Card Game Sites
As you can see from the list of links below, there are many sites that offer free online card games, and signing up is easy.
The larger sites such as Yahoo and Pogo attract players from all over the world and it is generally easy to find a game at any time of the day or night. The smaller sites have developed their own style and community of loyal players and often provide a friendlier and more social experience.
It is worthwhile signing up at a few sites and playing a few games to get a feel for the type of play and level of competition, and where you enjoy playing.
- Canasis Free Games: Canasta, Cribbage, Euchre,Hearts,Spades
- Dracis: Cribbage, Hearts, Poker, Spades,Whist
- Freeverse Games: Bridge, Euchre, Hearts, Spades,
- GameColony.com: Canasta, Cribbage, Gin Rummy
- Game Desire: Bridge, Cribbage, Euchre, Gin, Poker,
- Gamesville free games online: Euchre, Hearts, Spades
- IPlay Games: Canasta, Cribbage, Euchre, Gin, Hearts, Spades
- Mystic Island: Euchre, Hearts, Spades, Parrot - a form of Rook
- Nidink: Canasta,Cribbage, Euchre, Hearts, Spades
- Play Java online games: Gin Rummy, Cribbage, Canasta
- PlayOK Online Games: (previously known as Kurnik Online) Bridge, Canasta. Cribbage, Euchre, Gin, Hearts, Spades
- Pogo: All the classic card games and more
- Renaissance Games Online: Cribbage, Euchre, Gin Rummy,Hearts, Spades
- Rubl online games: Gin Rummy, Cribbage, Canasta
- Safe Harbor Games: Canasta, Cribbage, Hearts, Spades - with Euchre and Gin Rummy under development.
- Tams11 Online Gaming Lobby: Cribbage, Euchre, Spades, Rummy
- The Gamer Shack: Cribbage, Spades
- The ZOO Gaming Community: Gin, Hearts, Spades.
- World Gaming Center: Bridge, Cribbage, Euchre, Hearts, Spades
- Yahoo! Games: Blackjack, Bridge, Canasta,Cribbage,, Euchre, Gin, Hearts, Poker, Spades - and more
- Zone MSN Games: Blackjack,Bridge, Spades, Hearts, Texas Holdem
Signing up to play cards
Most card sites require that you register a user name, password and an email address to login to play cards online.
Many players establish a web based email account - to protect their identity and to quarantine card related emails from their main email program. For example free web based email addresses are available from GMail, Inbox, MyWay and Fastmail.
To play at Yahoo you will need to register a Yahoo email account.
For Zone MSN Games you will need a Windows Live identity. This can either be a Hotmail account or you can sign up using an existing GMail, Inbox or other web based email account.
Once signed in to a site, it is also useful to read the support pages to identify their preferred browsers, settings and plugins required. For example Yahoo and Zone MSN require that you use Internet Explorer, with settings to enable pop up windows. Most sites require the latest version of Java and/or Flash are installed.
Computer Security
Computer security is as an essential part of life on the internet, and it is no different when playing card games.
To protect your computer from the computer security threats, you are advised to install detection and prevention software and to observe some basic preventive measures in using your computer, as follows:
- Install an anti virus software.
- Install firewall software.
- Install anti-spy ware software.
- Regularly update your operating systems, anti virus, anti-spy ware, firewall and other security software.
- Regularly scan your computer for viruses and spy ware at least on a daily basis.
But then you, if you are surfing the internet you are doing all these things already ! These are easy 'house keeping' procedures to keep your computer running smoothly.