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These day's it can be hard to find quality time with your family, the ideal image family has changed a bit since the old day's though. Your most likely pondering how to get your kids attention away from the newest video game so you can all do something together right?

Sure, some may find it boring but family card games are a great way to entertain without loseing to your kids in Super Smash Brothers or whatever your child's favorite video game is. If you and your family travel often card games are also a great way to keep everyone entertained on the road for just the cost on a standard deck of cards.

With a deck of cards, the amount of games you can play is almost limitless. If you and your children want you can even try to create your own games, which can often be very fun and exciting for the young-one's.

I'm willing to bet that even you remember when your mother or father taught you how to play your first card game, it was exciting wasn't it?

If your looking for a place to buy a standard deck of cards or even one themed for a certain game, toy stores usually sell them very cheap, lets say around two to five dollars. So you want to know what the best family card games are?

Lets start off with some that are better for teaching to younger children then move on to games that older children might enjoy.

(Ages 3 to 10)

Memory

*Players- Up to 6

Almost everyone should know of this game, if not then maybe you know of it by the name "Concentration". All you need is a standard 52 card deck, shuffle the deck then lay the cards facing down. It would be wise to lay them down in a pattern, such as in rows of five or six.

After doing this each player on his or her turn picks a card, then another one. If the card's match then that player keeps that pair, if it wasn't a pair then you set those cards back face down. The player with the most pairs after all the cards are gone wins.

Old Maid

*Players- 2 to 8

This game is very simple, yet entertaining. Again all you need is a deck of cards and a group of family members and/or friends. Before we get started, take one queen out of the deck. Deal out all the remaining cards to each player till they are gone.

Next each player discards any pairs they may have collected after being dealt, then one at a time each player shuffles his or her deck and offers it to the player to his or her left hand side. Then that player chooses a card in hopes that it will be the one they need to create a pair, if a pair is collected they have to discard it then the

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