Packed with easy to follow illustrations and step by step instructions, this complete guide to playing cards tells you how to play 52 games, master 52 skills, and perform 52 tricks.

Teachers, use this book to teach your students how to add and subtract with the games included. Moms, teach your kids how to play fair, take turns, and how to become good sports by practicing with a simple deck of cards and Card Tricks & Card Playing.

The ideal companion for an evening with your friends or family, this book unveils the rules and instructions for playing a wide range of games, variations on the rules of play, as well as tips and tactics on how to beat your opponents, how to pull off a huge array of impressive shuffles, cuts, deals, and flourishes, the secrets of performing simple sleights of hand and working them into easy to learn but impressive tricks. Not only will your family enjoy the time you spend together learning these tricks, they will take the skills and gamesmanship they learn playing cards out into the world and apply them to skill-based life activities like adding, subtracting and playing fair.

Teach the whole family to enjoy time with one another with Card Tricks & Card Playing by pulling this fun guide out during the holidays or family get togethers!