Publisher's Synopsis
Provides a two-colour guide to the rules and strategies of 90 popular family and children's card games. Methods of play are illustrated and games featured include "all fives", "auction pitch", "Boston", "bridge", and bridge variations, "briscola", "calabraella", "canasta", "casino", "cribbage", "grand", "hearts", "rummy", "seven-up", "Scotch whist", "vint" and "whist". Of the card games featured for children, "beggar-my-neighbour", "card dominoes", "cheat", "donkey", "my ship sails", "old maid", "snap", "spit", "stealing bundles" and "war" are a few examples.