Card Games for Seven Players

This is a list of traditional card and tile games that are designed for or work well with seven players. Each game is listed just once - for alternative names see the general alphabetical index. For each game the configuration of players and the type and number of cards or tiles is listed. There is an explanation of the symbols below the table.

Game	Quantity	Configuration
Abyssinia Poker	52	individual
Aces, Straights and Flushes Poker	52	individual
Animals	52	individual
Auction Poker	52	individual
Baccarat	6x52	banker
Backstab Fish	2x52+4J	individual
Badugi	52	individual
Bitch, The Poker	52	individual
Black Mariah Poker	52	individual
Blackjack 21	6x52	banker
Bonanza Pai Gow	32	banker
Bourré	52	individual
Brag 3 card	52	individual
Brag 4 card	52	individual
Brag 5 card	52	individual
Buddha's Folly Poker	52	individual
Bullshit	52, 2x52	individual
Burro	40, 48	individual
Calcutta Horse Race	52	individual
Cancellation Hearts	2x52	individual
Candyman	52	alliance
Card Bingo	52, 2x52	individual | banker
Caribbean Poker	52	banker
Casino Hold'em Poker	52	banker
Chicago Poker	52	individual
Chicken Foot	55	individual
CHORSE Poker	52	individual
CHORSEL Poker	52	individual
Cincinnati Poker	52	individual
Clag	52	individual
Coteccio	40	individual
Courchevel poker	52	individual
Cowpie Poker	52	individual
Crazy Eights	2x52	individual
Crazy Pineapple Poker	52	individual
Crazy Pineapple Hi-Lo Poker	52	individual
Crazy Solo	35	alliance
Cuckoo	52	individual
Cucumber	52, 52+2J	individual
Cyprus	55	individual
Dakota Poker	52	individual
Dealer's Choice Poker	52	individual
Dirty Schultz Poker	52	individual
Do Ya Poker	52	individual
Earl of Coventry	52	individual
Egyptian Ratscrew	52	individual
Eight Game Mix Poker	52	individual
Eleusis	3x52, 4x52	individual
Elevator Poker	52	individual
Farmers' Rummy	4x52+8J	individual
Faro	52	banker
Ferbli	32	individual
Five Card Stud Poker	52	individual
Five Card Stud High-Low Poker	52	individual
Five Card Stud High-Low With a Buy Poker	52	individual
Follow The Queen Poker	52	individual
Four of a Kind	52	individual
Générala	52+2J	individual
Getaway	52	individual
Gnav	42	individual
Go Stop	48+5J	individual [4]
Golden Ten	56	individual
Golf	52, 2x52	individual
Golf Eight Card	2x52, 2x52+4J	individual
Golf Four Card	52	individual
Golf Nine Card	2x52, 2x52+4J	individual
Golf Six Card	2x52, 2x52+4J	individual
Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Poker	52	individual
Grocery Store Dots Poker	52	individual
Guts	52	individual
Have a Heart Poker	52	individual
High Card Pool	52	individual
HOE Poker	52	individual
Hollywood Garbage	3x52	individual
Hoola	52	individual [2]
HORSE Poker	52	individual
Horse Race cards	52	banker
HOSE Poker	52	individual
Howdy Doody Poker	52	individual
In Between	52	banker
Indian Poker	52	individual
Irish Poker	52	individual
Irish Snap	52	individual
Iron Cross Poker	52	individual
Jack the Shifter Poker	52	individual
K'ap Tái Shap	8x32	individual
Kapaga	52+2J	individual
Knock-Out Whist	52	individual
Koira	52	individual
Kvitlech	24	banker
Lame Brain Pete Poker	52	individual
Lansquenet	6x52	banker
Let It Ride	52	banker
London Lowball (7-card Stud) Poker	52	individual
Loo	52	individual
Losing Lodam	52	individual
Low Chicago Poker	52	individual
Low Hole Poker	52	individual
Lowball (5 Card Stud) Poker	52	individual
Mao	2x52, 3x52	individual
Mattis	52	individual
Maw	52	individual
Mexican Stud Poker	52	individual
Mexican Sweat Poker	52	individual
Mexican Train	91	individual
Michigan	52	individual
Mississippi Mud Poker	52	individual
Napalm	52	individual
New Canasta	8x52+16J	individual
Ninety-Nine adding game	2x52	individual
NLK	44	individual
No Peek Poker	52	individual
Nobble	52	individual
Ogórek Cucumber	52	individual
Old Maid	43, 51	individual
Omaha Poker	52	individual
Omaha Hi-Lo Eight or Better Poker	52	individual
Omaha High Poker	52	individual
One Arm Joe	28	individual
One Hundred adding game	2x52	individual
Pai Gow 牌九	32	banker
Pai Gow Poker	52+J	banker
Panguingue	8x40	individual
Pass The Trash Poker	52	individual
Pelmanism	52	individual
Pig	52, 52+J	individual
Pineapple Poker	52	individual
Pip-Pip	2x52	individual
Podrida	52	individual
Poker Bull	52, 52+2J	individual
Polish Red Dog	52	banker
Pontoon	52	banker
Pope Joan	51	individual
President	52, 52+2J	individual
Price is Right, The Poker	52	individual
Púkk	40	individual
Push Poker	52	individual
Pyramid Poker	52	individual
Racehorse Pitch	52	individual
Razz	52	individual
Ribs	2x32	individual
ROE Poker	52	individual
Roll Your Own Poker	52	individual
Round the World Poker	52	individual
Rummy Indian	3x52+3J	individual
Rummy 500	2x52, 2x52+4J	individual
Russian Poker	52	banker
San Francisco Poker	52	individual
Scat	52	individual
Schwimmen	32	individual
Second Hand High Poker	52	individual
Selection / Rejection Poker	52	individual
Sequence Poker	52	individual
Seven Card Stud Poker	52	individual
Seven Card Stud High-Low Poker	52	individual
Seven Card Stud with Wild Cards Poker	52	individual
Seven Twenty-Seven	52	individual
Seven-card Regrets Poker	52	individual
SHOE Poker	52	individual
Shoot	52	banker
Shoot Pontoon	52	banker
Siwweschrööm	32	individual
Skin	52	banker
Slabberjan	42	individual
Slapjack	52	individual
Slippery Sam	52	banker
Snip Snap Snorum	52	individual
Sökö Stud Poker	52	individual
Spar	35	individual
Speculation	52	individual
Spit in the Ocean Poker	52	individual
Spoons Eights	2x52	individual
Strip Poker	52	individual
Teen Patti	52	individual
Telesina	44	individual
Texas Hold'em Poker	52	individual
Three Card Poker	52	banker
Three Five Seven Poker	52	individual
Three-Thirteen Rummy	3x52, 3x52+6J	individual
Tic Tac Toe Poker	52	individual
Tiddly-Wink	28, 55, 91	individual
Toepen	32	individual
Toruro	40	individual
Tournament Blackjack	52, 6x52	banker
Trains	55, 91	individual
Trees Poker	52	individual
Tripoli	52	individual
Troggu	62	alliance
Twist'em Dominoes	28	banker
Two plus One Poker	52	individual
Uke-Shogi	42	individual
Vatra	52, 52+J	individual
Vier-Anderle	38	individual
Viuda, La	52	individual
Wall Street Poker	52	individual
Whisky Poker	52	individual
Yukon Hold'em Poker	52	individual
Z Poker	52	individual
Zecchinetta	40	banker
Zhăo Péngyou 找朋友	2x52	alliance
4-2-2 Poker	52	individual
4-2-3 Poker	52	individual
5 Card Omaha poker	52	individual
6 Card Omaha poker	52	individual
6-card Brag	52	individual
7-card Brag	52	individual
7½	40	banker
25	52	individual
31 showdown	52	individual
41 Exchange	52	individual
55	52	alliance
110	52	alliance
220	52	alliance
5000 Rummy	2x48, 2x48+4J, 2x52, 2x52+4J, 3x48, 3x52, 3x52+6J	individual

Explanation of symbols

Configuration

• Individual. There are no teams. All players play for themselves and against the others.
• Partnership. The players are divided into fixed teams. This is very unusual with seven players as the teams would have to be unequal in size.
• Alliance. Temporary teams (alliances) are formed during the game. Usually the teams are set by the bidding or by the location of certain cards. The teams generally change from deal to deal, so although players will need to co-operate with their partners, ultimately everyone plays for themselves.
• Sitting Out. A number in brackets [1] indicates players who do not take a full part in the game, but may have minor duties such as dealing the cards, fetching the beer or making the tea. Players generally take turns to sit out.
• Banker. One player is the banker, and the other players play against the banker, rather than against each other. Many casino games have this format, with a representative of the house playing as the banker. In home games, the role of banker usually passes from player to player, so that everyone has an opportunity to be the bank.

Design

This column indicates the type of cards or tiles needed. See the equipment section of the classified index for further details of the different designs.

Quantity

This column gives the number of cards in the deck, indicates where multiple decks are used, and the number of jokers. Where the game can be played with various sizes or numbers of decks, perhaps depending on the number of players, the possibilities are listed, separated by commas. For example, "2x32" means a double 32-card deck: 64 cards in all with two copies of each card. "52+2J" means a 52-card deck with two jokers. "32, 36" means the game can be played with 32 or 36 cards. "2x52+2J, 3x52+3J" means that the game can be played with two 52-card decks plus two jokers (106 cards) or three 52-card decks plus three 52-card decks plus three jokers (159 cards).

Possible for Seven Players

Here is a list of other traditional card and tile games that can be played by seven players. These are games that although possible for seven, are not particularly recommended, since they work better with some other number of players.

Game	Quantity	Configuration
Ace-To-Six Lowball (Draw) Poker	52	individual
All for One and One for All Poker	52	individual
Baseball Poker	52	individual
Boonaken	32	individual
California Lowball Poker	52, 52+J	individual
Concentration Dominoes	28	individual
Dai Fugō	52+J, 2x52+2J	individual
Double Draw Poker	52	individual
Fan Tan	52	individual
Five Card Draw Deuces Wild Poker	52	individual
Five Card Draw Poker	52	individual
Five Card Draw with a Bug Poker	52+J	individual
Football Poker	52	individual
Freeze Out Dominoes	28	individual
Jacks Back (5 Card Draw) Poker	52, 52+J	individual
Jacks or Better (5 Card Draw) Poker	52	individual
Jhyap	52, 52+2J	individual
Juse	52	individual
Kalooki Caribbean	3x52+6J	individual
Kansas City Lowball Poker	52	individual
Lowball (Draw) Poker	52	individual
Manipulation Rummy	3x52	individual
Matador	55, 91	individual
Mighty	2x52+2J	alliance
Nap	36, 52	individual
Night Baseball Poker	52	individual
Oh Hell!	52	individual
Paiute	52	individual
Paskahousu	52, 2x52	individual
Pitch	52	individual
Poker Menteur	52	individual
Pöytäpaska	52, 2x52	individual
Ruotsalainen paskahousu	52, 2x52	individual
Shithead	2x52	individual
Simultaneous Solitaire	7x52	individual
Sviten Special	52	individual
Tonk	52	individual
Tres y Dos	52	individual
Trips to Win (5 Card Draw) Poker	52	individual
Twenty-Two	2x52	individual
Vändåtta	2x52	individual
Woolworth Poker	52	individual