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Which are the most significant commercial card games?
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Which games belong to a list of most significant commercial card games? The criteria are fairly open: significance springs from massive sales, influential and innovative game mechanics and from being an important part of pop culture. I've started the list with few games I think are obviously in, hopefully these will give you the idea of what I'm looking for. Please add more!
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Posted Wed Aug 22, 2007 8:37 am
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Board Game: UNO
[Average Rating:5.22 Overall Rank:5238]
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Sure, Uno is just Crazy Eights, but it's certainly one of the biggest sellers when it comes to card games. Say "card game" to random people and quite a few will think of Uno.
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Board Game: Pit
[Average Rating:6.44 Overall Rank:705]
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The game's over hundred years old, still available and still fresh. If there's a pantheon of classic games, this one's definitely there.
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What other commercial card game has given birth to a huge industry and caused a similar landslide of imitators? Surely this is one of the most influential card games ever.
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Not very interesting as a game, but quite interesting as the root and source of the "take that" kind of games.
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Bohnanza is quite unlike most other card games and it has spawned a rather large array of expansions, so I'd say it just might earn a spot on the list.
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At one time this was almost ubiquitous in families in Britain (and obviously had some traction in the Empire and latterly the Commonwealth).
It has spawned both books and a TV show (both independent of each other) based upon the game.
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Many Geeks don't like it, but it's pretty popular and variations spring up like kudzu.
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Board Game: Raj
[Average Rating:6.52 Overall Rank:796]
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Was this the first game to use blind bidding? I know it predates 6 nimmt!
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Board Game: Rook
[Average Rating:6.35 Overall Rank:1007]
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This one is quite popular among casual gamers in the U.S. It's a trick taking game that I feel is eclipsed by some trick takers that you can play with a standard deck, but I guess some enjoy it's quirks.
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OK, it's just a prettied-up version of Contract Rummy, but you can usually find it right next to Uno and Rook on the end-caps at Target and WalMart.
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Perhaps the first and only card game out there that enables you to obtain in-game items for your computer game.
The 1st printing of it also sold out quickly in the end of '06
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Posted Wed Aug 22, 2007 8:27 am
Bohnanza was 'only' 400.000 copies sold and Halli Galli 2,1 million (both also in 2002 of course)
Check this post if you can read german
http://www.spielbox.de/phorum4/read.php4?f=1&i=52029&t=52029