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Generic on-line card game programs

Virtual Deck is a free format online card game server, available free of charge from rlsoftwares. It can be used to play online almost any card game that uses one or more standard 52 card decks (or subsets of them). The players are responsible for enforcing the rules and keeping score. The virtual cards can be moved around the playing surface between public and private areas, stacked face up or face down, shuffled and so on, allowing a wide range of card games to be played.

Evver.com is a site for playing online card games and is the home of an open source project for developing online card games.

Nosferatu has written a Tarot / Tarock module for the free format Vassal Game Engine. This enables any card game using a 78-card French suited Tarot or Tarock deck to be played over the Internet.

Servers for specific card games

Each of the following sites offers a range of games:

• Yahoo! Games (Bridge, Hearts, Spades, Euchre, Poker, Gin Rummy, Cribbage, Sheepshead, Blackjack, Canasta)
• Game Colony offers head to head games and multi-player tournaments, which can be played free or for cash prizes: Gin Rummy, Cribbage, Spades, Canasta, Solitaire and Dominoes.
• Case's Ladder Online (Hearts, Spades, Cribbage, Euchre, Bid Whist) features online play versus computer or real opponents, automated online leagues and a tournament ranking system.
• Club Games free server beta testing Poker and Dominoes and planning to offer Hearts, Spades, Gin, Canasta, Cribbage, Euchre
• World Winner (Hearts, Spades, Solitaire)
• The Tams11 lobby (Barbu, Euchre, Cribbage, Oh Pshaw (Oh Hell), Hand and Foot, Snerks (Spite and Malice), Michigan Rummy (Tripoli, Rummoli), Blizo)
• Skill 7 (German language) (Skat, Doppelkopf, XXer-Rufen, Schieber Jass, Differenzler Jass, Rummy, Spite and Malice, Belote, Canasta, Schnapsen)
• PlaySite (Hearts, Spades, Euchre, Cribbage, Bridge, Gin)
• IPlay (Spades, Hearts, Gin Rummy, Cribbage, Euchre)
• Nabisco World (Hearts, Spades, Solitaire)
• Tretre (Tressette, Briscola, Scopa)
• Game Zone (Bridge, Hearts, Spades)
• Games4Money (Gin Rummy, Tonk, Acey Deucey, Spades, Dominoes)
• www.won.net (Blackjack, Hearts, Euchre, Pinochle, Cribbage, Bridge)
• Pogo (Bridge, Euchre, Hearts, Spades)
• World Gaming Center (Cribbage, Hearts, Spades, Euchre, Bridge)
• NetIntellGames (Russian Preference, Gin Rummy, Poker, Spades, Spite and Malice, Durak, Cribbage)
• Favorite Games (Belote, 3-5-8, 66, Bridge, Okey, Draw Dominoes, Texas Hold'em)
• Games.com (Canasta, Cribbage, Euchre, Gin Rummy, Hearts, Oklahoma Gin, Pinochle, Spades, Whist, Solitaire, Poker)
• Rubl.com (Gin Rummy, Cribbage, Dominoes, Canasta)
• Dracis - Java games: Skat, Whist, Tien Len, Spades, Hearts
• Classicard from Flair games - a collection of games for the Microsoft Xbox 360: Euchre, Hearts, Oh hell, Spades, Romanian whist, Knockout whist
• Rummy Network (English) and Ultinet (Hungarian) - Rummy, Gin Rummy, Robber (Manipulation) Rummy, Bridge, Schnapsen (66), Rikiki (Oh Hell), Ulti, Macau (Crazy Eights), Zsir, Tarokk, 21.
• Zoo Games (Spades, Double Deck Pinochle, Gin Rummy)
• Juegon (Spanish language) (Escoba, Pocha, Poker, Tute, Mus, Domino).
• Game Table Online offers several proprietary games requiring special cards, including Nuclear War, Lord of the Fries and Overthrone.
• Randy Rasa's House of Cards includes a large collection of WebTV-compatible card games.
• WebTV card games - a page of links to online card games which playable from a WebTV terminal
• PlayOK Online Games (formerly known as Kurnik) offers several Polish and international games (3-5-8, kierki,hearts, oh hell!, bridge, pan, canasta, 66, cribbage, skat, cucumber, spades, durak, switch, gin rummy, thousand).
• Game Desire (Bridge, Solitaires, 66, 3-5-8, Tysiac, Cheater, Crazy 8s, Cribbage, Euchre, Fantan, Gin, Hearts, Kierki, Kuku, Pan, Pinochle, Planning, Rummy 500, Skat, Spades, Poker: Texas Hold'em, Omaha, Pineapple, 7 Card Draw, 5 Card Draw, 5 Card Stud). Games are available in several language versions (English, Spanish, German, Turkish).
• Casino Games Simulation has Java versions of several casino games including Blackjack, Paigow Poker, Baccarat and Video Poker which can be played on line for fun or practice.
• Rcade.com has a collection of free online games including several card games.
• The Card Games section of Games Only has some solitaire games and a blackjack game that can be played for fun online against the computer.
• The Funny Earth site includes some card games on its board games and casino games pages.
• Aquijuego has a collection of free card games to play online against the computer, with descriptions in Spanish.

There are also sites offering services for Bridge and Poker and other specific card games - see the links on those pages for further details.

Randy Rasa's House of Cards has further information about on-line card game sites.