Pagat.com
Encyclopedia
Pagat.com is a website containing rules to hundreds of card game
s from all over the world. Maintained by John McLeod, it contains information for traditional, commercial, and newly invented card games from all over the world.
The site does not provide official rules to "folk games", but rather reports how the games are actually played. As a consequence, the game articles provide many variants for the described games. The site relies on volunteer contributors from all over the world, and the game articles provide information on where the games are played as described and who has contributed the rules. The site also describes games that are played with domino-style tiles, which, although similar in spirit, are not strictly speaking card games. In addition, the site contains many pages related to card games in general, including a page on the general mechanics of card games.
The word "Pagat" in the website's name is derived from the term given to the lowest ranking trump in Tarock card games such as Königrufen
.
David Parlett's
book Teach Yourself Card Games recommends the site as the first and probably the only place one needs to seek for rules of card games, and his A-Z of Card Games refers to entries in pagat.com for the rules of those games that are only mentioned in the book.
Card game
A card game is any game using playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, be they traditional or game-specific. Countless card games exist, including families of related games...
s from all over the world. Maintained by John McLeod, it contains information for traditional, commercial, and newly invented card games from all over the world.
The site does not provide official rules to "folk games", but rather reports how the games are actually played. As a consequence, the game articles provide many variants for the described games. The site relies on volunteer contributors from all over the world, and the game articles provide information on where the games are played as described and who has contributed the rules. The site also describes games that are played with domino-style tiles, which, although similar in spirit, are not strictly speaking card games. In addition, the site contains many pages related to card games in general, including a page on the general mechanics of card games.
The word "Pagat" in the website's name is derived from the term given to the lowest ranking trump in Tarock card games such as Königrufen
Königrufen
Königrufen or Königsrufen is a trick-taking card game four-player variant played in Austria and nearby areas in Central Europe, especially in Slovenia...
.
David Parlett's
David Parlett
David Parlett is a games scholar from South London, who has studied both card games and board games. His published works include many popular books on games and the more academic volumes "Oxford Guide to Card Games" and "Oxford History of Board Games", both now out of print...
book Teach Yourself Card Games recommends the site as the first and probably the only place one needs to seek for rules of card games, and his A-Z of Card Games refers to entries in pagat.com for the rules of those games that are only mentioned in the book.