Fictional Games - Card Games

Card Games

• Arcomage - from the Might and Magic series.
• Alliances - Beggar's Banquet (1997, ISBN 0-441-00434-2 ), by Daniel Hood.
• Beastmaker - The Seventh Tower series by Garth Nix
• Bluff - The Game-Players of Titan by Philip K. Dick
• Cabbage (a parody of Cribbage) - Green Acres TV series
• Caravan - Fallout: New Vegas
• Crabbage (a parody of Cribbage) - File 13
• Cripple Mr Onion - Discworld (Note: Fan rules have been created, but are not official, and use ordinary playing cards rather than a Discworld "Caroc" deck.)
• Cups - game invented by Chandler as an excuse to give money to Joey - Friends TV series
• Damage - from the Iain Banks novel Consider Phlebas
• Diamondback - Cerebus by Dave Sim
• Dos (a parody of UNO) - File 13
• Double Fanucci - Zork computer game
• Dragon Poker - The MythAdventures books by Robert Asprin
• Duel Monsters - Yu-Gi-Oh!
• Exploding Snap - Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
• Fizzbin - Star Trek
• Fortune's Tower - Fable 2
• Go Johnny Go Go Go Go - The League of Gentlemen
• Mystic Warlords of Ka'ah - Fantasy card game from The Big Bang Theory. Sheldon and Raj compete in a Mystic Warlords of Ka'ah tournament against Sheldon's "arch nemesis" Wil Wheaton in the episode "The Creepy Candy Coating Corollary". It is now a virtual online CCG playable via Facebook.
• Pazaak - Star Wars. Played in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords.
• Pontoon Bridge - Played in The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard. The name is a pun.
• Pyramid - Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)
• Sabacc - Star Wars A card game that is associated with very high stakes gambling
• Speed Card Game - a card game featured in the game Xenogears
  • Sphere Break - from the Final Fantasy X-2 video game
• Tall Card - a card game played in the TV series Firefly.
• Tegwar - Bang the Drum Slowly (the novel by Mark Harris, also a film) It is a game basically designed to separate a sucker from his cash. The letters stand for "The Exciting Game Without Any Rules." When the characters in the film play the game, they appear to be making things up as they go along.
• Tetra Master - a card game in Final Fantasy IX played with cards depicting monsters and characters from the game. (An interesting sidenote: This game was eventually produced as a real collectible card game in Europe. But makes its first appearance as a fictional game in FF9)
• Tongo - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine TV series
• Tonk - The Black Company series by Glen Cook
• Tragic: The Garnering (a parody of Magic: The Gathering) - Fallout 2
• Triad - Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)
• Triple Triad - a card game in Final Fantasy VIII played with cards depicting monsters and characters from the game.
• Void of Power - Time of Technology (Gamerz Glow) (Oct 2009)
• Watch Me - a card game in The Dark Tower fantasy series by Stephen King.
• Whis - a card game in Tales of Eternia played with cards depicting the five elements.
• Wicked Grace - Dragon Age