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The Penguin Book of Card Games: Everything You Need to Know to Play Over 250 Games, (Paperback)

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The Penguin Book of Card Games: Everything You Need to Know to Play Over 250 Games, (Paperback)The Penguin Book of Card Games Everything You Need to Know to Play Over 250 Games Paperback 9780141037875

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Comprehensive Guide: This paperback offers an authoritative and up-to-date compendium for over 250 card games, catering to both casual and serious players.
Diverse Games: It covers a wide array of card games, from skill-based like Bridge to chance-driven like Newmarket, including trick-taking (Whist) and banking (Pontoon).
Expert Author: Written by David Parlett, a seasoned specialist in card games, ensuring expert guidance and detailed explanations.
Varied Card Types: Beyond conventional 52-card packs, the book explores games played with other card types, such as Tarot.
Detailed Descriptions: Each game includes a "working description" outlining rules, variations, and historical origins, alongside an appendix of games invented by the author.
Extensive Content: Comprising 688 pages, this 2009 publication provides in-depth information for both novice and experienced card players.

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Home, Hobbies, & Garden
Pub date
2009-04-28
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The Penguin Book of Card Games is the authoritative up-to-date compendium, describing an abundance of games to be played both for fun and by serious players. Auctions, trumpless hands, cross-ruffing and lurching: card players have a language all of their own. From games of high skill (Bridge) to games of high chance (Newmarket) to trick-taking (Whist) and banking (Pontoon), David Parlett, seasoned specialist in card games, takes us masterfully through the countless games to choose from. Not content to merely show us games with the conventional fifty-two card pack, Parlett covers many games played with other types of cards - are you brave enough to play with Tarot? With a 'working description' of each game, with the rules, variations and origins of each, as well as an appendix of games invented by the author himself, The Penguin Book of Card Games will delight, entertain and inform both the novice and the seasoned player.

The Penguin Book of Card Games: Everything You Need to Know to Play Over 250 Games, (Paperback)
Author: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780141037875
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 2009-04-28
Page Count: 688

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Paperback

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Non-Fiction

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Home, Hobbies, & Garden

Pub date

2009-04-28

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