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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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1. Board Game: UNO [Average Rating:5.30 Overall Rank:7570]
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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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2. Board Game: Pit [Average Rating:6.42 Overall Rank:903]
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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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And in the newest version that I own the highest value commodity is Chocolate. Yes higher than gold, silver, or platinum.
 
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3. Board Game: Magic: The Gathering [Average Rating:7.34 Overall Rank:134]
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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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4. Board Game: Mille Bornes [Average Rating:5.69 Overall Rank:4139]
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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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I played this quite a bit as a boy with my family.
 
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  • Posted Wed Aug 22, 2007 4:21 pm
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Which came first: Mille Bornes or Touring?
 
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  • Posted Wed Aug 22, 2007 5:14 pm
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Windopaene wrote:
Which came first: Mille Bornes or Touring?
check the games pages. Touring is a hundred years old.
 
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  • Posted Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:39 pm
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5. Board Game: Bohnanza [Average Rating:7.13 Overall Rank:199]
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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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6. Board Game: Happy Families [Average Rating:4.33 Overall Rank:7202]
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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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I think it's also spawned a dish at most Chinese restaurants in America.
 
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7. Board Game: Munchkin [Average Rating:6.03 Overall Rank:2023]
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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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Ah, Kudzu... a kick-ass Magic card back in the day. Land destruction ftw.

http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/search_result_card.asp?id=1166
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  • Posted Wed Aug 22, 2007 7:48 pm
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I hear you. Kudzu, a very classy card indeed. thumbsup
 
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  • Posted Fri Aug 24, 2007 8:57 pm
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8. Board Game: Raj [Average Rating:6.49 Overall Rank:1080]
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Was this the first game to use blind bidding? I know it predates 6 nimmt!
 
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It's an old Indian traditional game as far as I remember, so yes, I'd say it could be one of the first.
 
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  • Posted Thu Aug 23, 2007 4:13 am
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9. Board Game: Rook [Average Rating:6.38 Overall Rank:1186]
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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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First game I thought of.
 
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  • Posted Wed Aug 22, 2007 7:23 pm
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I was scrolling down this list wondering "Where is Rook?"
 
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  • Posted Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:23 pm
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10. Board Game: Phase 10 [Average Rating:5.13 Overall Rank:7651]
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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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11. Board Game: World of Warcraft Trading Card Game [Average Rating:6.73 Overall Rank:858]
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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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Frank Jaeger (Amigo Spiele) posted in the Spielbox-Forum that they sold 1,3 million copies of Category 5 - and that was in the year 2002... surprise

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
 
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I think that I'd add Dungeoneer, Meuterer / Verrater (or Citadels, but those came first) and Battleground Fantasy Warfare on the list for the sake of innovation.
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  • Posted Wed Aug 22, 2007 3:12 pm
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Ok, 6 Nimmt and Halli Galli both definitely make it to the list.
 
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