[2] The most popular card game in 16th-century Europe was Piquet, played with a 36-card deck that dropped ranks from 5 to 2.
The British and the Scandinavians are the most resistant to shortened packs, having maintained the 52-card format since receiving them in the 15th century.
The British have also propagated that pack size through whist, the most popular card game of the 19th century.
In the 20th century, this has been followed by contract bridge, gin rummy, canasta, and poker which all require that deck size.
During the Qing dynasty, the Chinese money-suited cards dropped one suit as rummy-type games became more popular.
[5] The most successful addition to the standard deck is the Joker which first appeared during the American Civil War as a Euchre trump card.
[7] 500 is a Euchre offshoot invented by the United States Playing Card Company (USPCC) during the early 20th century.
[2] A French-suited deck of 32 cards, consisting of 7, 8, 9, 10, Jack, Queen, King and Ace in four suits each, is used in the two-player game Piquet, which dates back to the 16th century.
Stripped deck five-card stud is a game particularly susceptible to cheating by collusion, because it is easy for partners to signal a single hole card and the relative value of knowing the location of a single card is higher than with a full deck.
The game of pinochle is played with 48 cards, consisting of a doubled euchre deck (that is, two copies of 9-A of each suit).
In some games, a small number of cards are stripped from the deck to make the deal exact.