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Category Archives: Card Game Design

Design Challenge: Add House Rules to a Standard-Deck Card Game

This is an excerpt from my ebook, How to Design Card Games. If you’ve never designed a card game before, it can be easier to start by adding house rules to an existing game. Here are the top 10 card games that Americans played in 2016 (excluding gambling and adult games): Uno Rummy Spades Solitaire Go Fish Euchre Hearts Pitch Cribbage Phase 10 Take a card game you like and make it better. It can be a game played with a standard deck of cards, or a game played with […]

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