Free Card Games

Freely available print-and-play card games


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Freely available card games, listed alphabetically (click on the game's entry for more info)

[0-9]

  • [1000 Blank White Cards] - Draw and play game where players make the cards as the game goes on
  • [4-Square] - Unlike the playground game of the same name this is not a game of eliminating. It requires only a standard deck of playing cards without jokers.

[A]

  • [Aardvark] - The Aardvark game's overall objective is based on the idea that people, not cards, should be the friends of Aardvarks.
  • [Abrekodibru] - A card game inspired from the traditional Cheat Game. Players are wizards trying to make up some new magic spells.
  • [Acies] - A card game simulating a battle between two armies represented by the player's decks.
  • [Age of Heroes] - Age of Heroes puts you in charge of one of the great tribes of antiquity, in a struggle to become the great empire that dominates the ancient age.
  • [Alexander the Game] - A free solo card game set in the ancient world of Alexander The Great.
  • [Alpha Playing Cards] - A card game system that allows you to play several word games. Vowel cards are semi-wild -- each vowel card lets you choose between two vowels.
  • [Alphabet Runner] - It’s more than just a game – it’s a battle of wits where imaginations are fired and words are the weapons of choice. The alphabet cards are available in upper and lower case Alphabet to download and print out.
  • [Alzabandiera] - A 'geographical' challenge with questions and answers, and a pizzico of strategy that always fits. Sixty flags to find out how large the world is!
  • [Antimatter] - An explosive card game for two players. Will your cards make you points, or will they explode in your hands?

[B]

  • [The Barons of Fyn] - The Barons of Fyn is a card based strategy game in which competing players each try to become the most mighty Baron of Fyn.
  • [Battle of Berlin] - A two player card game simulating the battle of Berlin (4/3/1945 – 5/2/1945). Players are Russian Generals competing to be the first to capture Berlin.
  • [BattleFront] - A free card game set in World War II. The players control opposite factions and face each other in a fight for victory through five different fronts. The more you get, the better your chances of winning.
  • [Battles: Win or Lose] - Basically an amalgamation of a trading card game and a role-playing game. The object of the game is to beat your opponent Mobs to a pulp.
  • [Be Quick!] - Be Quick is a typical 'party game', easy and quick to play, yet the idea behind it allows to stress your fancy gifts, and your boldness as well.
  • [Big Brutal Basketball] - A free card game about a basketball match between 2+ players.
  • [Black Cat] - A simultaneous, real time, high speed card game for two to four players. Object: To build kitty piles consisting of adjacent pairs of cards that add to 10. There are other card sequences that also score points.
  • [Bleeding Sherwood] - A lunatic named Robin Hood has taken it upon himself to burgle the rich nobles and redistribute their ill-gotten wealth to the ubiquitous Poor. You and your merchant friends have taken it upon yourselves to relieve these simple peasants of their newfound wealth, with such desirable medieval amenities as fyne arte, olde milke, and tropical fyshes.
  • [Boer War] - 2 player card game simulating the Boer War 1899-1902
  • [Bone Barter] - Trade bones with your friends.
  • [Bonsai Samurai] - A nano-game of a duel between two samurai. The game consists of a single card which serves as a somewhat chaotic spinner, which determines the players' options in a weighted rock/paper/scissors-style contest.
  • [Boom Box] - In Boom Box you are challenged in balancing your Boom Box right and left audio channels.
  • [Brain Baseball] - The Zombie card game you can play with a standard deck! Originally released in August 1998 as a limited-edition game, made with leftover bid cards from a poorly sorted print run of Give Me The Brain.
  • [Breakfast at daVinci’s] - Breakfast at daVinci's is a quick game requiring some observation skills, for 2 or more players.
  • [Bunker Hill] - Card game based on the battle from the American Revolution.

[C]

  • [Capture] - A card game for 2 players. You must capture more cards than the other player by the end of one play through the deck.
  • [Car Tricks] - A unique car racing game in that no one person controls a specific car. Instead, players try to predict the entire order of finish for all the cars in the race.
  • [Caveman Dating Game] - The players are a bunch of cavemen competing for the most beautiful women in the tribe. Of course the most desirable women are the most difficult to obtain and hold on to.
  • [Canadian Salad] - A card game in the Barbu family. Players play trick, trying not to get certain cards. Each round has different cards that you are trying to avoid (12 rounds in all.)
  • [Chou Chèv' Loup] - The wolves eat the goats. The goats eat the cabbage. So far so good. The only problem is that wolves don't like to share, and nor do the goats. Will the cabbage manage to turn things in its favor?
  • [Cold War Naval Battles] - Naval card games for two to six players based on Cold War sea power with an emphasis on action. Originally released as Modern Naval Battles.
  • [Commodore] - Simplistic Napoleonic era sea battle simulation using the Micro-Deck Concept: Easily made minimalist deck.
  • [Confab] - A conversation-based blank-card game for any number of players; ideally two. It was idly invented for a prize in Round One of BlogNomic, and has been polished slightly for more-than-two-player games since.
  • [Convocation] - Become the dominant member of your coven by collecting sets of matching animal familiars and enchanted objects.
  • [Coral Reef] - Build a calcareous masterpiece without noticing that you’re practicing addition with another marine polyp. Object: To use all of your corals in building a reef.
  • [Coup D'Etat] - Overthrow your enemy by either assassinating him or turning the populace against him --but to do this you'll need to find him! An entry into the About.com: 2005 Deduction Game Design Competition.
  • [Cripple Mr Onion] - Originally a fictional card game played by characters in Terry Pratchett's novels Wyrd Sisters and Witches Abroad, but made into a real game by Dr Andrew Millard and Prof. Terry Tao. The rules were approved by Pratchett himself.
  • [CromoGnomo] - CromoGnomo is a game for four players, playing in two teams of two players each, that deals with four painter gnomes.
  • [Cthulbeque] - Non-euclidean food preparation, based loosely on the Cthulu mythos, for 2 to 5 chefs.

[D]

  • [Decipher] - Can you crack the code in time? In Decipher, you must figure out your opponent's hidden code before they figure out yours. An entry into the About.com: 2005 Deduction Game Design Competition.
  • [Deduce or Die!] - A deduction game in which the players are trying to find out who among them is a murderer. The actual murderer is as anxious as anyone else to determine the facts of the case, as that will allow him or her to pin the blame on someone else.
  • [Deluxe Memory] - Remembering those matches rewards you with some strategy for two to four players.
  • [Dilbert C.E.O.] - The evil C.E.O. of your company is now dead -- you are one of the employees who seek this position. It doesn't matter how good you get at your job if you are not the first to replace the C.E.O.
  • [Dino Dig] - Search for specimens and toss mud on two to four paleontologists.
  • [Doodads] - “I’ll trade you a cabbage and some duct tape for your toddler.” A game about trading and building for 3 to 5 players.
  • [Druid's Duel] - You’re a druid competing with other druids in a shape changing contest to display your wits and prowess. The druid who best adapts to the tactics of his or her opponents becomes the new head of the Circle.
  • [Dueling Nobles] - Dueling Nobles is an innovative and strategic card game that plays similar to a collectible card game, yet only requires a single deck of playing cards, 6-sided dice, and counters.
  • [Dungeon] - Captured and incarcerated, your only goal is to escape the underground prison you find yourself in. As you search for the hidden route to freedom, you must overcome the underworld's hostile inhabitants and dangerously unstable passages.
  • [Dvorak] - Dvorak is a card game where all of the cards start out blank; players choose a theme, make up enough cards to get started, shuffle and deal, then add further cards to the game as the game progresses.

[E]

  • [Empires] - Basically, each player owns four territories. Four territories that belong to other players. So, once someone lays down the first strike, everyone starts attacking everyone in the hopes of regaining their four territories.
  • [E.S.P.] - E.S.P. is a game for two players, playing powerful ESPers (persons gifted with mental powers).

[F]

  • [Factories] - Factories is a game of building and challenges. Your goal is to produce one of each resource. The first player to do so wins.
  • [Fairy Bucks] - A Magical Auction in Fairyland for 2-5 Players.
  • [FotoCaccia] - Fotocaccia is a visual memory game. In a few seconds you have to memorise the opponents’ pets. Enrich your treasure as much as you can.
  • [The Franco Prussian War of 1870] - The Franco Prussian War of 1870 is a 2 player card game simulating the Franco-Prussian War.
  • [Free Market] - A trick-taking game where the person who wins a round of bidding gets to choose partners. Partnerships surely will not last for more than a couple hands in a row, making for Strange Bedfellows as the saying goes.

[G]

  • [Get Thee to a Dentist] - You didn't brush. You didn't floss. Now only your dentist can repair the damage. But can she keep up with the damage your opponents are causing?
  • [Giant Freaking Worms!] - What better way to terraform a planet than using giant freaking worms to do it for you? They’re big, efficient and pretty dumb too.
  • [Global Supremacy] - Ever been bored on a rainy (or sunny) day and thought, 'Wouldn't it be neat if I had possession of a 20 megaton nuclear warhead?' If so, this is the game for you.
  • [Gnome Sweet Gnome] - Recruit the bravest gnomes, make unbeatable combinations of three cards and destroy the opponent’s defense to conquer the land of the four elements!
  • [Gnostica] - An abstract territory based war game. Tarot cards make up the often-changing board, and players use Icehouse pieces to represent minions that control those territories.
  • [gUFO] - Is this an alien invasion? Shall the base launch an alarm and shot the approaching targets, or there is only the risk to wake up the general for a harmless... owl?

[H]

  • [High Noon] - A memory game for two steely-nerved gunslingers. Recall the sequence of cards played on an ever-growing stack.
  • [Horror House] - House of Horrors is a haunted house card game. Players play both terrifying monsters and foolhardy explorers in a bid to see who can stay in the house the longest!
  • [The Horsemen of Buzkashi] - A card game for 2-4 adventurous horsemen which simulates the national pastime of Afghanistan.
  • [House Rules -- The Game] - A strategy game where you don’t need to be lucky, but just to get used to the continually changing rules in order to win.

[I]

  • [I Want Candy!] - All the fun of a pinata, with none of the screaming, accidental concussions, or clean-up. For two to six hyperactive greed-crazed kids (or kids at heart).
  • [Indiana Jones Card Game] - Welcome to the exciting world of Indiana Jones. The player with the most Artefacts when the last card is drawn, wins the game. This is an unauthorised, unofficial game produced merely for the entertainment of fans.
  • [Indivisible] - A card game for 2-4 players -- Think Go Fish, but with strategy...
  • [Island of D] - A free one player role playing fantasy adventure card game. No bookkeeping, no token, just you and the cards and a die and an adventure !!
  • [Island of D 2: The Shadow of Dawn] - The sequel to Island of D. A free one player Fantasy Adventure Card Game. No bookkeeping, NO DICE, just you and the cards and a token and an adventure !!

[J]

  • [Juggernauts] - You're the Commander of a massive, sprawling, dynamically reconfigurable battle platform. Your goal is to use your Juggernaut to defend your territory by incapacitating your opponent's Juggernaut so your ground forces can approach it safely and overwhelm it.
  • [Jungle] - A Bonazai Game (played entirely on a single card) for 2 players -- try to gather fruit while staying away from the snakes!

[K]

  • [Kabalam] - Play cards from your hand that equal the compounded sum of the packets in this card game based on Hebraic Cabala.
  • [Kardinal und Koenig - Das Kartenspiel] - Europe, the center of power in the 12th century. Influential Orders struggle for supremacy. By collecting Land cards, you can establish cloisters, bring advisors to council meetings, and improve your network of roads.
  • [Knatsch - Das Turnierspiel] - Once a year the king organizes a gigantic tournament. The participants argue about the favor of castle and about the profit of castles. But the life as knights is, as well known, not completely harmless. Who has too many wounds has no hope for total victory by itself. The player with most points of fame wins the tournament.

[L]

  • [Leviathan] - If I tell you Leviathan is a cross between 'Go Fish' and a non-collectible 'Magic: the Gathering', you will instantly know pretty much everything you need to know about this game.
  • [Liar!] - Try to guess the card in the middle of the table -- but don't get caught lying! The winner of the About.com: 2005 Deduction Game Design Competition.
  • [Loser] - Players will pick up and lay out cards, attempting to match four or five cards of the same value. If a player manages to do so, and secretly communicates it to his partner, they win the round.
  • [Loser's Game] - A trick-taking game for 3 or more players that favors the underdog.
  • [LOST: The Card Game] - Based on the hit ABC TV show LOST, you are one of the survivors of the ill-fated Oceanic flight 815 which crash-landed on an island in the pacific. All players must carry out events to discover the secrets of the mysterious island.
  • [The Lost Pueblo of Doctor Green] - Someone has stolen the Pueblo! Can you guess who it is? A simple card-passing game with a strong bluffing element.
  • [Lunch Rush] - The players are competing fast-food franchises in a food court. Each player must first entice a customer to eat in her restaurant and then feed that customer to his particular satisfaction. If you can't feed a customer to his satisfaction, you lose points.

[M]

  • [Magic Spell] - A combination of Concentration and Scrabble, set in a 'magician's school'. For three or four students of the mystical arts.
  • [Maze of Good & Bad] - A solitaire card game not unlike those 'Choose your own adventure' game books -- explore the maze with single player mode, or duke it out in a two-player Duel Battle! Choose from 13 possible characters, good and bad!
  • [Mental Disorder] - Imagine yourself, an eccentric psychopath, being diagnosed with schizophrenia and having the opportunity to submit to toxic lifetime maintenance medication every day for the rest of your life.
  • [Mini Mao] - A simple but rapidly-inflating card game for three or more players, in which the winner of each round is allowed to add a new rule to the game. All such rules are kept as closely-guarded secrets, however, and their effects must be deduced by the other players through observation and experimentation.
  • [Mitchell: The Card Game] - The adventures of a boozy, puffy-faced detective... Will Mitchell's tireless technique and bottomless hunger find you guilty? Or will you be fortunate enough to fly under his immense, sloppy radar? Only clever cardplay and a sense of humor will keep you safe... from Mitchell.
  • [Mysteres] - Three to eight players compete among themselves in order to find the solution of a famous 'mystere'. The treasure of Templars, the secret of Abbee Sauniere, the Sacred Grail, the mistery of Sphynx, Atlantis, Mu, etc. etc. All most famous great misteries are present.

[N]

  • [Neptune Ruler of the Sea] - Will you get the crow? Or perhaps the trident? Both will help you collect cards in this unusual card game for 3-8 people.
  • [Nitro] - A free card game about FORMULA 1 (F1) racing for 2+ players. The more the players, the more exciting the play will be.

[P]

  • [Pass The Ewe] - A relatively simple five-suited card game for three to six players and a highly-contested female sheep. You vie with your opponents for control of the ewe by bidding like-suited cards from your hand. The more heavily-contested the ewe is, the more points you get for claiming it, creating an interesting approach-avoidance tension when you’re actively pursuing the ewe.
  • [Path of Pharaohs] - As a rite of passage, young pharaohs seek to build new pyramids at the 13 locations of ancient ruins starting in southern Egypt winding their way to the to the Northern point of the nation near Alexandria.
  • [PerkyGoth] - A game of social balance for 2 to 4 players. End the game with the highest average Perky and Goth rating and the smallest difference between the two.
  • [Pocket Rocket Racers] - The first in a series of games that can be carried in your wallet! This is a wild rocket race across your tabletop!
  • [Pokino] - An odd fusion of rummy and dominoes for two or more players.
  • [Prisoner Cell Block H Card Game] - Be the first to get all your inmates out of prison. This is an unauthorised, unofficial game produced merely for the entertainment of fans.
  • [Punch!] - Will you land your carefully planned punches on target? Will you be able to block your opponent's punches? Will you be able to outbluff your rival? Can you knock him or her out before the end of the match?

[R]

  • [Rebellion] - A 2 player card game of strategy, betting, and intrigue. Each player represents the leader of a war-torn nation in the midst of a civil war.
  • [Red Dwarf: The Card Game] - Based on the long-running British sitcom, the card game translates the core of the show - adventuring to avoid boredom - into a two player icon-matching race.
  • [Renaissance Man] - Are you and one to three other multi-talented friends as nifty as my friend Ben? Play Renaissance Man and find out!
  • [Renfield] - Mmm, Bugs. You can't eat just one. Renfield is what the Gravediggers of Parts Unknown play for money, when they're not scavenging body parts for Science. It's a gambling game about parts, tools, gravestones, and bugs. Yummy, delicious bugs.
  • [Richthofen] - Richthofen is a WWI Air Combat Card Game. You play the part of a famous fighter pilot ace, taking to the skies to engage your enemy in the life and death struggle of air combat.
  • [The RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology Card Game] - The RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology has created a set of game cards illustrating basic developmental biology concepts.
  • [Ringmaster] - This game recreates the strategic battles between the good and evil armies of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth. The battle mechanism is based on the play of special cards. No dice are used.
  • [Road Cycling Tour] - A road cycling simulation intended to be flexible enough to simulate any multi-stage road cycling event.
  • [Royal Ace-assin] - Face cards are royal figureheads. Numbered cards are influential members of the royal court. The Aces are royal assassins. There are 3 "years" of play. At the end of the 3 years, the assassins are sent out.
  • [Rungs] - Far away, in the land of Elm, there is a majestic tree reaching up to the clouds. Legend has it that he who successfully reaches the top of this giant will gain untold fortunes and become ruler of a vast unknown land.
  • [Russian Civil War] - A free historical card game simulating the Russian Civil War. One player is the Red/Communist, the other player is the White/Tsarist.

[S]

  • [S-P-O-N-G-E: Fight the Evil] - In the game, each player is a SPONGE Historian, helping out on an investigation in a Cthulu-esque world. The Historian position at SPONGE is often a short-lived one. The object of the game is to last longer than any of your fellow Historians.
  • [Sherbie vs. The Silverfish] - A light-hearted game of insecticide and stress for three to five players. Amass an army of silverfish and send them to torment Sherbie, or grab a paper towel and some bug spray and attempt to defeat the insectile menace.
  • [Shift] - A quick game of shifting and swapping cards for three or more players.
  • [Shrine] - A playing card game in which the objective is to remove all cards from the other player’s Shrine. During the play of the game, players may add cards to their Shrine, remove cards from the other player’s Shrine and play special cards and combos to help them win the game.
  • [Sloppy Seconds] - A trick-taking game where the object is to score the second most number of points in each suit. Also, the secord suit to be broken in in each hand is the trump suit.
  • [Solarii] - You lead one of the Nation of Solarii. Your goal is at the same time to be the only master of some planets, and also to share other planets with your opponents.
  • [Star Wars: Stolen Plans Card Game] - Players must acquire, and then keep possession of, the droid (R2 unit card), which is carrying secret plans. The player with this card when the deck has gone wins the game. This is an unauthorised, unofficial game produced merely for the entertainment of fans.
  • [Stocking Stuffers] - A rummy-type game pesented as a Christmas present to the gaming community for Christmas 2004.
  • [Stratelite] - The goal of this card game is to collect ore. To do this, one has to invest in ore exploitation and various other constructions (defense and attack ships or technologies) on randomly acquired satellites.
  • [Soul Influence] - Take on the role of a recruiter for Heaven or Hell in this card game of soul acquisition!
  • [Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo: The Card Game] - A free card game about the famous computer game for 2 players. Fight for victory using your favourite player: Blanka, Guile, Balrog and all the others.
  • [Symbiote] - An organism-swapping card game for three or four players. Object: To end the game with the most points in symbiotic pairs and royal symbiotes, ideally while hosting the symbiote. Keeping control of the symbiote makes it easier to gather royal and paired symbiotes.

[T]

  • [die Tafelrunde] - Draco leads 'die Tafelrunde.' He shares out the incomes of the daily adventures. Therefore all heroes try to be his favourites.
  • [TaleSpin: The Card Game] - A fan-created game based on the Disney animated cartoon. Can you be the first to deliver your cargo and claim the title of Cape Suzette's fastest shipping company? Or are you planning on stealing it all to increase the wealth and legend of the Sky Pirates?
  • [Technopoly] - A game for two or more players, Technopoly sees robot workforces inventing and building machines, discovering and mining the raw materials required to construct and fuel them, and trading both machinery and materials with other organisations.
  • [Teotlatolli - The council of the gods] - Representing the antagonistic forces of the Aztec cosmos, Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca, the players have to get the other gods on their side in the council of the gods.
  • [The Things] - A game for three or (ideally) more players, and simulates the paranoid members of an antarctic research facility being overrun by - or conquering - an invasive shapeshifting, human-killing alien.
  • [Towers of Wyoming] - I used to play Lincoln Logs like this: Build towers just to knock them down with two to four players. Object: To construct a Tower of cards—a pile containing only one suit—faster than the other players, or to be the last player in the game.
  • [Trolly Car] - A game for 2-6 players in which two trolley lines compete to be the first to cross contested intersections.
  • [Trumplestiltskin] - A game for three to four (five?) players and a Pinochle deck.

[U]

  • [Uncontrolled Squid] - Who’s afraid of the big, bad squid? I’m sure you know two to eight (or even more) players who aren’t. Object: Establish your supremacy over all other squid cults by retaining the favor of the Squid Totem for three rounds.
  • [The Unnamed Game] - A game in three phases – resource gathering, trading, and creation – for three to five players. Gather resources to purchase FX to help your workers create Constructs. The player with the most Constructs at the end of the game wins.
  • [Up and Over] - A quick card game (similar to Cribbage) of summing and limits for two to five players.

[V]

  • [Vamanos] - A speedy game for 2 or more players. Players will race to make scoring sets of five cards by combining pictures and colors in different ways.
  • [The Venture] - There are many different Events that can occur in the Kingdom of Somerset. Your goal is to build Factions of Characters at the game's three main Locations in order to complete those Events.

[Y]

  • [Yukk!] - The object is to clean your plate first. But watch out for other players switiching plates, feeding the dog, and getting your parents upset.


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