52 cards
Standard 52-card deck
The classic French-suited deck found in nearly every home.
The standard deck — sometimes called the French-suited or Anglo-American deck — has 52 cards split into four suits: spades ♠, hearts ♥, diamonds ♦ and clubs ♣. Hearts and diamonds are red; spades and clubs are black.
Each suit has 13 ranks: Ace, 2 through 10, and three face (court) cards — Jack, Queen and King. Whether the Ace counts high or low depends on the game, so every guide on this site tells you exactly how cards rank.
- Suits
- ♠ Spades · ♥ Hearts · ♦ Diamonds · ♣ Clubs
- Ranks per suit
- A, 2–10, J, Q, K (13)
- Face cards
- 12 (Jack, Queen, King × 4)
- Total
- 52 cards
Every card in the deck
Spades
Hearts
Diamonds
Clubs
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- Coming soonCasino & vying
Blackjack
aka Twenty-One, Vingt-et-un
Draw cards to get closer to 21 than the dealer without going over. Learn to hit, stand, double and split.
- Players
- 2–8
- Deck
- Standard 52
- Level
- Easy
- Coming soonFishing & capturing
Casino
aka Cassino
Capture cards from the table by matching ranks or building sums. Big and Little Casino are worth bonus points.
- Players
- 2–4
- Deck
- Standard 52
- Level
- Medium
- Coming soonShedding
Cheat
aka BS, I Doubt It
Play cards face down and claim their rank. Call out a liar and they pick up the pile — but guess wrong and it's yours.
- Players
- 3–10
- Deck
- Standard 52
- Level
- Easy
- Coming soonTrick-taking
Contract Bridge
aka Bridge
Partners bid for a contract, then the declarer plays both hands to make it. Endless depth.
- Players
- 4
- Deck
- Standard 52
- Level
- Hard
- Coming soonCounting & adding
Cribbage
Score combinations in play and in hand, pegging your way around the board to 121.
- Players
- 2–4
- Deck
- Standard 52
- Level
- Medium
- Coming soonFishing & capturing
Cuarenta
Capture cards by matching and adding, race to 40 points and watch for the instant-win caída.
- Players
- 2–4
- Deck
- Standard 52
- Level
- Medium
- Coming soonShedding
Durak
Attack and defend with trumps; the last player holding cards is the durak — the fool.
- Players
- 2–6
- Deck
- Standard 52
- Level
- Medium
- Coming soonSpeed & slapJ
Egyptian Ratscrew
aka ERS, Slap
Take turns flipping cards to a central pile. Slap it on doubles and sandwiches to win the whole stack.
- Players
- 2–6
- Deck
- Standard 52
- Level
- Easy
- Coming soonTrick-taking
Euchre
Partners name trump and race to take three of five tricks. The Jacks of trump color are the bowers.
- Players
- 4
- Deck
- Standard 52
- Level
- Medium
- Coming soonSolitaire & patienceK
FreeCell
All cards are dealt face up. Use four free cells to shuffle cards around and build up the foundations.
- Players
- 1
- Deck
- Standard 52
- Level
- Medium
- Coming soonRummy
Gin Rummy
Form sets and runs, reduce your deadwood and knock — or go gin for a big bonus.
- Players
- 2
- Deck
- Standard 52
- Level
- Medium
- Coming soonFamily & kidsQ
Go Fish
Ask other players for ranks to collect books of four. The player with the most books wins.
- Players
- 2–6
- Deck
- Standard 52
- Level
- Easy
- Coming soonFamily & kidsQ
Golf
aka Six-Card Golf
Swap cards into your face-down grid to build the lowest-scoring layout over nine rounds.
- Players
- 2–6
- Deck
- Standard 52
- Level
- Easy
- Coming soonSolitaire & patienceK
Golf Solitaire
Clear seven columns by playing cards one rank higher or lower than the top of the waste pile.
- Players
- 1
- Deck
- Standard 52
- Level
- Easy
- Coming soonTrick-taking
Hearts
Dodge every heart and the Queen of Spades — unless you can take them all and shoot the moon.
- Players
- 3–6
- Deck
- Standard 52
- Level
- Medium
- Coming soonFamily & kidsQ
Kemps
Collect four of a kind and give your partner a secret signal — but don't get caught by the other team.
- Players
- 4–8
- Deck
- Standard 52
- Level
- Easy
- Coming soonSolitaire & patienceK
Klondike Solitaire
aka Solitaire, Patience
Build four foundations from Ace to King by moving cards across seven tableau columns in alternating colors.
- Players
- 1
- Deck
- Standard 52
- Level
- Easy
- Coming soonSpeed & slapJ
Nertz
aka Pounce
Everyone plays solitaire simultaneously onto shared foundations, racing to empty their Nertz pile.
- Players
- 2–8
- Deck
- Standard 52
- Level
- Medium
- Coming soonTrick-taking
Oh Hell
aka Oh Heck, Up and Down the River
Each round, bid the exact number of tricks you'll take. Hit your bid on the nose to score.
- Players
- 3–7
- Deck
- Standard 52
- Level
- Medium
- Coming soonFamily & kidsQ
Old Maid
Pair off your cards and draw from your neighbor — whoever is left holding the unpaired Queen loses.
- Players
- 2–8
- Deck
- Standard 52
- Level
- Easy
- Coming soonShedding
President
aka Scum, Asshole, Kings
Shed cards by beating the previous play. Finishing order decides who's President and who's Scum next round.
- Players
- 4–8
- Deck
- Standard 52
- Level
- Easy
- Coming soonSolitaire & patienceK
Pyramid Solitaire
Clear a pyramid of cards by removing pairs that total 13. Kings come off on their own.
- Players
- 1
- Deck
- Standard 52
- Level
- Easy
- Coming soonRummy
Rummy 500
aka 500 Rum
Meld sets and runs, lay off on anyone's melds and take whole runs of the discard pile — first to 500 wins.
- Players
- 2–8
- Deck
- Standard 52
- Level
- Medium
- Coming soonTrick-taking
Spades
Partners bid how many tricks they'll take; spades are always trump. Make your bid — or go nil.
- Players
- 4
- Deck
- Standard 52
- Level
- Medium
- Coming soonSpeed & slapJ
Speed
aka Spit (US)
Race to play cards one rank above or below the center piles. First to empty their cards wins.
- Players
- 2
- Deck
- Standard 52
- Level
- Easy
- Coming soonSolitaire & patienceK
Spider Solitaire
Arrange cards into complete King-to-Ace runs of the same suit to clear them from the table.
- Players
- 1
- Deck
- Standard 52
- Level
- Medium
- Coming soonSpeed & slapJ
Spit
aka Slam, Slam!
Each player builds from their own solitaire-style layout onto shared spit piles. Slap the smaller pile to win the round.
- Players
- 2
- Deck
- Standard 52
- Level
- Easy
- Coming soonSpeed & slapJ
Spoons
aka Pig
Pass cards around the table to collect four of a kind, then grab a spoon — the player left without one is out.
- Players
- 3–13
- Deck
- Standard 52
- Level
- Easy
- Coming soonCasino & vying
Texas Hold'em
aka Hold'em, Poker
Make the best five-card poker hand using two hole cards and five community cards across four betting rounds.
- Players
- 2–10
- Deck
- Standard 52
- Level
- Medium
- Coming soonShedding
Tiến Lên
aka Thirteen, Vietnamese Cards
Beat the previous play with a higher single, pair, triple or run. 2s are high — and bombs can beat them.
- Players
- 2–4
- Deck
- Standard 52
- Level
- Medium
- Coming soonFamily & kidsQ
War
Both players flip a card; the higher card takes both. Ties trigger a war. Win every card to win the game.
- Players
- 2
- Deck
- Standard 52
- Level
- Easy
- Coming soonTrick-taking
Whist
A simple partnership trick-taking game: no bidding, just take the most tricks with the trump suit.
- Players
- 4
- Deck
- Standard 52
- Level
- Easy