# New playing card games? Who? When? Where? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** board-card-word-game\ **Created:** [December 22, 2022, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-playing-card-games-who-when-where/976973 "2022-12-22T23:32:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DooProcess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f14d63/32.png) [@DooProcess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooProcess)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2022, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-playing-card-games-who-when-where/976973/1 "2022-12-22T23:32:29Z")
People must surely still invent the occasional card game yet using a standard deck. It proves difficult for me to search this topic without running into a slew of new games using proprietary decks. Also this isn’t meant to be about “house rules” situations within existing games although I suppose that is a likely way that games are invented. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2022, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-playing-card-games-who-when-where/976973/2 "2022-12-22T23:51:56Z")
How new do you want? Goofspiel is less than a century old; that’s the newest I can come up with off the top of my head. Egyptian Rat Screw might be newer; the Wikipedia article says merely that it’s based on a 19th-century game (but the older game is missing slapping, a key feature of ERS). ---
**Author:** ![DooProcess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f14d63/32.png) [@DooProcess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooProcess)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2022, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-playing-card-games-who-when-where/976973/3 "2022-12-22T23:56:08Z")
Username/first sentence combo. As new as possible. It is a curious topic with the way that card games spread. I will check out those wiki pages you mentioned. I suspect that most card games end up with no credit to the creator. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2022, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-playing-card-games-who-when-where/976973/4 "2022-12-23T00:08:46Z")
Regicide is a great game for 2-4 players (it may also play solo?) that has bobbed to the surface of popularity in the last couple of years, but as these rules say its best with two. Here are the rules - just note there are terms like “animal companions” or whatever, it’s just a name given to a standard playing card (in this case the “A”, or ace). Give it a try! [Regicide Rules | PDF (scribd.com)](https://www.scribd.com/document/528995626/Regicide-Rules) ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2022, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-playing-card-games-who-when-where/976973/5 "2022-12-23T14:24:06Z")
I remember Games Magazine (back when I had a subscription in the '80s and '90s) would have rules for new card games once in a blue moon. Specifically I remember liking a game called Parlement, although I think they mentioned that it was based on an older French game. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2022, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-playing-card-games-who-when-where/976973/6 "2022-12-23T16:27:31Z")
I don’t know if this is recent enough for you, but in 1960 the rules for game svoyi kosiri was published: > **[Svoyi Koziri](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svoyi_Koziri)** > > Svoyi Koziri, Svoi Kozyri or Vsyak svoi kozyri, is a Russian going-out card game for two players which some\[who?\] consider an elaboration of the Czech game Sedma. This game is one of perfect information and hence entirely of foresight and calculation. It differs from almost all other card games, in that the element of luck is eliminated, as, at any one time in the game, a player will know exactly which cards his opponent has. > It was first published in the Pan Book of Card Games under the name "C... As the little clip there says, it’s a bit unusual as it is a card game with perfect information. ---
**Author:** ![DooProcess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f14d63/32.png) [@DooProcess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooProcess)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2022, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-playing-card-games-who-when-where/976973/7 "2022-12-23T19:35:48Z")
These are great examples. Thank you. It looks like new card games are still being invented albeit at a trickle. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2022, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-playing-card-games-who-when-where/976973/8 "2022-12-30T18:14:17Z")
I will second Regicide and can confirm it can be played Solo because that is how I have played it. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2022, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-playing-card-games-who-when-where/976973/9 "2022-12-31T23:10:16Z")
[Tichu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tichu) is relatively new to the USA, although it’s not strictly a standard deck (it has the 52 normal cards plus four more… you could make your own deck by buying two identical decks and writing on the jokers). [Barbu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbu_(card_game)) originated in the “early 20th century”. It’s a fantastic game for fairly serious trick-taking game players who have temporarily had their fill of Bridge, Hearts and Spades. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2022, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-playing-card-games-who-when-where/976973/10 "2022-12-31T23:15:52Z")
I was also going to mention games like Asshole or Screw Your Neighbor, usually drinking games. Asshole appears to be based on ancient East Asian “climbing” and “shedding” games, but from what I could find, didn’t show up in the West until the late 70s. ---
**Author:** ![alfonzos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@alfonzos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alfonzos)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2023, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-playing-card-games-who-when-where/976973/11 "2023-01-01T22:31:39Z")
Have you tried [this web site?](https://www.pagat.com/)