Generate a random card game from 117 -- each with how many players it needs and what makes it work.
This generator draws from 117 real card games across five types -- Trick-Taking, Rummy & Melding, Betting & Casino, Shedding & Party, and Solitaire & Two-Player. Nearly all of them need only a standard 52-card deck. Each result names the player count and explains the central idea in a sentence, so you can teach it from the description alone.
Every result here is drawn using crypto.getRandomValues() -- the Web Crypto API's cryptographically secure randomness -- instead of Math.random(), so it's genuinely unpredictable, not just statistically random. Learn more.
Find something new for a games night, settle on a two-player game for a long evening, look up what to play with a group of six, or work through the national games of other countries. The Solitaire & Two-Player filter is the one for a quiet evening or a train journey.
Generate draws one card game at random using the site's cryptographically secure randomness, never repeating the game currently shown in single-result mode. Each result gives the number of players and the core mechanic, and the Type filter narrows from poker to patience.
A sample of what this generator can draw, spread evenly across the full list:
Almost everything here. Hearts, spades, rummy, cribbage, poker, blackjack, and every solitaire variant need nothing but 52 cards -- a handful of entries like Rook and French Tarot use their own decks and say so.
Cribbage and gin rummy are the classic answers. For something faster, Speed or Schnapsen; for something deeper, Piquet, which was the sophisticated player's choice for three hundred years.
By number of players, some form of trick-taking game -- Tute in Spain, Belote in France, Durak in Russia, and Big Two across east Asia each have tens of millions of players.