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This rulebook summarizes the standard blackjack game prescribed by Schedule 2 of Queensland’s Casino Gaming Rule, made under section 63 of the Casino Control Act 1982 and effective from 24 December 2025. Schedule 2, section 1 identifies blackjack as the casino game governed by that schedule.

Canasta is a rummy-style card game in which players collect cards of the same rank and place them face up as melds. The name “canasta” is commonly used for a meld containing at least seven cards. The classic game is played by four people in two partnerships, with partners seated opposite one anot...

Crazy Eights is a shedding game: match the top of the discard pile by rank or suit, and be first to empty your hand. Eights are wild — play one at any time and name the suit that continues.

Euchre is a fast partnership card game in which four players compete as two teams. Partners sit opposite one another. Each hand has five tricks, and one suit becomes trump. The team that chooses trump, called the makers, tries to win at least three tricks; the opposing team, called the defenders,...

Gin Rummy is a two-player card game in which each player improves a ten-card hand by drawing and discarding. The goal is to arrange cards into melds while keeping the point value of unmatched cards, called deadwood, as low as possible.

Go Fish is a children's matching game and usually the first card game anyone learns. Players ask each other for cards of a particular rank, trying to collect all four of a kind — a book. Ask someone who does not have it and they tell you to "go fish".

Hearts is a trick-taking game with an inverted goal: you are trying not to win tricks containing penalty cards. Every heart costs a point and the queen of spades costs thirteen, so the winner is the player with the fewest points when the game ends.

Old Maid is a simple matching game in which players discard pairs and draw hidden cards from one another. Every card can eventually be paired except one unmatched card, traditionally called the Old Maid. Players try to empty their hands without being left holding that card.

Pinochle is a trick-taking and melding card game in which players earn points in two distinct ways: by displaying valuable card combinations before play and by capturing counting cards during play. This rulebook presents a complete casual format for four players in fixed partnerships, commonly ca...

Rummy is a family of draw-and-discard games built on one idea: arrange your hand into melds — sets of the same rank, or runs of consecutive cards in a suit — and get rid of every card before anyone else.

Klondike is the patience game most people mean by "solitaire" — the one bundled with decades of desktop computers. One player works alone to move all 52 cards onto four foundation piles, each built up in suit from ace to king.

Spades is a partnership trick-taking game for four players in two teams, sitting opposite each other. Spades are always trump, and before each hand every player bids the number of tricks they expect to take.

Texas hold'em is the most widely played form of poker. Each player receives two private cards and shares five community cards dealt face up in the middle; the best five-card hand wins the pot — or the last player left after everyone else folds does.

UNO is a shedding-type card game for two to ten players. The goal is to be the first to play every card from your hand by matching the card on top of the discard pile by colour, by number, or by symbol. Action cards let you skip, reverse and penalise the players around you, which is what turns a ...

War is a two-player game of pure chance. The deck is split evenly, both players flip their top card, and the higher rank takes both. Equal ranks trigger a war: cards are laid face down and the next flip decides the whole pile.