The card game Accordion is also known as Methuselah, Tower of Babel, or Idle Year (presumably because of the amount of time you need to keep playing the game to win it).Accordion is a charmingly straightforward game that can easily seduce you into assuming that it must be easy to solve. Be warned — we've never known anyone who has completed a game of Accordion!

Poker Patience is, in theory, an undemanding Solitaire card game. It takes only a minute or two to play, and you can approach the game frivolously or seriously.To start, you need to know the ranks of Poker hands (in other words, what beats what). In ascending order, the ranks are as follows: One pair: Two of a kind Two pair: Such as two 5s and two 10s Three of a kind: Also known as trips Straight: Five cards in consecutive order; for example, ace through 5 or 7 to jack Flush: Five cards of the same suit Full house: Combination of three of a kind and a pair Four of a kind: Also known as quads Straight flush: A straight with all the cards in the same suit Aces can be either high or low — your choice.

Before you start enjoying the various card games of Solitaire, you need to know a little technical vocabulary. After you build your own foundation of Solitaire knowledge, you can begin to explore the many variations of the game. When you initially deal the cards, the pattern is known as a layout or tableau. The layout can consist of rows (horizontal lines of cards), columns (vertical lines), or piles of cards (a compact heap, frequently of face-down cards, sometimes with the top card face-up).

One of the main variations on the card game Oh Hell! is called Romanian Whist, for the surprisingly good reason that it comes from Romania. In fact, the game is called plain old Whist in that country.To play Romanian Whist, you need the following: At least three players: You can play with up to eight players.

Oh Hell! is based on taking tricks. During gameplay, players take turns putting a card face-up on the table. The person who plays the highest card wins and collects all the played cards — one trick. The winner of the trick plays the first card to start the next trick. The process continues until all the cards play out.

To play the card game Fan Tan well, you need to familiarize yourself with a few essential elements of strategy. First and foremost, if you only have one card that you can play, you don't have much choice but to play it. Your Fan Tan strategy starts when you have more than one card you can play.Assuming you have more than one playable card, look first at the suits in which you hold end cards — the aces and kings in each suit.

All your friends will want to join in when you play the card game Fan Tan, which is where Double-Deck Fan Tan comes in — it's a great game for large groups, when a single deck leaves you with too small a hand to start with.To play Double-Deck Fan Tan, you need the following: Seven or more players Two standard decks of 52 cards without jokers A pencil and paper for scoring A big table and plenty of chairs You play Double-Deck Fan Tan just as you play Fan Tan.

The objective of Fan Tan is relatively uncomplicated. You deal out the entire deck of cards among the players, and you spend the game trying to get rid of all your cards before the other players can manage the feat.You get rid of cards by adding them to an already existing run, or sequence of cards in a suit, which builds up during the play.