Games, Hobbies, and Pastimes

We have a large quantity of information about games on our website.  This index should include links to primary topics covered; there may, of course, be sub-topics.

Hobbies

• Book Collecting
• Hobbies: An introductory essay
• Stamp Collecting

Playing Cards

• List of Playing Cards, with illustrations
  • 1864 Poker Deck
  • Advertising Playing Cards
  • American Playing Cards - patriotic deck
  • Art-Related Playing Cards
  • Bibliography of Playing Cards
  • Bicycle Playing Cards
  • Braille Playing Cards
  • Bridge Decks
  • Civil War Illuminated Poker Deck
  • Customized Playing Cards
  • Four-Color Playing Card Decks
  • KEM Cards - proper care
  • Noble House Playing Cards
  • Piatnik - a history of the card manufacturer
  • Playing Card Divination - telling fortunes with standard playing cards
  • Playing Card Sizes - difference between poker and bridge cards
  • Playing Cards - some examples, more or less randomly selected

 

Card Games

• Poker
  • Dead Man's Hand
  • Poker Books
  • Life Lessons from Poker
• Authors
• Bridge
  • Bridge Scorepads
• Canasta
• Five Hundred - six-handed
• Flinch
• Other Popular Card Games Played With Standard Playing Cards
  • Card Games - An older list, but folks still use this page . . . 
• Pokeno

 

Mystery Party Games

• How to Host a Murder Mystery Party Games
• Murder a la Carte Mystery Games
• Teen Mystery Party Games

 

Other Games

• Bepuzzled - Listing of Mystery Party Games and Classic Mystery Jigsaw Puzzles
• Board Games
• Chess
• Jigsaw Puzzles
  • Buried Blueprints
  • Photomosaic Jigsaw Puzzles
• Party Games
• Pente
• Transformation Game