The ultimate card-player's companion, crammed with over 300 pages of games to provide hours of engrossing entertainment playing in groups or by yourself. A tricks section provides ways to astound your friends and family with your seemingly effortless skills. Both games and tricks cater for a range of abilities so that you can progress and expand your repertoire. Bridge, Brag, Poker, Rummy and Cribbage - all the classics are here, along with all their variations, as well as lesser known games such as Red Dog, Beleaguered Castle and Quinto. With easy-to-follow explanations for each game including their origins, rules, ranking of cards and tactics, as well as clear illustrations of sample hands, scoring systems and a full glossary of terms, you can quickly make yourself familiar with games you've never tried. Tricks include sleights and shuffling tricks, tricks with prepared packs, magic tricks and mathematical tricks. Challenge yourself and have fun no matter where you are - all you need is a pack of cards and The Card Games Bible.

If it’s in the cards, it’s in this super big dual book of card games and tricks. There are games for the family with young children, quick 10-minute games, many kinds of solitaire and variations of War, Authors, Stops, Casino, Rummy, Trump, Whist, and Hearts. For a little trickery, flip the book over and get expert instructions on all the skillful moves (controlling a card, cuts and false cuts, shuffles, sleights). Then, wow everyone with the Tick Tock Trick; mind reading; Face-up, Face-Down; and a grab bag of card magic.

With more games than you ever knew existed and as many tricks as a professional magician has up his sleeve, this super-huge collection gives you days' and days' worth of fun! Some take as little as 10 minutes, for others you'll need to master some rules first, but when you get in the swing of it you'll never put down that deck of cards. Try rummy, poker, euchre, whist, and hearts--all the basic games, with all the instructions and scoring procedures--as well as solitaire for those moments when you're alone. But, when you've got an audience, put on a show with such card capers as "I Love the Piano," where you transfer a card from one pile to another with a magical "snap" of the fingers. You won't ever want to stop playing!

Here's an excellent guidebook for people who want to learn how to perform card tricks without having to spend wearisome hours practicing. Thirteen diagrams and easy-to-follow directions provide the novice with fundamentals for successfully mastering more than 50 impressive techniques -- among them The False Shuffle, The Corner Crimp, Sensitive Finger Tips, Palming, The Glide, The Slip Force, and Reading the Pack. No special dexterity is needed to successfully complete any of these methods.

DIVSimple-to-use book gives versatile repertoire of first rate card tricks. The authors, both expert magicians, present clear explanations of basic techniques and over 100 complete tricks. 121 figures. /div