Letter guide · Y

Card games that start with Y

Y is led by the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game and the Israeli draw-and-discard game Yaniv, with the old trick game Yukon, the cooperative Yokai, the fighting-game duel Yomi, and the party game You’ve Got Crabs.

6 checked entries Named rule sources No copied rule text

Interactive directory

6 Y card games, compared

Use the filters to separate quick fillers from longer strategy games, or standard-deck classics from games that need their own cards.

6 games found
Y

#01

Yaniv

rules reference

An Israeli draw-and-discard game: reduce your hand total and call Yaniv—unless someone else is even lower.

2–5 players 15–30 minStandard deck
draw-and-discardfamily
Open rules reference
Y

#02

Yokai

game database

Cooperatively group spirit cards by type without talking, peeking at cards and moving them around a shared grid.

2–4 players 20 minDedicated deck
cooperativememory
Open game database
Y

#03

Yomi

publisher

Read your opponent and resolve attacks, throws, and blocks like a card-based fighting game.

2 players 20–30 minDedicated deck
duelbluffing
Open publisher
Y

#04

You've Got Crabs

game database

A team party game where partners use secret signals to tell each other they have four matching cards.

4–10 players 15 minDedicated deck
partyteamsignals
Open game database
Y

#05

Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game

official rules

Summon monsters and use spells and traps to reduce an opponent’s life points.

2 players 20–45 minCollectible / constructed
dueldeck construction
Open official rules
Y

#06

Yukon

rules reference

An old point-trick game where the four jacks—the Yukons—are trumps and hands are refilled after every trick.

2–4 players 20–30 minStandard deck
trick-takingpoints
Open rules reference

Quick picks by situation

20 minutes or less

Yokai · You've Got Crabs

Use a standard deck

Yaniv · Yukon

Good with exactly two

Yaniv · Yokai · Yomi · Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game

Bigger groups (6+)

You've Got Crabs

Editorial notes

What the Y list includes—and what it doesn’t.

Are board games with cards included?

Only when cards carry the central play. A board game that merely uses event cards is not automatically treated as a card game.

Is the list complete?

It is deliberately curated, not a claim to every historical or regional title. We add games when the basic facts and a useful source can be checked.