Links: Card and Tile Games - Rules and Information

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.
Card Game Heaven provides a collection of rules of card games for one or more players.
The White Knuckle Cards site has rules for several Australian and other card games.
Wikipedia now has quite a large collection of card game rules, to which readers can contribute.
Cheryle Kaus's website 52pickup.net has a collection of card game rules including several Canadian games.
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.
The Alcohol Stuff web site has a small collection of drinking games, including a few card games.
Another collection of drinking card games can be found at the Student Drinking Games site.
Here is an archive copy of DupYup.com, which provided rules for drinking games including several card games.
John Hay's Rule Book is a collection of current rules of American card games compiled from surveys over the Internet.
The Bicycle Cards web site includes a rules archive with the complete text of their book, the Bicycle Official Rules of Card Games. Parts of this are also available as an iPhone app called How to Play.
Graham Leonard's Hanafuda and Kabufuda site provides rules for Japanese games played with flower cards and kabu cards.
Jim Buckley's Playing Cards and Games for Fun has rules for several British card games.
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.
Ridouane Daanouni's Jeux de Cartes site has rules in French for a large number of French and other card games.
The Italian site tretre.it includes a library - Biblioteca del tre - with reproductions of several early Italian descriptions of card games.
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.
WIKARTA is a project by cardmakers Carta Mundi and Copag to compile an encyclopedia of card games and their rules, currently available only in Portuguese.
Cristian Seres' site Korttipelien sääntöjä ja Internet-linkkejä has rules of Finnish and other card games in Finnish.
Mikko Saari's Finnish language web site Korttipeliopas has card game rules and information.
The Kártyajátékok section of Antal Jánoska's site Szerencsés Kártyajárást has rules of card games in Hungarian: English and German translations are planned.
The Doktorek web site, which offers rules of Polish and other card games in Polish, was formerly available at www.googie.pl. Here is an archive copy.
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.
Kartenspiele online is a small but growing collection of card game rules in German.
Yuki Akagiri's Cardgame Farm has rules for various (mostly western) card games in Japanese.
The Dutch page cardgames.startpagina.nl has a collection of links to other card game related sites.
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 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.
The German language site Allekartenspiele.de has a collection of short descriptions of German card games.
Links to other sites with information about specific games can be found under the relevant game. Use the alphabetical index to find the game.