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- David Parlett has published a collection of rules for Historic Card Games.
- The Medieval and Renaissance games site has information about the history of card games and publishes reconstructions of early card games.
- Playing Cards Online is a reference site for information about playing-cards and card games.
- The Card Games section of Braingle has a collection of card games organised by popularity, complexity and number of players. Visitors can rate the games and contribute comments.
- Bill Whitnack's Rules for Card Games site describes several games played in Canada.
- Howard Fosdick's Cards and Dominoes site is a collection of rules for several less-known card and domino games.
- The Game Cabinet covers all kinds of games, and includes rules or reviews of some card games and some games played with dominoes.
- Z. Teun Spaan's Domino Plaza has a comprehensive collection of rules of games played with dominoes.
- The Real Beer Page has a collection rules for about 50 drinking card games.
- DupYup.com provides rules for drinking games including several card games.
- The Alcohol Stuff web site has a small collection of drinking games, including a few card games.
- John Hay's Rule Book is a collection of current rules of American card games compiled from surveys over the Internet.
- The US Playing Card Company web site includes a rules archive with the complete text of their book, the Bicycle Official Rules of Card Games.
- Graham Leonard's Hanafuda and Kabufuda site provides rules for Japanese games played with flower cards and kabu cards.
- Here is an archive copy of Dave Barker's House of Cards with rules of several card games.
- Jack O Spades' Card Gamer's Alley (archive copy) provided another selection of card game rules.
- Here is an archive copy of Brad Wilson's Card Games pages, which had descriptions of several North American games.
- Nicholas Cheung's Card Games Home Page with yet another selection
- C. Scott Davis's Card Games page has a collection of card games to play with 5-suited and 6-suited decks.
- The Games Forum has a collection of information about card games and other games; many of the card game links lead back to this site (pagat.com).
- Rick Heli maintains a page of Card Games of the Donauschwaben in 18th and 19th-century Hungary
- Jean-François Bustarret's Jeux de Cartes site has rules of card games in French
- Philippe Lalanne's L'Académie des Jeux Oubliés has descriptions in French of a number of old games, including some card games.
- The Plaisir de Jouer site has rules in French for several card games which are found by following the link "carto".
- The Acanomas site, based in Argentina, has information in Spanish about all kinds of traditional games, including rules of many card games.
- The Jogos de Cartas web site has information in Portuguese, mostly on Brazilian card games and playing-cards.
- Cristian Seres' site Korttipelien sääntöjä ja Internet-linkkejä has rules of Finnish and other card games in Finnish.
- The Doktorek web site offers rules of Polish and other card games in Polish.
- Rolands Spiele provides comprehensive descriptions in German of Gin Rummy, Viennese Canasta, Écarté and partnership dominoes.
- www.kartenspiele.net includes a collection of German card game rules, as well as software and some information on card tricks.
- Yuki Akagiri's Cardgame Farm has rules for various (mostly western) card games in Japanese.
- The Dutch page cardgames.pagina.nl has a collection of links to other card game related sites; cardgames.start4all.com seems to be another version of the same page.
- The Central Connector site has a large collection of rules, mostly of proprietary games, including several card games.
- The Card Games section of the Board Game Geek site lists a large number of card games, mainly commercial (proprietary) games, and gives reviews and publication details.
- The Big Game Hunter is a site devoted to the history of the games industry in the USA and includes many photographs of proprietary card and board games.
- The Association of Game and Puzzle Collectors maintains, among other things, an archive of instructions old proprietary board and card games from the USA - photocopies can be ordered for a small charge.
- The Board Gamesbook is mostly devoted to board games but includes some card information, mainly on newly invented games to be played with Tarot cards.
- The Card Game Rules site has rules for a number of popular Anglo-American games; some of the descriptions are derived from the pages here at pagat.com.
- Game Caravan is devoted to helping gamers find games, info, local game groups, conventions, and links. It deals mainly with board games but includes some proprietary card games.
- The Card Games section of the Gamestalks directory provides a collection of links to card game information.
- Links to other sites with information about specific games can be found under the relevant game. Use the alphabetical index to find the game.
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