Card Games Books

I bought this for the CD and did not realize there were games also included. There is the chance to play one game alone and five games with 2-4 players. There are playing cards/flash cards included. The cards (54 cards) have pictures, vocabulary, and pronunciation. The cd (45 minutes) is used for pronunciation practice. Nice product and a very good value. The packaging makes the product look child related but I think it is fine for beginners of any age.

This is a lovely and amusing little book for solitaire play lovers. It looks wonderful in any library or any place you put it.

Excellent. More advanced than the basic books

For all of you that were interested enough to pre-order this book, I thought that you should know that the book was moved to a new (bigger) publisher (Kensington Books). The book is in final stages of editing and will be available in August. If you would like to pre-order this book, search "0818407166" (ISBN), or "Chip Tricks" and it will come up! Happy tricking!

I love these cards. They are heart shaped and very positive. I wish they came with a guide book. The artwork and the energy is amazing. Angel love

What can I say?? This is the greatest magic book that I have ever read. From cover to cover, this book glows with brilliance. In no time I went from a beginner to an intermediate to advanced player. It is extremeley well written. Shakespeare could not have written it better!!! I recommend this to all who are beginner magic players. This book may be older than other books but it provides a strong basis to began your magic journey!!!!

Volume 6 covers Invasion, Planeshift, Seventh Edition, and Apocalypse. As usual, this volume only deals with expansions released since the previous volume of the encyclopedia. If you've *never* collected previous volumes, you might want to look into _The Complete Encyclopedia of Magic: The Gathering_ instead (which is no longer complete, what with the expansions released after the summer of 2001).

Before launching into the expansion chapters, the usual introductory material includes 'how to use this guide' and a Collector's History - a few paragraphs of introduction plus the usual Magic timeline, including the 'for beginners' decks (e.g. Portal), the basic sets, and the expansions. The introduction to the Collector's History gives the roll call and price list for the Power Nine - the most notorious and expensive cards of them all: Black Lotus, the 5 original Mox cards, Time Walk, Timetwister, and Ancestral Recall.

Each set of cards covered in Volume 6, as usual, is provided with an introduction, the style of which has been updated to make it more useful. Each introduction begins with 'At a Glance': Release Date, Size (number of cards), Featured Mechanics, and The One-Sentence Story. For example, Featured Mechanics for Invasion lists 8 features: multicolored spells, kickers, Dragon Legends, dual lands, Kavu, and 'divvy' cards. After 'At a Glance', each introduction continues with the kind of material provided in previous volumes, still broken into segments but now given a framework and consistency by conforming to At a Glance. The framework begins with the story segment (a few paragraphs fleshing out the one-sentence version), the development segment (design history), individual segments for each of the entries in the Featured Mechanics list, concluding with Standout Cards. All the segments are interspersed with images of the relevant cards. After the Standout Cards discussion, of course, we come to the main body of the chapter for a given set: the cards.

The individual cards for each set are listed in alphabetical order; they're shown at about 3/4 actual size. The versions of Magic that included those cards (at the time of printing) are specified, as well as any errata. The card lists' images are enough to hold the attention of even a casual collector, since the flavor text is legible and the artwork is printed well.

The introduction for the 7th edition chapter adds a new item: a table listing Cards Removed from the Basic Set (compared with 6th edition): 31 each for white and blue, 35 for black, 26 for red, 24 for green, 24 artifacts, and 6 lands. (On the bright side, Serra Angel has been brought back - I thought it was gone for good.)

After covering the individual sets, the book gives an overview of 2000 World Championship decks, this time including photographs of the World Champion and the other 3 quarterfinalists. The book concludes with a "Deckbuilders Indexes" section, as in the earlier volumes of the Magic encyclopedia.

I LOVE this book. I've been making cards for a couple of years now, so I have some experience. That said, the cards are easy to assemble using materials most of us cardmakers already have on hand.

Beginners should be OK with the instructions -- there aren't step-by-step diagrams, but there is a full-page color photo of each card, and fairly detailed instructions for how to put it together. Basic techniques and materials are explained in the first chapter, with photos of each item/tool.

The book is hardcover, spiral bound, so it lays flat. Nice touch!

I love the variety, too -- birthday, baby, friendship, thank you, sympathy, and love/wedding.

The designer uses embellishments in new ways, and offers suggestions for alternatives and substitutions. I found myself looking at a design and thinking "oh! THAT'S a neat way to use one of those - never thought of doing that ... "

This will be one of my "go to ..." books when I need to put something together quickly. It's a great source of inspiration. Well done.

Enhanced with the technical expertise of professional poker player Ken R. Auliffe (Editor of the "Canadian Poker Player" magazine), Maran Illustrated Poker from the Maran Family is an profusely illustrated introduction to the major varieties of poker card games including Seven Card Stud, Omaha, and the wildly popular "Texas Hold'em" in both limit and no-limit forms. Readers are taken through the psychology as well as mathematical aspects of poker whether in home games or tournament play. Providing a knowledgeable perspective and an illustrative pictorial representation of diverse hands and game play situations, Maran Illustrated Poker carries its readers through poker essentials, as well as offering tips for comfortable playing in a casino card room, an online poker room. The critically important subjects of tells, bluffing, table position, and so much more are covered in detail. Maran Illustrated Poker is very strongly recommended as a truly invaluable and "user friendly" reference for all poker players, be they novice or expert, amateur or professional.

While all of Reese's books are must-reads for serious bridge players, none matches up to the brilliance of "Master Play." In terms of its importance, I have never met an aspiring player who hasn't read the book. In fact, most motivated players read it many times. For the intermediate player, Reese's well laid out hands cover the important core skills such as the deep finesse, hold-ups, end plays, and simple squeezes. For those interested in studying triple squeezes, dummy reversals, and other esoteric and uncommon topics, look elsewhere. This book covers the basics - with a thoroughness and intelligence unmatched in other books of its kind. For advanced players, read a little more deeply and Reese will illustrate the value of negative inference. You'll learn to think how to think.