Card games that start with C

A Nepalese trick game related to Spades: call how many tricks you will take with spades as permanent trump.

Pagat covers it alongside Call Bridge, its close Indian relative.

Partners collect melds, especially seven-card canastas, across a long-form rummy game.

A collectible game where you ride ever-stronger vanguard units and lean on a rear guard to break through.

An adult party game where a judge picks the funniest—or most outrageous—white card for each prompt.

Adult content.

A fishing game where you capture table cards by matching or building sums, with bonus points for cards and spades.

Also spelled Cassino.

Draft rows of cards to feed your cats, collect toys, and avoid leftover food.

Collect merchant cards that upgrade and trade spice cubes into higher-value goods to buy point cards.

Play cards face down claiming a rank; anyone can call your bluff, and the loser picks up the pile.

Also called I Doubt It or BS.

Secretly choose a character each round—assassin, thief, merchant, and more—to build the most impressive city.

A purely mechanical solitaire laid out like a clock face; it ends when the fourth king turns up.

Pass a critter card face down and lie—or tell the truth—about what it is; collect four of a kind and you lose.

Spymasters give one-word clues so teammates can identify their agents in a grid of words without touching the assassin.

Take a row of chameleon cards or add one more; only three colors score positively, so overcommitting hurts.

An old Mexican two-player rummy that may be the ancestor of the whole rummy family.

Rummy played over several deals, each with a required contract of sets and runs before you can go down.

Bluff about hidden influence, challenge rivals, and be the last player still in power.

Stack matching asset pairs into a pile and steal the top of other players’ stacks before they protect them.

Each player sees every card but their own; bid on the total of all cards and call when someone overbids.

Match the top card by suit or rank, play an eight to change the suit, and race to empty your hand.

Peg points on a board for fifteens, pairs, and runs, with a spare “crib” hand belonging to the dealer.

Needs a cribbage board or another way to keep score.

Ecuador’s national card game: capture by matching or adding and race to forty points, with bonuses for sweeps.

Uses a 40-card pack.

Each player holds one card and decides whether to swap it with the next player; the lowest card loses a life.

Also known as Ranter-Go-Round or Screw Your Neighbor.

A combat card game where number cards score points and other ranks act as one-off effects or permanent powers.