What Card Game Involves the Most Skill?

Question

What Card Game Involves the Most Skill? (In ratio to chance)

Some say poker, but im sure theres gotta be a more skill less chance one out there.

Answer 1

Omaha Hi/Lo

Answer 2

21.

Answer 3

I would say Canasta or Bridge. Some Whist games require some skill because you have to remember all the cards that have gone before, like the upper hands of Solo. Bit tricky trying to remember 40 cards that have already gone!

Answer 4

A lot of people will say bridge - but there is a family of games that English speakers tend not to have heard of and which can easily give bridge a run for its money.

OK, you might need an open mind for this one. Did you know that tarot cards were invented for playing card games? These days most of the games are played with French suited cards that you wouldn't recognize as being tarot - but, tarot they are and the old Italian trumps are still used for games in Italy, Sicily, and Switzerland.

They were created in the 15th century, commissioned as part of the celebrations for the marriage of Bianca Visconti into the Sforza family in Milan. The extra suit of cards took as its theme, a traditional Christian triumph procession of the time - possibly that which was held to celebrate Bianca's birth in 1425. Hence these cards were called trionfi, meaning triumphs, and from which we get our word trump - it was tarot that marked the invention of trumps in card games! For three hundred and fifty years the cards were used only for games.

Anyhow, these are all point-trick games. So, like bridge or spades, you take cards in tricks. However, unlike them, different cards have different point values and so it is not the number of tricks you win but the number of card points in them that matter. The games range in complexity from the very simple to the highly sophisticated that can easily give bridge a run for its money while being a whole lot easier to learn!

The French game (now the second most popular card game in France) is a good entry point and has much worth of its own. However, if you are looking for is great strategy, then these are the best:

Ottocento: an Bolognese game played in fixed partnerships - I call it the king of all card games!

Point-Tarock: Vastly underrated game, it has a real elegance to its play allowing a player to capitalise on a good hand.

Slovenian Tarock: The 3 player version!

Hungarian Tarokk: There are three games, Royal Tarock is not, as this time available in English - but I'm working on it.

This is my web site, with the rules Anglicized and terms standardised:

http://www.tarocchino.com

This is a wonderful site for card games of all sorts:

http://www.pagat.com

Answer 5

I'll say Bridge.

Answer 6

I'd say Big 2...because you only win by the certain cards u play...also meaning how wise u are

Answer 7

I would definitely have to say Sabacc.

Go here to find out more...

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sabacc

Hope this helps!

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