Uno 108-card deck, 2–10 players◆ Skip-Bo 162 cards, first to empty the stock pile◆ Cribbage highest possible hand: 29 points◆ Phase 10 10 phases, completed in order◆ Five Crowns five suits, 116 cards, 11 rounds◆ Pinochle 250 trick points on the table each hand◆ Euchre 24-card short deck, lone march scores 4◆ Canasta natural canasta: 500 points◆ Gin Rummy knock at deadwood 10 or less◆ Spades 13 cards each, spades always trump◆ Farkle rolling three 1s scores 1,000 points, the same as many six-of-a-kind rolls◆ Yahtzee a full scorecard has 13 categories split across an upper and lower section◆ Dominoes a standard double-six set has exactly 28 tiles◆ Mexican Train commonly played with a double-12 domino set of 91 tiles◆ Chinese Checkers invented in Germany in 1892, not China — the name was a 1920s US marketing move◆ Solitaire not every deal of Klondike is winnable, even with perfect play◆ Spider Solitaire combines two full decks, 104 cards in play at once◆ FreeCell of the original 32,000 numbered deals, only game #11982 has never been solved◆ Hearts taking every point card lets you "shoot the moon" and flip the scoring on everyone else◆ Go Fish a completed "book" is all four cards of a single rank◆ War has no fixed length — in theory, a game can go on until one player has drawn every card◆ Old Maid can be played with a Joker added or a Queen removed, depending on which house convention a group prefers◆ Bridge a bid of "1" actually means 7 tricks: an automatic 6-trick "book" plus 1 more◆ Sequence combines a 10x10 board with two full decks of cards instead of dice or a single deck◆ Bunco a full party is commonly played across 4 tables at once, with players rotating between them◆ Kings Corner only a King can start a brand new pile in one of the board's 4 corners◆ Exploding Kittens every player starts with a guaranteed Defuse card in hand◆ LCR a player rolls one die for every chip they're still holding, up to a maximum of 3◆ Apples to Apples the judge never knows which player submitted which card◆ Pyramid Solitaire a King can be removed on its own since it's already worth exactly 13

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