A game similar to blackjack {baccarat} can use two tables {baccarat banque} and can use a bank {punto banco} {North American baccarat}.
Starting with two cards, people try to obtain 21 or less and be higher than other players, by optionally drawing cards {blackjack, cards} {twenty-one}.
In bridge-like games {bridge, card game}, such as contract bridge, players try to win rounds of played cards {trick}, with highest card or with a card from a designated suit {trump}. Bridge had an earlier form {whist} in 1900's.
Rummy {canasta} can use two card decks.
baccarat {chemin de fer}.
Boards {cribbage} can have peg holes, filled according to cards, for keeping score.
Card decks {deck} have 52 cards: 13 black clubs, 13 red diamonds, 13 red hearts, and 13 black spades {suit, cards}. 13-card suits have 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, jack J, queen Q, king K, and ace A, from lowest to highest. Jack, queen, and king {face card} show persons. Jack of spades and jack of hearts are one-eyed. A deck can have two cards with a joker image.
Rummy {euchre} can use deck highest 32 cards.
Players can take cards from a box and bet {faro}.
Rummy {hearts} can use hearts suit as trumps.
Rummy {pinochle} can have 2 to 4 people and use 48 cards.
Strength, from lowest to highest, is highest card, two of kind, three of kind, four of kind, five of kind including wild card, five cards in sequence {straight, poker}, five cards in same suit {flush, poker}, five cards of same suit in sequence {straight flush}, and straight flush with ace high {royal flush} {poker}. Poker {draw poker} can deal substitute cards from deck. Poker {stud poker} can show some cards and conceal others, dealt in front of players.
In rummy-type games {rummy}, such as gin rummy, players try to acquire three same-value cards or three same-suit sequential cards {meld}, by drawing from a card pile {talon, cards}.
People can play card-sequence games {solitaire} {patience} by themselves.
two card {deuce, card}.
three card {trey}.
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