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Such games are also created to capitalize on the popularity of other forms of entertainment, such as Pokémon and Marvel Comics which both have had CCGs created around them.

Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006 DS

Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006 DS (ドラえもん のび太の恐竜 2006 DS) is the card battle game for the Nintendo DS system.


1984 Topps

Game maker Milton Bradley issued a set of 30 cards for its Championship Baseball game.

Al Giardello

Gee enjoys cooking and is an excellent Hearts player, as revealed in the episode "All Through the House".

Bang Attack

The game was originally released under the name Bang!, with the name later changed to Bang Attack to avoid a naming conflict with the existing card game Bang!.

Big Two

Big Two (also known as Deuces and other names, see below; Mandarin: 大老二; pinyin: dà lǎo èr; Cantonese: 鋤大D; jyutping: co4 daai6 di2) is a card game similar to the game of Asshole, Crazy Eights, Bullshit, Winner, and other shedding games.

China Qiyuan

Zhongguo Qiyuan (Simplified Chinese: 中国棋院) is an official agency responsible for board games and card games such as go, bridge, chess and Chinese chess affairs under the All-China Sports Federation of the People's Republic of China.

Kari Mannerla

Kari Mannerla (January 9, 1930, Helsinki, Finland – July 12, 2006, Helsinki, Finland) was a Finnish board and card game designer and advertising agency executive.

Killer Bunnies and the Quest for the Magic Carrot

Killer Bunnies and the Quest for the Magic Carrot is a noncollectible card game created by Jeff Bellinger and graphic design/illustrations by Jonathan Young.

Las Vegas Cool Hand

Other varieties of play for the solitaire round include Elevens, Calculation (also known as Broken Intervals), and Monte Carlo (also known as Weddings and Double and Quits).

Nexus Editrice

Nexus produced board games, role-playing games, card games, miniature games, published magazines devoted to games, and licensed to the Italian market games from many major international games publishers, such as Fantasy Flight Games, Games Workshop, Fasa and Kosmos.

Numenera

Thunderstone Advance: Numenera by AEG, an expansion to the Thunderstone deck-building card game, set in the world of Numenera.

Out of the Box Publishing

The artistic director and one of the founders of Out of the Box Publishing, John Kovalic, was also the illustrator for Munchkin and Dork Tower.

Patience sorting

Patience sorting is a sorting algorithm, based on a solitaire card game, that has the property of being able to efficiently compute the length of a longest increasing subsequence in a given array.

Puzzle Strike: Bag of Chips

Puzzle Strike: Bag of Chips (often shortened to Puzzle Strike) is a designer dedicated deck card game created by David Sirlin, inspired by Dominion and Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo.

Three-Dragon Ante

Three-Dragon Ante (ISBN 0-7869-4072-7) is a card game developed by Rob Heinsoo, and published by Wizards of the Coast in November 2005.

Tim Bourke

Tim Bourke is an Australian bridge player, author and internationally renowned collector and composer of bridge hands having composed most of the hands in David Bird's "Abbot" series since 1996.

Uno Attack

Uno Attack (called Uno Extreme in the United Kingdom and Canada) is one of many variations on the popular Mattel card game Uno.


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1235 in poetry

Fujiwara no Teika, editor, Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, an anthology of 100 Japanese poems, each by a different poet; is compiled about this year; the popularity of the anthology has endured to the present day, and a Japanese card game, Uta-garuta, uses cards with the poems printed on it

Berkeley John Talbot Levett

Levett was drawn into the scandal after a night in which Sir William Gordon-Cumming, 4th Baronet, a fellow officer from the Scots Guards, was accused of cheating at Baccarat, a card game.

Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack

FreeCell - a solitaire card game that is now bundled with Windows

Blackstar Warrior

The story takes place on an unnamed casino planet owned by Lando, the Millennium Falcon (before Lando lost it to Han Solo in a card game), and on board the Imperial Star Destroyer Malfeasance.

Carol Heyer

She is known for her work on the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering.

Chaos: The Battle of Wizards

Chaos was written by Julian Gollop, based on his 1982 design for a traditional card game, itself inspired by the early Games Workshop board game Warlock.

Concan, Texas

The name "Concan" may have originated from the card game Conquian.

Daifugō

In Fruits Basket, a popular manga and anime series, the characters in the story often play the card game with each other, emphasizing the fun social aspects of the game.

Decoding Reality

Vedral uses an Italo Calvino philosophical story about a tarot-like card game as the kernel for his metaphor of conscious life arriving in medias res to a pre-existing contextual reality.

Dilbert

Corporate Shuffle by Richard Garfield — 1997; A Dilbert-branded card game similar to Wizard of the Coast's The Great Dalmuti and the drinking game President

Dragon Poker

Dragon Poker is a fictional card game from the "MythAdventures" series by Robert Asprin, featured primarily in the book Little Myth Marker.

Franz Vohwinkel

Vohwinkel drew the cover art for the book Dataware (1998) for TSR's Alternity game, and illustrated cards for the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game.

Grey Griffins

Olaf Iverson: like a grandfather to the Grey Griffins, Olaf, commonly known as Iver, is their mentor and teacher, teaching them the ways of the Templar through the card game referred to as Round Table

Haruki Nakamura

He played in all three of the Ravens' post-season games, and in the AFC wild card game he intercepted a pass from Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Matt Cassel.

Heads and Tails

Heads And Tails, a solitaire card game which uses two decks of playing cards.

Howard Scott Warshaw

The first, The Complete Book of PAN, is a guide to the card game of the same name.

Jacoby

Jacoby transfer, a convention used in the card game contract bridge

Jitte

In the card game Magic: The Gathering, a Jitte is referenced in Betrayers of Kamigawa (see Umezawa's Jitte).

John Van Buren

He was rumored to have lost $5000, and with it, his father's home, Lindenwald as well as a mistress, the very popular Elena America Vespucci, descendent of Amerigo Vespucci, to George Parish of Ogdensburg, New York in a card game at the LeRay Hotel in Evans Mills, New York.

Kazuki Takahashi

Originally intended as a one-shot in the manga's episodic introduction of new games, the game was named "Magic and Wizards" as a reference to the card game Magic: The Gathering and its publishing company Wizards of the Coast (the card game's name was changed to "Duel Monsters" in the anime adaptations).

Kent Hull

One more year of joy and frustration occurred in 1992, when the Bills won the AFC east division title again, beating the Houston Oilers in a wild-card game of the 1992–93 NFL playoffs, the Pittsburgh Steelers in the divisional round, the Miami Dolphins in the AFC championship game, but losing to the Jimmie Johnson-led Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl XXVII.

LeRay Hotel

It was the site of the card game in which presidential son John Van Buren lost his mistress, Elena America Vespucci, a descendant of Amerigo Vespucci, to George Parish II of Ogdensburg, New York.

LTK

Legends of the Three Kingdoms, a Chinese popular card game based on the Three Kingdoms period of China and the semi-fictional novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms (ROTK).

Magi-Nation Duel

The game was originally designed as a bridge between Pokémon and Magic: The Gathering or Yu-Gi-Oh! the classic trading card game.

Make a Million

Make-A-Million, a card game created by Parker Brothers and released in 1935

Michael Long

Mike Long (born 1974), Magic: The Gathering card game player

Motorola i860

It also features a version of the classic card game Spades, developed by Skava.

My Friend Lefterakis

One evening, while in the middle of a card game with his friend Thanassis (Giorgos Konstantinou), he starts explaining his scam to him; they are interrupted however by the maid, who announces that Lefterakis has just arrived from Patras.

Power Rangers Collectible Card Game

The Power Rangers Collectible Card Game is an American trading card game created by Bandai based upon Saban's Power Rangers Series television franchise.

Romas Kukalis

Kukalis also illustrated seven cards for the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game.

Snip Snap Snorem

Snipp, Snapp, Snorum, Hej and Basalorum - five villages in Skellefteå Municipality, Västerbotten County, Sweden, named after the same childish rhyme as this card game

Spike Owen

In 2003, the Spike Owen Memorial Ballpark in Bay Village, Ohio and the site of several games of MLB Showdown, a card game created by Wizards of the Coast, was named after him by Michael Eller, a former Bay Village resident who is both a fan of Owen and an avid Showdown player.

Stephen Daniele

He has also produced artwork for other games including Extreme Vengeance (Archangel Entertainment), Sovereign Stone (Sovereign Press, Inc), and Hollow Earth Expedition (Exile Studios), and illustrated cards for the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game.

The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game

The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game (a.k.a. LOTR TCG) is a collectible card game produced by Decipher, Inc. Released November 2001, it is based on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy and the J. R. R. Tolkien novel on which the films were based.

Three card poker

As a result it's as unclear as the origins of poker, but includes the 16th century British card game of Brag.

Thunee

Ramsamy Naidoo, the sardar at the sugar cane estate of De Charmoy and Angel at La Mercy on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast, and his friends are credited with inventing the exciting six-card game during 1872.

Todd Kalis

Under the leadership of new head coach Dennis Green the Vikings went on to earn a playoff spot in the NFC Wild Card game versus the Washington Redskins.

Top Pot Doughnuts

In January 2011 Seattle mayor Mike McGinn had bet (among various items) a dozen Top Pot maple bars with New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu over the NFL NFC Wild card game.

Top Trumps Adventures: Dogs and Dinosaurs

Top Trumps Adventures: Dogs and Dinosaurs is a video game for the DS, PC and PlayStation 2 consoles, based on the popular Top Trumps card game.

Top Trumps Adventures: Horror and Predators

Top Trumps Adventures: Horror and Predators is a video game for the DS, PC and PlayStation 2 consoles, based on the popular Top Trumps card game.

Tyler Jacobson

Jacobson is best known as a fantasy artist, due to his significant contributions of art to Magic: The Gathering trading card game cards, package art, and promotional materials, as well as character design and game art for Dungeons & Dragons.

Unexploded Cow

Unexploded Cow is a card game by Cheapass Games in which the objective is to blow up unexploded bombs in France with mad cows from Britain, earning money in the process.

Warpcon

signed first-edition or pre-publication books, slots to appear as drawn by John Kovalic in a Steve Jackson Games card game or in Dork Tower, rare collectible cards, Jayne Cobb's hat (as worn by Adam Baldwin from the TV show Firefly), and even the first ever My Little Cthulhu toy and more are among the things sold in auctions.

Win32s

Win32s included an implementation of the card game FreeCell as an example application, a couple of years before the game became famous with its inclusion in Windows 95.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game

Due to the inspirations for some of the cards, such as ancient mythology and Japanese folklore, the card game was a potential target for religious advocacy groups.