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The Penguin Book of Card Games: Everything You Need to Know to Play Over 250 Games by David Parlett is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Penguin Book of Card Games: Everything You Need to Know to Play Over 250 Games about?

The Penguin Book of Card Games is the authoritative up-to-date compendium, describing an abundance of games to be played both for fun and by serious players. Auctions, trumpless hands, cross-ruffing and lurching: card players have a language all of their own. From games of high skill (Bridge) to games of high chance (Newmarket) to trick-taking (Whist) and banking (Pontoon), David Parlett, seasoned specialist in card games, takes us masterfully through the countless games to choose from. Not content to merely show us games with the conventional fifty-two card pack, Parlett covers many games played with other types of cards - are you brave enough to play with Tarot? With a 'working description' of each game, with the rules, variations and origins of each, as well as an appendix of games invented by the author himself, The Penguin Book of Card Games will delight, entertain and inform both the novice and the seasoned player.

Who reads The Penguin Book of Card Games: Everything You Need to Know to Play Over 250 Games?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
David Parlett
Publisher
Penguin Adult
Published
2008
Language
EN
ISBN
9780141916101
Category
nonfiction
Rating
4.4 / 5 (355 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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