This site features all your favorite traditional and family card games. You can learn the rules to new card games, download card game software, and play card games online. You can also learn a bit about playing cards themselves, from history to collecting.

The House Of Cards began as a BBS in 1994, and earned a loyal following among local Kansas City patrons, as well as a few hardy long-distance folk. In 1995 I moved the House Of Cards to the Internet as a personal homepage, dropping the BBS soon thereafter. In the early days the site was concerned primarily with solitaire, but in 1997, when I launched a new site called Solitaire Central, the focus of the House Of Cards broadened to include all sorts of card games and card game information.   More detail...