📚 Card Games

The pack’s repertoire: the games themselves and the rulebooks that keep explaining them.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject card games in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The laws and principles of whist stated and explained	Cavendish	1864	17
	Hoyle's games improved	Edmond Hoyle	1775	15
	150 Ways to Play Solitaire	Alphonse Moyse, Jr.	1950	14
	According to Hoyle	Richard L. Frey	1956	10
	Scarne On Cards	John Scarne	1949	9
	The Mystic Test Book	Olney H. Richmond	1893	8
	Official Rules of Card Games	U S Playing Card Co	1961	8
	A gamut of games	Sid Sackson	1969	8
	The theory of the modern scientific game of whist	William Pole	1872	7
	Card Games For Dummies	Barry Rigal	2005	7
	One Dark Window	Rachel Gillig	2022	7
	Hoyle's games	Thomas Frere	1857	6
	A history of playing cards and a bibliography of cards and gaming	Catherine Perry Hargrave	1930	6
	Crazy eights and other card games	Joanna Cole	1994	6
	Games for Your Brain	Tina L. Seelig	1999	6
	Hoyles Card Games	L. Dawson	2013	6
	How to be a consistent winner in the most popular card games	John R. Crawford	1953	5
	The Penguin book of card games	David Parlett	1979	5
	Prophetical, educational and playing cards	Van Rensselaer, John King Mrs.	1912	4
	Hoyle's Rules of Games	Albert H. Morehead	1963	4
	The play of the cards	Terence Reese	1967	4
	Waddingtons family card games	Robert Harbin	1972	4
	Scarne on Cards	John Scarne	1973	4
	Casino gambling	Patterson, Jerry L.	1982	4
	Adventures in card play	Géza Ottlik	1983	4
	Seven card stud for advanced players	David Sklansky	1989	4
	101 favourite card games for one	Sheila Anne Barry	1993	4
	All-time favorite card games	David Galt	1996	4
	A Bibliography Of Works In English On Playing Cards And Gaming	Frederic Jessel	1905	3
	The Pan Book of Card Games	Hubert Phillips	1920	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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