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Tarot is the oldest, with origins in 15th-century northern Italy (around the 1430s–1440s), where it was invented as a trick-taking card game called 'Tarocchi' for wealthy Italian families. Fortune-telling use didn't emerge until the late 18th century — roughly 300 years after the cards were first created.

Uno holds the record as the world's best-selling card game with over 150 million copies sold since 1971, when barber Merle Robbins created it to settle a family argument about Crazy Eights rules. He initially sold it from his barbershop for $1 a set before selling the rights for $50,000 plus royalties.

Researchers mathematically proved that the rules of Magic: The Gathering are so complex that you can construct a game state that behaves like a universal Turing machine — a theoretical computer that can compute any computable function. This means, in principle, a sufficiently complex game of Magic can perform any computation a real computer can.

Card counting is not illegal — it's simply using your brain to track which cards have been played. However, casinos are private property and can refuse service to anyone they suspect of card counting. The MIT Blackjack Team used sophisticated team-based counting systems to win millions from casinos legally in the 1980s and early 1990s.

A 1st Edition Magic: The Gathering 'Black Lotus' card sold for $540,000 in 2021, making it the most expensive commercially produced card game card in history. In the Pokémon world, a gem-mint 1st Edition holographic Charizard sold for $420,000 in 2022.

Microsoft's Solitaire was included in Windows 3.0 in 1990 as a deliberate user experience design decision — not for entertainment, but to teach office workers how to use a computer mouse. Specifically, dragging cards to build the foundations trained users in the click-and-drag gesture that was new and unintuitive for most people in 1990.