| 2-player collectible card game published in 1993 where players play as wizards casting spells at each other | Magic: The Gathering |
| 2-player game where each player starts with 26 cards, each player lays down a card with the highest card winning, and the objective is to win all the cards | War |
| 2-player game, which is the most popular variation of rummy, in which a player with 10 or fewer points of deadwood may knock | gin (gin rummy) |
| casino game, similar to chemin de fer and popularly featured in the James Bond book "Casino Royale", in which the player with the hand closest to 9 wins | baccarat |
| collectible card game based on a video game where players battle with "pocket monsters" | Pokémon |
| each card captured in a trick, of the suit in the title of the game, incurs a penalty; players can "shoot the moon"; popular variant is "Black Lady" | hearts |
| game based on Crazy Eights with cards like skip, reverse, draw two, wild, and wild draw four; players must shout the name of the game when they have only one card | Uno |
| game originating in Uruguay, whose name is Spanish for "basket", played with 2 decks and 4 jokers where players attempt to make melds of 7 cards | canasta |
| game, similar to Authors, where players ask another player if they have a certain numbered card and, if they don't, that player says the title of the game | Go Fish |
| game, similar to Uno, in which 8s are wild and can be used to change the suit or number | Crazy Eights |
| game, with variations including gin and Michigan, where players try to make melds of sets or runs | rummy |
| kids game in which one of the queens is removed from the deck, pairs of cards get discarded, and the player holding the final queen loses | Old Maid |
| players place bets on who's holding the best hand, with variations including five-card draw, five-card stud and seven-card stud | poker |
| popular casino game where the goal is to get as close to 21 as possible without going over | blackjack |
| risqué party game where players answer questions or fill-in-the-blank statements on black cards using the statements on white cards | Cards Against Humanity |
| score is kept by placing pegs in a board and players score points by completing pairs or reaching a count of exactly 15 | cribbage |
| single-player game, also known as patience and with variations including Klondike, Spider and Canfield, where cards need to be arranged in a sequence | solitaire |
| teams earn a point by winning 3 or 4 tricks and need 5, 7 or 10 points to win; introduced the joker card to standard decks | euchre |
| trick-taking game played with a deck of 48 where each hand has the phases bidding, melds and tricks | pinochle |
| trick-taking game popular in the 18th century that bridge was derived from and gave Edmond Hoyle his start | whist |
| two teams of two bid numbers of tricks on auctions trying get the contract; variations include contract, auction, rubber and duplicate | bridge |
| variation of poker with two hole cards and five community cards | Texas hold 'em |
