Summary:

Chambers Card Games for Families explains how to play more than 50 family card games. Ranging from slap-jack and snap to patience and pontoon, the games are highly entertaining as well as quick and easy to learn. The book includes simple games that children can play on their own, as well as more intricate games for the whole family, and is ideal for players of any age and experience.

With clear descriptions, helpful illustrations and useful tips, Chambers Card Games for Families is the essential companion for hours of family fun.

• More than 50 fun card games with easy-to-follow instructions and illustrated examples
• Ideal for families playing together or for children to play on their own
• Features a variety of games for both beginners and experienced players to enjoy

Table of Contents:
Accordion
Bango
Beggar My Neighbour
Bismarck
Casino
Cheat
Chinese Ten
Clock
Commerce
Crazy Eights
Cribbage
Cucumber
Demon
Fan Tan
Farmer
Fifty-One
Go Fish
Golf
Gops
Jubilee
Klondike
Knaves
Knockout Whist
Linger Longer
Menagerie
My Ship Sails
Newmarket
Nomination Whist
Obstacle Race
Old Maid
Omnibus Hearts
Pelmanism
Pig
Pip-Pip!
Pontoon
President
Rams
Ranter Go Round
Rockaway
Rolling Stone
Romanian Whist
Rummy
Scotch Whist
Sequence
Sixty-Six
Slap-Jack
Snap
Snip-Snap-Snorem
Spade the Gardener
Stealing Bundles
Switch
Thirty-One
Twenty-Nine
War

About the Author(s):
Peter Arnold is an author and editor, most of whose 50 or so books concern sports and games. Several of his books are on table games, including some on individual card games, and he has written three books on gambling, one of which was described by a New York author as 'the best history of gambling'. He is the author of four other Chambers card games books.

Readership:
families, children, teachers