Card & Trading Card Games

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1. 1.Which classic card game captures table cards in the Anglo cousin of scopa?

   • A. Skat
   • B. Whist
   • C. Cheat
   • D. Cassino
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   Cassino

   Did you know? In Cassino, sweeping every table card in one turn is a bonus.

2. 2.Which modern card game fights poker-hand formations across nine ancient flags?

   • A. Munchkin
   • B. Battle Line
   • C. No Thanks!
   • D. Set
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   Battle Line

   Did you know? Battle Line is Reiner Knizia's two-player reworking of Schotten Totten.

3. 3.Which trading card game walked players through Tolkien's journeys in 1995?

   • A. One Piece Card Game
   • B. Middle-earth Collectible Card Game
   • C. KeyForge
   • D. Legend of the Five Rings
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   Middle-earth Collectible Card Game

   Did you know? The Middle-earth Collectible Card Game was published by Iron Crown Enterprises.

4. 4.Which classic card game claims the pile whenever the jack appears?

   • A. Hanafuda
   • B. Cassino
   • C. Hearts
   • D. Slapjack
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   Slapjack

   Did you know? Slapjack is the jack-chasing cousin of snap.

5. 5.Which modern card game hires sailors and risks over-drawing at the harbor table?

   • A. Port Royal
   • B. Dobble
   • C. No Thanks!
   • D. Set
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   Port Royal

   Did you know? Port Royal is a push-your-luck card game by Alexander Pfister.

6. 6.Which trading card game deals decks that no other copy in the world repeats?

   • A. Vampire: The Eternal Struggle
   • B. Ashes: Rise of the Phoenixborn
   • C. Spellfire
   • D. KeyForge
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   KeyForge

   Did you know? KeyForge (2019) uses procedurally generated, unique decks by design.

7. 7.Which classic card game melds toward seven-card canastas born in 1940s Uruguay?

   • A. FreeCell
   • B. Canasta
   • C. Belote
   • D. Speed
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   Canasta

   Did you know? Canasta swept the United States in the 1950s.

8. 8.Which modern card game pays chips to dodge cards that everyone else must weigh?

   • A. No Thanks!
   • B. Skip-Bo
   • C. Mille Bornes
   • D. Dobble
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   No Thanks!

   Did you know? In No Thanks!, the lowest score wins the round.

9. 9.Which trading card game pits an asymmetric corporation against a data thief?

   • A. Dragon Ball Super Card Game
   • B. Netrunner
   • C. Spellfire
   • D. BattleTech Collectible Card Game
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   Netrunner

   Did you know? Netrunner (1996) was designed by Richard Garfield and later relaunched as Android: Netrunner.

10. 10.Which classic card game is one of the oldest recorded card games, loved in French salons?

    • A. Spades
    • B. Skat
    • C. Slapjack
    • D. Piquet
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    Piquet

    Did you know? Piquet is mentioned in writing as early as the sixteenth century.

11. 11.Which trading card game arms heroes with equipment in a 2019 New Zealand design?

    • A. Pokémon Trading Card Game
    • B. Weiss Schwarz
    • C. Flesh and Blood
    • D. KeyForge
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    Flesh and Blood

    Did you know? Flesh and Blood was created by Legend Story Studios.

12. 12.Which classic card game enslaves the pile with face cards in a no-choice children's game?

    • A. Concentration
    • B. Baccarat
    • C. Beggar-My-Neighbour
    • D. Canasta
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    Beggar-My-Neighbour

    Did you know? In Beggar-My-Neighbour, a court card obliges the next player to pay a penalty.

13. 13.Which trading card game wielded Forgotten Realms magic for TSR in 1994?

    • A. Vampire: The Eternal Struggle
    • B. Netrunner
    • C. Spellfire
    • D. Flesh and Blood
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    Spellfire

    Did you know? Spellfire was TSR's 1994 entry into collectible card games.

14. 14.Which classic card game pairs images by flipping two cards face-down at a time?

    • A. Hearts
    • B. Mau-Mau
    • C. Concentration
    • D. Cribbage
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    Concentration

    Did you know? Concentration is also known simply as Memory.

15. 15.Which classic card game climbs the social ranks each round from beggar to president?

    • A. Pinochle
    • B. Hearts
    • C. Go Fish
    • D. President
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    President

    Did you know? In President, the top rank trades cards with the bottom rank at each hand's start.

16. 16.Which classic card game dumps cards onto ascending and descending center piles as fast as hands allow?

    • A. Cribbage
    • B. Five Hundred
    • C. Baccarat
    • D. Speed
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    Speed

    Did you know? In Speed, players race with no turns at all.

17. 17.Which classic card game lies about discarded ranks while the table calls out bluffs?

    • A. Cheat
    • B. Crazy Eights
    • C. Old Maid
    • D. Belote
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    Cheat

    Did you know? Cheat is also known as I Doubt It in the United States.

18. 18.Which classic card game knocks with the lowest deadwood in a two-player meld race?

    • A. Gin Rummy
    • B. Piquet
    • C. Belote
    • D. Go-Stop
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    Gin Rummy

    Did you know? Gin Rummy is commonly credited to Elwood Baker around 1909.

19. 19.Which classic card game chases monthly point cards in Korea's hanafuda favorite?

    • A. Blackjack
    • B. FreeCell
    • C. Gin Rummy
    • D. Go-Stop
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    Go-Stop

    Did you know? Go-Stop is commonly played in Korea with hanafuda-style flower cards.

20. 20.Which classic card game matches suit or rank with eights acting wild?

    • A. President
    • B. Spider
    • C. Pinochle
    • D. Crazy Eights
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    Crazy Eights

    Did you know? Crazy Eights heads the shedding-game family that inspired UNO.

21. 21.Which classic card game trumps with the last dealt card as Italy's four-player favourite?

    • A. Five Hundred
    • B. Piquet
    • C. Briscola
    • D. Go Fish
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    Briscola

    Did you know? Briscola is played across Italy with regional forty-card decks.

22. 22.Which classic card game is the Spanish trick-taking game that swept seventeenth-century Europe?

    • A. Briscola
    • B. Ombre
    • C. Five Hundred
    • D. Euchre
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    Ombre

    Did you know? Ombre was a favorite at the court of Louis XIV.

23. 23.How many cards are dealt to each player in a hand of gin rummy?

    • A. 13
    • B. 11
    • C. 10
    • D. 7
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    10

    Did you know? Gin rummy deals ten cards to each of its two players.

24. 24.Which classic card game slaps the pile the instant two cards match?

    • A. Skat
    • B. Cheat
    • C. Snap
    • D. Crazy Eights
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    Snap

    Did you know? Snap is a children's game of sharp eyes and quick hands.

25. 25.Which modern card game races to exactly 1,000 miles while sabotaging rivals?

    • A. Star Realms
    • B. Mille Bornes
    • C. The Game
    • D. UNO
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    Mille Bornes

    Did you know? Mille Bornes is a French racing card game first released in 1954.

26. 26.Which trading card game staged multiplayer blood feuds as Jyhad in 1994?

    • A. KeyForge
    • B. Flesh and Blood
    • C. Dragon Ball Super Card Game
    • D. Vampire: The Eternal Struggle
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    Vampire: The Eternal Struggle

    Did you know? Vampire: The Eternal Struggle began in 1994 under the name Jyhad.

27. 27.Which classic card game bids melds and plays tricks with a 48-card deck from nines up?

    • A. Pinochle
    • B. Ombre
    • C. Spider
    • D. Briscola
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    Pinochle

    Did you know? Pinochle's deck strips out every card below the nine.

28. 28.Which modern card game predicts exact trick counts that shrink and grow each round?

    • A. Phase 10
    • B. Set
    • C. Skip-Bo
    • D. Oh Hell!
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    Oh Hell!

    Did you know? Oh Hell! is a trick-prediction classic sometimes played as Wizard.

29. 29.Which trading card game sailed the Grand Line onto cards in 2022?

    • A. Disney Lorcana
    • B. One Piece Card Game
    • C. Weiss Schwarz
    • D. BattleTech Collectible Card Game
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    One Piece Card Game

    Did you know? The One Piece Card Game launched in 2022, based on the long-running manga.

30. 30.Which classic card game declares marriage sequences in France's favorite trick-taker?

    • A. Belote
    • B. Euchre
    • C. Poker
    • D. Cassino
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    Belote

    Did you know? Belote is named, by tradition, after a French woman of the 1920s.

31. 31.Which modern card game climbs four ascending and descending ladders in tense silence?

    • A. For Sale
    • B. Port Royal
    • C. Wizard
    • D. The Game
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    The Game

    Did you know? The Game (2015) is a cooperative card game where players may not reveal their hands.

32. 32.Which trading card game mech-ed up the table in 1996?

    • A. Digimon Card Game
    • B. Cardfight!! Vanguard
    • C. Flesh and Blood
    • D. BattleTech Collectible Card Game
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    BattleTech Collectible Card Game

    Did you know? The BattleTech Collectible Card Game was published by Wizards of the Coast in 1996.

33. 33.Which classic card game crowns the trump suit with jacks called bowers?

    • A. Rummy
    • B. Crazy Eights
    • C. Cheat
    • D. Euchre
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    Euchre

    Did you know? Euchre is a favorite in the American Midwest, and the joker may descend from it.

34. 34.Which modern card game flips properties in two quick auctions of buying and selling?

    • A. Set
    • B. Oh Hell!
    • C. Munchkin
    • D. For Sale
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    For Sale

    Did you know? For Sale splits its play into a property-buying half and a check-cashing half.

35. 35.Which trading card game duelled dice-slinging spellcasters from Plaid Hat Games?

    • A. Netrunner
    • B. Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game
    • C. Ashes: Rise of the Phoenixborn
    • D. BattleTech Collectible Card Game
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    Ashes: Rise of the Phoenixborn

    Did you know? Ashes: Rise of the Phoenixborn was first published in 2015.

36. 36.Which classic card game sweeps table cards whose totals match the card you play?

    • A. Scopa
    • B. Concentration
    • C. Old Maid
    • D. Gin Rummy
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    Scopa

    Did you know? Scopa is an Italian capture game whose name means "broom".

37. 37.Which trading card game charges ki attacks into a 2017 card game?

    • A. BattleTech Collectible Card Game
    • B. Dragon Ball Super Card Game
    • C. Spellfire
    • D. Ashes: Rise of the Phoenixborn
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    Dragon Ball Super Card Game

    Did you know? The Dragon Ball Super Card Game launched in 2017 from Bandai.

38. 38.Which classic card game bids six to eight tricks in the game beloved in Australia?

    • A. Go Fish
    • B. FreeCell
    • C. Five Hundred
    • D. War
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    Five Hundred

    Did you know? Five Hundred is commonly called Australia's national card game.

39. 39.Which classic card game pits two defenders against one declarer in Germany's classic?

    • A. Skat
    • B. Old Maid
    • C. Belote
    • D. Whist
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    Skat

    Did you know? Skat is commonly called Germany's national card game.

40. 40.Which classic card game is the German shedding classic in the eights-matching family?

    • A. Mau-Mau
    • B. Spider
    • C. Bridge
    • D. Beggar-My-Neighbour
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    Mau-Mau

    Did you know? In Mau-Mau, a player left with one card usually calls out.

41. 41.Which classic card game defends attacks until only one player, the fool, holds cards?

    • A. Blackjack
    • B. Old Maid
    • C. Piquet
    • D. Durak
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    Durak

    Did you know? Durak is a widely played Russian shedding game.

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