Card Games Starting with 'S'

From global classics to modern hobby favorites, here are the most notable card games beginning with S across standard and commercial decks.

Classic & Widely Played

• Spades: Partnership trick-taking with bidding; nil bids, bags, 500-point target.
• Solitaire (Patience): Family of single-player games (Klondike, Spider, FreeCell, Pyramid, Golf).
• Hearts: Trick-avoidance game; shoot the moon, penalty points for hearts/Queen of Spades.
• Skat: German 3-player national game; complex bidding, 10-card hand, 2-card skat.
• Sheepshead (Schafkopf): Bavarian trick-taking; 5 players, partnerships determined by called Ace.
• Spite and Malice (Cat and Mouse): Competitive solitaire-style sequencing.

Party & Family Games

• Snap: Reflex matching; shout "Snap!" on matching ranks.
• Speed (Spit): Simultaneous race to play cards in ascending/descending order on center piles.
• Slapjack: Slap the pile when a Jack appears.
• Spoons: Pass cards rapidly; grab a spoon when you get four of a kind.
• Sushi Go!: Card-drafting set collection (commercial, not standard deck).

Gambling / Drinking / Adult

• Strip Poker / Strip [Game]: Variants where losing removes clothing. (Adults only, consent essential.)
• Shithead (Palace, Karma): Shedding game with "shithead" penalty for last player.

Modern / Hobby Games

• Star Realms / Hero Realms: Deck-building duel.
• Summoner Wars: Tactical card-driven miniatures.
• Spirit Island (card-driven version): Co-op defense.

This covers the most common "S" games across standard and commercial decks.