Do you turn down invites to poker games because you don't know the rules? Then Card Games Properly Explained is the book for you. Arnold Marks's handbook will teach you not only what you need to know to play the game, but how to play to win. He will teach you Whist and its variations: Solo and Napoleon; Poker and its variations like Seven Card Stud and Deuces Wild; Cribbage; Rummy-the forefather of Gin Rummy and Canasta, among others; and more. Written...

Determined to secure her mentor and lover's parole by fixing an illegal card game, career criminal Crissa Stone plots a daring robbery that goes wrong when one of her crew shoots a player with connections to an equally desperate hit man.

In the future, human civilization has been destroyed. Paradox travels back in time to prevent the destruction of his timeline from occurring by eliminating the source of that destruction: Duel Monsters and its creator, Maximillion Pegasus.

A collection of math tricks using the magic of numbers in which the marvelous Professor Picanumba can seemingly predict random events in dozens of numerical exercises. Includes answers at the end.

"A group biography of seven enduring and beloved games, and the story of why-and how-we play them. Checkers, Backgammon, Chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and Bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and historical importance, the delightful arcana of their rules, and the behavioral design that make them pleasurable. Roeder introduces thrilling competitors,...

Includes instructions and rules for over thirty card games, such as Go Fish, Old Maid, Blackjack, Racing Demon, and Solitaire.

After an incident shatters their family, eleven-year-old Samantha Littlefield and her older sister, Caitlin, are sent to live in rural Oregon with an aunt they've never met. Sam wants nothing more than to go back to the way thing were ... before she spoke up. When Aunt Vicky gives Sam a mysterious card game called A Game of Fox & Squirrels, Sam falls in love with the animal characters, especially the charming trickster fox, Ashander. Then one day...

A step-by-step guide to playing the most popular Poker game around. Played with a typical 52-card pack, Texas Hold 'Em is now extremely popular not just in casinos and card rooms, but also on the Internet and at home.