Card Games for Two Players

Name	Category	Complexity	Duration	Materials
Ecarte	🃏 Card	Medium	15-25 min	🃏 32-card deck (standard deck minus 2-6)
Ecarté	🃏 Card	Medium	15-25 minutes	🃏 32-card piquet deck (standard deck with 2-6 removed)
Egyptian Rat Screw	🃏 Card	Easy	10-30 minutes	🃏 Standard 52-card deck
Escoba	🃏 Card	Easy	15-25 min	🃏 Spanish 40-card deck (or standard deck without 8s, 9s, 10s)
Exposure	🃏 Card	Medium	15-30 minutes	🃏 Standard 52-card deck (use only 9-A) 📝 Scoring track or paper
Ferbli	🃏 Card	Hard	30-40 min	🃏 33-card Austrian Tyrolean deck
Five Card Draw Simple, classic poker for everyone	🃏 Card	Easy	10-30 min	🃏 Standard 52-card deck 🔴 Poker chips
GOPS	🃏 Card	Medium	10-15 minutes	🃏 Standard 52-card deck (use 3 suits: Spades, Clubs, Diamonds)
GOPS (Game of Pure Strategy)	🃏 Card	Easy	10-15 minutes	🃏 Standard 52-card deck
German Whist	🃏 Card	Medium	15-25 minutes	🃏 Standard 52-card deck
Gin Rummy	🃏 Card	Medium	20-45 minutes	🃏 Standard 52-card deck 📝 Paper and pencil for scoring
Gnav	🃏 Card	Easy	15-25 min	🃏 Standard 52-card deck
Go Fish	🃏 Card	Very Easy	10-15 minutes	🃏 Standard 52-card deck
Go Stop	🃏 Card	Hard	30-60 min	🃏 Hwatu (Korean flower cards) - 48 cards
Golf (Card Game)	🃏 Card	Easy	20-40 minutes	🃏 Standard 52-card deck 📝 Paper for scoring
Golf (Four-Card)	🃏 Card	Very Easy	20-30 min	🃏 Standard 52-card deck
Guiñote	🃏 Card	Medium	20-30 min	🃏 Spanish 40-card deck (or standard deck without 8s, 9s, 10s)
HORSE Master five games in one session	🃏 Card	Very Hard	60+ min	🃏 Standard 52-card deck 🔴 Poker chips
Haggis	🃏 Card	Hard	30-45 minutes	🃏 Haggis deck (or modified standard deck)
Handjass	🃏 Card	Hard	25-35 min	🃏 36-card Swiss Jass deck (or 6-A from standard deck)
Heads-Up Texas Hold'em	🃏 Card	Hard	15-60 minutes per session	🃏 Standard 52-card deck 🔴 Poker chips or substitute
Hola	🃏 Card	Very Easy	15-25 min	🃏 Standard 52-card deck
Honeymoon Bridge	🃏 Card	Medium	20-30 minutes	🃏 Standard 52-card deck
I Doubt It	🃏 Card	Very Easy	10-20 min	🃏 Standard 52-card deck
Jam	🃏 Card	Medium	15-30 minutes	🃏 Standard 52-card deck
James Bond	🃏 Card	Very Easy	5-10 min	🃏 Standard 52-card deck
Jokers (Rummy Variant)	🃏 Card	Easy	10-20 min	🃏 Standard 52-card deck 📦 2 Jokers
Kings in the Corner	🃏 Card	Easy	15-20 minutes	🃏 Standard 52-card deck
Klaberjass	🃏 Card	Hard	30-45 min	🃏 32-card deck (standard deck minus 2-6)
Koper	🃏 Card	Hard	30-60 min	🃏 Standard 52-card deck 🪙 24 checkers or coins (12 each in two colors)
Lamarckian Poker	🃏 Card	Hard	30-45 minutes	🃏 Standard 52-card deck 🔴 Poker chips
Le Truc	🃏 Card	Medium	15-30 minutes	🃏 32-card deck (standard deck with 2-6 removed)
Lost Cities	🃏 Card	Easy	20-30 minutes	📦 Lost Cities game box
Marjolet	🃏 Card	Medium	20-30 min	🃏 32-card deck (7s through Aces)
No Limit Omaha Four cards with unlimited action	🃏 Card	Very Hard	20-90 min	🃏 Standard 52-card deck 🔴 Poker chips
Noddy	🃏 Card	Medium	15-25 min	🃏 Standard 52-card deck
Ocean's Eleven	🃏 Card	Easy	15-25 min	🃏 Two standard 52-card decks
Old Maid	🃏 Card	Very Easy	5-10 min	🃏 Standard deck or Old Maid deck
Omaha Hi-Lo Two ways to win every pot	🃏 Card	Very Hard	20-60 min	🃏 Standard 52-card deck 🔴 Poker chips
Omaha Hold'em Four cards mean more possibilities	🃏 Card	Hard	15-60 min	🃏 Standard 52-card deck 🔴 Poker chips
Open-Face Chinese Poker Place cards one by one, no take-backs	🃏 Card	Hard	10-30 min	🃏 Standard 52-card deck 🔴 Poker chips
Panjpar	🃏 Card	Easy	15-25 min	🃏 Standard 52-card deck
Penneech	🃏 Card	Hard	30-45 min	🃏 48-card Pinochle deck (or 2x 24-card deck)
Perlaggen	🃏 Card	Hard	30-45 min	🃏 33-card Tyrolean/Perlaggen deck
Pineapple Hold'em with an extra starting card	🃏 Card	Medium	15-60 min	🃏 Standard 52-card deck 🔴 Poker chips
Pineapple Open Face Chinese Poker Three cards per turn, discard one - faster OFC action	🃏 Card	Very Hard	20-30 min	-
Pinochle (Two-Handed)	🃏 Card	Medium	30-45 minutes	🃏 Pinochle deck (48 cards) or two standard decks modified
Piquet	🃏 Card	Very Hard	30-60 minutes	🃏 32-card Piquet deck (or standard deck with 2-6 removed)
Pishe Pasha	🃏 Card	Easy	15-25 min	🃏 Standard 52-card deck
Pishti	🃏 Card	Easy	20-30 min	🃏 Standard 52-card deck

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