The Card Room
Crab Fragment Card Games
The Card Room is a collection of games with cards, most of which you can print yourself, or order from our friends at DriveThruCards. All of our card games are quick and easy, and some of our decks can play several different games.
James Ernest is a prolific card game inventor, creating new generic decks like Pairs and Vines, as well as unique card games like Give Me the Brain and Letter Boxing. Many of his older card games from Cheapass Games can be found in the Game Preserve at Cheapassic Park.
Newest Additions
Our newest card game is Stage Blood, a lightweight game about managing troupes of Shakespearean actors. We’ve also created a new page for the Crab Fragment version of the Cheapass Games classic card game, Light Speed.
What’s more, we have a new six-suited deck called the Blossom Deck, a deck from the Dew Point universe currently staying with its cousin the Island Deck, along with two new games for that deck: Bulldog and Cowards. These games are both super-new and still in development, but you can try them with your own deck of cards right now!
Check out all of the lovely card games below, and be sure to visit our other game pages: The Board Room, The Pub, and our newset page The Ready Room, games that need no specialized parts.
Most of our card games (and some board games as well) are available from DriveThruCards. For your convenience we have built a page with links to all of our DriveThru products. Check it out!
Agents of the Crown
Agents of the Crown is a bluffing and dimplomacy game for exactly 4 players. The current version plays with a standard poker deck, but we are working on a custom deck version as well.
In each round, players can play in any turn order, face up or face down, trying to head off those challenges that matter the most to them, and bargaining (sometimes dishonestly) to help each other do the same.
Bread Basket
Bread Basket is a simple sandwich-making card game for 2 to 6 players. Each turn, players may add one or two cards to the line in the center of the table.
Certain strings of cards (sandwiches and soups) are worth points, and the goal is to pick up the most points over several rounds.
Fairmarket
The Fairmarket deck is a unique three-suited deck for card games from the Dew Point universe, including Fairmarket, Tresotti, and Scurro.
Fairmarket is a gambling game for 2-6 players. Players pre-select their bids for five market stalls, and win coins for being either the highest or the lowest bid in each.
Read all about it here, and watch the How to Play Video.
The Harvest
Set in a time of great upheaval among the crime families of Fight City, The Harvest is a carefully constructed minimalist strategy card game, played with just 36 cards.
Each double-sided card has a unique special ability and the goal is to run your opponent out of health.
The Island Deck
The Island Deck is a simple six-suited deck for several original games including Showboat, Powderkeg, and Down the Well.
We’ve recently added a new version of the artwork, the Paradise deck, with beautiful retro character illustrations.
Letter Boxing
Letter Boxing is a clever word game with deduction and bluffing. Players compete to make a word with limited cards, trying to guess what their opponent can complete.
Bright colors and a clever set of single- and double-letter cards truly makes this game the “The Heavyweight Champion of the Word.”
Pairs: A New Classic Pub Game
Pairs turns ten years old in 2024. We’re pleased to host some of the decks and all of the games at our information page.
Pairs is available for sale from Greater Than Games / Flat River Group. Our page contains variant games and links to our own art decks.
Read all about it here, and watch the How to Play Video.
Pirate’s Bluff
A lightning-fast bluffing game with art from the Dew Point universe. Pirate’s Bluff is similar to Liar’s Dice, but played with cards, and without turns.
Once the action starts, players can call out a bid at any time, escalating the difficulty until someone calls their bluff. We make two versions of this deck, so you can keep two in play. One to shuffle while the other is in play!
Sophisticuffs
Literally a “Battle of Two Seconds,” Sophisticuffs is a lightweight icebreaker game where two cards fight, one card wins, and the winner keeps the loser’s card. A lightweight diversion to spice up any event.
We now offer three Sophisticuffs card sets, with more coming soon!
Read all about it here, or watch the Video Here
Stage Blood
You and your contemporaries are theatrical agents in the age of Shakespeare, sending your clients to work on various plays throughout the land, and collecting the payments and accolades deserving of a person of your managerial talents.
Stage Blood is a work in progress, but we like where it is so far!
Vines and Postas
Two similar five-suited decks from the Carrisor universe, Vines and Postas each come with their own suite of original games.
The Vines deck is designed for a suite of more than twenty original trick-taking games, while the Postas deck is better for gambling games including Holdout and Prima Carta, and the solitaire game El Lobo.
Read all about them here, or get started with How to Play Holdout
Whispers
A classic gambling game from the Vinlant universe, Whispers is a simple press-your-luck game where the object is just to avoid getting a pair.
The deck has eight suits, numbered one through six, and six whispers, which can’t pair with anything. But each whisper in your hand doubles your penalty if you do get a pair.
Read all about it here, and watch the How to Play Video.
Looking for More?
You’ll find a wealth of board and card games at our Wild Game Preserve, Cheapassic Park. Some of these games are available for sale from our partners at Greater Than Games.
Some of our card games are double-entered at both this page and The Pub, and a few more are listed at the Ready Room, a page for games that require no specialized components.
And if there’s a James Ernest or Cheapass Game you can’t seem to find anywhere, we might just not have thought about it in a while. Please send us a note and let us know what you’re looking for.
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