The various types of card games include trick taking games, card exchange games, patience games, shedding or accumulating games, casino games and collectible card games. The type of card game depends upon the number of players and their interest. It is also based on the rules of game, the skill of the players and the time needed for a game.

Trick taking games are card games with differing play structure. This includes bridge, euchre, hearts, pinochle, whist and piquet. These games use the concept of trick. Each player puts one card during each trick. The different types of trick taking games are positive trick taking games, exact prediction trick taking games and final trick games. The players can take many tricks in positive trick taking games. In other trick taking games, players can take tricks on some sort of contract. Card exchange games include rummy games and card passing games. The objective is to collect a combination of cards.

Patience games consist of a single player and competitive patience game. In patience games, the player moves the cards according to specific rules. Solitaire games are single player games. The different type of solitaire games are ace of pile, freecell and concentration. Competitive games include spite and double solitaire. Gambling card games are also known as casino games. There are beatable and unbeatable types of casino games. Beatable casino games include Blackjack, poker games and video poker games. Baccarat, Roulette, 3 card poker and keno are unbeatable casino games.

The objective of a shedding game is to dispose of all cards as soon as possible. Shedding card games include crazy eights, speed and uno. The objective of an accumulation card game is to accumulate all cards as possible. This game includes seven spades, war and snap. Collectible card games are also known as customizable card games. They are played using a specially designed pack of cards. These cards follow a set of rules. The subset of these cards is available. The subset comprises starter set, theme pack and starter deck. Modern collectible card games are online games. Miscellaneous games, multi genre and fictional card games are other types of card games.