| card game | | |
| n. (act) | 1. card game, cards | a game played with playing cards. |
| ~ discard | (cards) the act of throwing out a useless card or of failing to follow suit. |
| ~ discard | (cards) the act of throwing out a useless card or of failing to follow suit. |
| ~ shuffle, make, shuffling | the act of mixing cards haphazardly. |
| ~ reshuffling, reshuffle | shuffling again.; "the gambler demanded a reshuffle" |
| ~ game | a contest with rules to determine a winner.; "you need four people to play this game" |
| ~ cutting, cut | the division of a deck of cards before dealing.; "he insisted that we give him the last cut before every deal"; "the cutting of the cards soon became a ritual" |
| ~ 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 | a gambling game using cards; the object is to hold cards having a higher count than those dealt to the banker up to but not exceeding 21. |
| ~ 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 | a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card. |
| ~ 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 | a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards. |
| ~ patience, solitaire | a card game played by one person. |
| ~ 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 distributing playing cards.; "the deal was passed around the table clockwise" |
| ~ deal | the act of distributing playing cards.; "the deal was passed around the table clockwise" |
| ~ 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. |
| ~ trumping, ruff | (card games) the act of taking a trick with a trump when unable to follow suit. |
| ~ trick | (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner. |
| ~ shoe | (card games) a case from which playing cards are dealt one at a time. |
| ~ trump | (card games) the suit that has been declared to rank above all other suits for the duration of the hand.; "clubs were declared trumps"; "a trump can take a trick even when a card of a different suit is led" |
| ~ call | a demand for a show of hands in a card game.; "after two raises there was a call" |
| ~ book | a collection of playing cards satisfying the rules of a card game. |
| ~ revoke | fail to follow suit when able and required to do so. |
| ~ unblock | play the cards of (a suit) so that the last trick on which a hand can follow suit will be taken by a higher card in the hand of a partner who has the remaining cards of a combined holding. |
| ~ bluff, bluff out | deceive an opponent by a bold bet on an inferior hand with the result that the opponent withdraws a winning hand. |
| ~ ruff, trump | play a trump. |
| ~ overtrump | play a trump higher than (one previously played) to the trick. |
| ~ crossruff | trump alternately in two hands. |
| ~ exit | lose the lead. |
| ~ skunk, lurch | defeat by a lurch. |
| ~ ante | place one's stake. |
| ~ underplay | play a card lower than (a held high card). |
| ~ check | decline to initiate betting. |
| ~ pitch | lead (a card) and establish the trump suit. |
| ~ cover | play a higher card than the one previously played.; "Smith covered again" |
| ~ raise | bet more than the previous player. |
| ~ see | match or meet.; "I saw the bet of one of my fellow players" |
| ~ reshuffle | shuffle again.; "So as to prevent cheating, he was asked to reshuffle the cards" |
| ~ riffle | shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix. |
| ~ deal | distribute cards to the players in a game.; "Who's dealing?" |
| ~ deal | give (a specific card) to a player.; "He dealt me the Queen of Spades" |
| ~ misdeal | deal cards wrongly. |
| ~ bid, call | make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands.; "He called his trump" |
| ~ fourhanded | (of card games) involving or requiring four players. |
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