collection of card game rules including several Canadian games.
• Z. Teun Spaan's Domino Plaza has a large collection of rules of games played with dominoes.
• Here are several sites specialising in drinking games:
  • The Alcohol Stuff web site has a collection of drinking games, including some card games.
  • Another collection of drinking card games can be found at the Student Drinking Games site (archive copy).
  • The Real Beer Page (archive copy) had a collection rules for about 50 drinking card games.
  • PinkyMcDrinky provides rules for several drinking games including some card games.
• John Hay's Rule Book is a collection of current rules of American card games compiled from surveys over the Internet.
• Denexa, a manufacturer of plastic playing-cards, has published a selection of card game rules.
• Archive copy of Jim Buckley's Playing Cards and Games for Fun which has rules for several British card games.
• Here is an archive copy of Dave Barker's House of Cards with rules of several card games.
• Jack O Spades' Card Gamer's Alley (archive copy) provided another selection of card game rules.
• Here is an archive copy of Brad Wilson's Card Games pages, which had descriptions of several North American games.
• Nicholas Cheung's Card Games Home Page (archive copy) with yet another selection
• Ola Sassersson's Vingel 8 website has rules for several card games.
• C. Scott Davis's Card Games page (archive copy) had a collection of card games to play with 5-suited and 6-suited decks.
• EndersGame's 40+ Great Card Games For All Occasions provides short reviews and recommendations.
• Rick Heli maintains a page of Card Games of the Donauschwaben in 18th and 19th-century Hungary
• Eric Ball's Card Game Rules PDF explains Greek Prefa and several related and unrelated games, some traditional and some modified, mostly played with a 32-card deck.
• Jean-François Bustarret's Jeux de Cartes site has rules of card games in French.
• Philippe Lalanne's L'Académie des Jeux Oubliés (Le Salon des Jeux) has thorough descriptions in French of many old games, including card games.
• L'Ange Heureux has a collection rules of lesser known card games in French.
• The Italian site tretre.it included a library - Biblioteca del tre - with reproductions of several early Italian descriptions of card games.
• The Acanomas site, based in Argentina, has information in Spanish about all kinds of traditional games, including rules of many card games.
• Ludoteka has rules in Spanish for several Spanish card games, as well as dice games and board games.
• This archive copy of the Jogos de Cartas web site has information in Portuguese, mostly on Brazilian card games and playing-cards.
• Dmitry Lesnoy's Russian language encyclopedia of games Игорный Дом is available online.
• The library of Alexander Konyukhov's Dudun site has rules in Russian for a wide range of card games.
• Cristian Seres' site Korttipelien sääntöjä ja Internet-linkkejä (archive copy) had rules of Finnish and other card games in Finnish.
• Mikko Saari's Finnish language web site Korttipeliopas has card game rules and information.
• The Kártyajátékok section of Antal Jánoska's site Szerencsés Kártyajárást has rules of card games in Hungarian: English and German translations are planned.
• The Spilareglur website (archive copy) had rules for a selection of card games in Icelandic.
• Rolands Spiele provides comprehensive descriptions in German of Gin Rummy, Viennese Canasta, Écarté and partnership dominoes.
• kartenspiele.net (archive copy) included a collection of German card game rules, as well as software and some information on card tricks.
• Yuki Akagiri's Cardgame Farm has rules for various (mostly western) card games in Japanese.
• The Dutch page cardgames.startpagina.nl has a collection of links to other card game related sites.
• The Card Games section of the Board Game Geek site lists a large number of card games, mainly commercial (proprietary) games, and gives reviews and publication details.
• The Big Game Hunter is a site devoted to the history of the games industry in the USA and includes many photographs of proprietary card and board games.
• The Association for Games and Puzzles International maintains, among other things, an archive containing instructions old proprietary board and card games from the USA - photocopies can be ordered for a small charge.
• Links to other sites with information about specific games can be found under the relevant game. Use the alphabetical index to find the game.