Card and tile game rules: recent additions and changes to pagat.com.
New page on the Finnish beating game Moska and its variant Turamoska. The Hungarian Dominoes page has been rewritten with details of the games traditionally played in Hungary with the 8-8 domino set. New page on the Swabian game Binokel , the German ancestor of the American game Pinochle. New page on Open Rummy , a partnership rummy game from Rajasthan, India. New page on Altbaumer , a game from…
New pages on the games Hindersche and Viersche from the German Black Forest, and for the Reunion Group to which they belong. New pages on Sancagna and Trionfetti , two games played with the Venetian 52-card pack. New page on the two-player game Chouine from the Loire valley in France. New pages on the Canadian three-player game Le Neuf (Nines) and the similar American game Clubs . New page for the…
New page on the English game Bastard Brag , in which you swap one or all three cards of your Brag hand with a hand on the table. New page on the Jass game Kláber , played by ethnic Hungarians in northern Serbia. New page on Sath-Aath (7-8), a simple Indian trick-taking game for two players. New page on the Chinese solitaire domino game Xiàng Shí Fù . New page on Brus , a Danish game of the ancient…
New page on the recently popular Chinese game Gān Dèng Yǎn (干瞪眼) in which cards and combinations can only be beaten by the next higher rank. New page on 3-2-5 (Teen-Do-Panch), a three-player game with 30 cards played in Pakistan, India and Nepal in which each player has a different quota of tricks. The Italian game Scopa now has its own page, separate from Scopone , with more variants, including…
New page on Sicilian Tarocchi with detailed rules for the game played in Mineo and Catania, and shorter descriptions of the variants from Barcellona, Tortorici, Calatafimi and Ragusa. New page on Sidi Barrani , a Swiss Jass game for four players in partnerships, based on the well-known game Schieber Jass with the addition of Bridge-like bidding. New page on the Latvian national game Zole , a…
The Online Poker section has been rewritten, and now features detailed reviews of seven major poker rooms. New page on Goita , an unusual game played in Japan with 32 chess cards. New page on the Chinese and Japanese versions of 51 , in which the aim is to collect five cards of one suit by exchanging cards. The Cuttle page has been rewritten, and now has a more comprehensive set of rules as well…
New page on the Uruguayan games Chorizo and Báciga , relatives of Escoba with additional scoring possibilities. The Mexican game Paco for up to 12 players using a 200-card Spanish deck has been added to the Conquian page. New page on the Croatian game Trijumf for four players, a relative of the Italian games Madrasso and Marianna. New page on Meksiko , a Serbian trick-taking game for 3 players.…
New page on Dappen , an enjoyable Tarok game for 6 or 7 players played in the Upper Black Forest using Cego cards. New page on Logic , a 4-player game from the West Coast of North America, in which teams try to deduce the locations of all the cards by showing cards to their partner and guessing cards held by the opponents. New page on the Dutch Jass game Kruisjassen , played in the eastern…
Over the last few months new pages have been added with selections of recommended games for two , three , four , five and six players. New page on the 5-player Chinese climbing game Big A , in which the holders of two identical Aces are partners. New page on several versions of Ramino Pokerato , Italian games combining aspects of Rummy and Poker. New page on the Sudanese fishing game Shlla'at .…
New page on Shichi Narabe , an enhanced version of Fan Tan played in Japan. New page on Kingen , the Flemish version of the compendium game King. New page on Money , a children's card game played in Jordan, Syria and Egypt. The Loo page now has rules for several historical and one current version of this game. The page on the French Swiss game Brouc now has detailed rules. The page on the Swedish…
The classified index of games can now be explored using a Network Browser which represents the games and classes as nodes connected by lines representing their relationships. New page on Cirulla , a lively variant of Scopa played in Liguria, Italy, and its relative Cirullone . New page on Baloot , a Jass game played in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. New page on Knüffeln , a descendant of the medieval…
New page on Hand , a version of Rummy that is popular in the Arab countries of the Middle East. New page on Palatinate Schafkopf - a version of Schafkopf played in the German Palatinate (Pfalz). The Palatinate version of Ramsch has been added to the Schieberamsch page. New page on the Estonian game Saskop , a relative of Schafkopf, also known as Sasku or Lambapea. New page on Giog , a trick-taking…
New page on the North Korean climbing game Sasaki or 44A, in which the holders of the two red 10's are partners and 4-4-Ace is a special combination. New page on the Portuguese and Brazilian game Bisca and its variants. New page on the Italian game Petrangola , sometimes known as 31, and its four-card variant Mambassa . New page on the Hong Kong game Sap Ng Wu (十五湖), a climbing game played with a…
New page on the Serbian and Croatian compendium game Lora and the related Hungarian game Lórum . New page on Slovak Lórum , a distant relative of the Hungarian game with the same name. The page on the domino trick-taking game Bingo has been completely rewritten. The descriptions of Jamaican Partner Dominoes and French Dominoes have been expanded and corrected. New page on the Norwegian game…
New page on the English game Bastard Brag , in which you swap one or all three cards of your Brag hand with a hand on the table. New page on the Jass game Kláber , played by ethnic Hungarians in northern Serbia. New page on Sath-Aath (7-8), a simple Indian trick-taking game for two players. New page on the Chinese solitaire domino game Xiàng Shí Fù . New page on Brus , a Danish game of the…
The Domino Games section has been reorganised with new classified index pages showing the type of game, number of players and type of set needed for each game. The page on Minchiate (also known as Germini ), the famous Florentine game played with an expanded Tarocchi pack of 97 cards, now has full rules of the classic game and tips on strategy. The page on the 62-card Bolognese Tarocchi game…
New page on the Hungarian three-player game Alsós , a hybrid of Klabberjass and Tarokk that was fashionable in the first half of the 20th century. New page on the popular game Gaigel played in Würtemberg, Germany. The Baccarat page has been rewritten and expanded with details of several versions including the famous game Chemin de Fer . New page on the Tarock game Dreierles , an ancestor of Cego…
New page on Skruuvi , a distant Finnish relative of Bridge . New page on Vint , the late 19th century Russian game from which Skruuvi involved. New page on the three-deck game Canastone , also known as Italian Canasta. The description of the 5-player Italian game Briscola Chiamata has been corrected, expanded and moved to its own page. Schembil , the 6-player Sicilian and North African Briscola…
New page on Perlaggen , a Tyrolean partnership trick-taking game with combinatons, wild cards and vying. New page on the South African Indian Jass game Thunee and the related Nigerian game Thuni . New page on the Polish game Pan . Link to rules for Hachi-Hachi (88) - the classic Japanese flower card game. The Blackjack (21) page has been completely rewritten and now includes information on…
New page on Banakil , a Rummy game played in Jordan and Palestine. New page on Handjass , a well-known Swiss Jass game. New page on Panjpar , an Afghan card game for two players made famous by Khaled Hosseini's novel 'The Kite Runner'. New page on Vändtia , the Swedish game which is probably the direct ancestor of the popular game Shithead , which was spread around the world by young backpackers…
The section on the fishing game Casino has been explanded and reorganised, with new pages on Royal Casino , Nordic Casino and African Casino . The Royal Casino page includes new sections on Casino in the Dominican Republic , the game Tuxedo played with Rook cards, and some other variants. The Nordic Casino page has detailed information on the versions of Kasino played in Sweden and Finland . New…
New page on Scala Quaranta , the popular Italian Rummy game. New page on Guàn Dàn (throwing eggs), a partnership Chinese climbing game for 4 players. New page on the popular Czech game Sedma . New page on Russian Poker , a casino game in which players can make two hands with six cards. New page on Marianna , an Italian relative of Briscola in which marriages are used to make trumps. New page on…
Two new pages on variants of the Italian game Tessette: a four-player variant Mediatore in which a partner is chosen by calling a card, and a two-player variant Spizzichino in which each player has a hand of 10 cards and two packets of 5 cards. New page on Candyman , also known as Drug Dealer, and a new group Role Games in which cards are used to assign secret identities to the players has been…
The section on the popular South American game Truco has been reorganised. There is a new page on Brazilian Truco and separate pages on Argentinean Truco and Uruguayan Truco . New page on Open Face Chinese Poker with detailed rules and variants. New page on the Punjabi game Getaway , also known as Bhabhi. New page on the Polish games Kop and Baśka played with just 16 cards. New page on Call Bridge…
New page on Băo huáng , a climbing game that has become popular in Northern China in the last few years. New page on 5000 Rummy , a popular North American rummy game with many alternative names and variants, in which the players begin with different numbers of cards, the hand size being determined by the first card dealt to the player. New page on Nomination Whist , a name used in Britain for at…
Search box added at the top right of all pages. Design and layout modified to make the site more convenient for visitors using mobile phones. New statistics page with information on the most visited pages, recently added pages, pages with a recent increase in visitors, plus editor's recommendations of games to try, with a summary on the Home Page . An RSS feed is now available on the What's New…
New page on the popular Sri Lankan game 304 . New page on the game of Tablić played in Serbia and some other countries of the former Yugoslavia. Two versions of Polish Taroki added: calling the XIX on the Czech Taroky page and calling the King on a new page. New page on the Thai game Sam Sip (Mixing Tens). New page on the German two-handed game 66 ( Sechsundsechzig ), and the page on the related…