The game's rules can appear mysterious to the noninitiated, yet more Germans play it than football. It's also listed as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage asset. To start out, full disclosure: I'm ...

DALLAS — Every Thursday, four friends gather around a table at a senior living facility in Dallas for a ritual rarely repeated anywhere else in Texas -- or the country, for that matter. “He likes to ...

While snap, poker and bridge are the card games favoured in the UK, Germans prefer the trick-taking "brain game" skat. Played for more than 200 years, this 32-card game got its first official mention ...

When Kristina Huisman was introduced to a random card game in 2011 to pass the time during her night shift, she never could have fathomed that a decade later she'd be the Canadian Champion. The game ...