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Cribbage is the only classic card game that comes with its own furniture: a wooden board full of holes and four little pegs. Invented by the English poet Sir John Suckling in the 1600s, it is a two-player race to 121 points built on quick arithmetic, sharp discarding, and one of the most satisfying scoring … Read more

Rummy is not one game but a family of them, and classic rummy (sometimes called straight rummy) is the one to learn first. The idea is beautifully simple: collect cards, arrange them into matching combinations called melds, and be the first to empty your hand. It plays anywhere from two to six people and rewards … Read more

Spades is the king of American trick-taking games. Four players, two partnerships, one trump suit that never changes, and a bidding system that punishes both timidity and greed. According to the United States Playing Card Company, it ranks as the number one card game among American college students, and it has held that kind of … Read more

Go Fish is the first card game most of us ever learned, and it is still one of the best ways to teach kids how a deck of cards works. The rules take about two minutes to explain, a full game takes 15 to 30 minutes, and there is just enough memory and guessing involved … Read more