Two player card games are often played for fun and are relatively easy to learn. These two player card games can be easily played with just a typical deck of cards:

• Bezique uses four sets of 32 cards. A widely played variety of Bezique is called Rubicon Bezique. All players receive 9 cards and the rest become the stock. Each cards combination has different point. Another variation of Bezique is Pinochle. Bezique is not normally considered as a demanding card game, though memorizing possible scoring and meld combinations can be disorienting for a complete beginner.

• Cribbage uses a deck of regular 52 cards. The game has a scoring device that is referred to as the Cribbage Board. All players get six cards. The goal of the game is to get up to 31 cards. All players score points for a series. A card game called as Costly Colours is similar to Cribbage.

• Speed is a two player card game of shedding variant. In this game, all players try to remove all of their cards. Speed is closely related to other card game known as Nertz. Each player gets five cards to make a hand, and a player also gets fifteen facedown cards to make a drawing pile. If the game is played with Jokers, it can be treated as a wild card. A common method is to memorize all cards that are down so you don’t need to see them all when playing. This tactic is particularly useful very early in a round if you are more focused and have better memory compared to your opponent.

• Piquet, until early twentieth century, it was perhaps the most widely two-player card game in France, just like Cribbage in UK. It was first became well known in UK after the royal marriage of King Philip II of Spain and Queen Mary I in 1554. At the time the game was called as Cent, after a Spanish game called Cientos.

• Go Fish is an easy card game often played by children. You ask your opponent for cards of certain rank. Your opponent must place all cards of a specific rank. If your opponent has no cards of the rank, he/she says Go Fish. Then you draw a card from the pool (or ocean) and your opponent start the next turn. The game stops when all cards are drawn, and all books are used. Whoever gets the most books wins the game.