The card games history starts with its term. The term “card” is closely related to modern material of cards production – cardboard. But in principle, any card can be called a plaque with the image: wood, leather and even metal.

Rare cards for card games of a round shape were portrayed in India. The material for its manufacture was ivory and lacquered mat.The famous deck was the deck of Ramayan depicting mythological heroes.

However, the main unifying principle of the card game cards is not a material. The common feature of all types of cards – is that each card should have a certain dignity, denoted by figures or numbers, but also belong to a particular suit. Cards are used not only for games but for fortune telling, tricks and unfolding of solitaire games.

The first card game history referes to the cards emerged in China in VII-VIII centuries. They were made by engraving the image on cotton. The cards were divided into two unequal parts: above there is a quotation from a game, in the bottom there is a scene depicting a quote.

The history of card games continues in the XII century in China. There they played cards, where Foskey was absent: in a deck of 36 cards there were 4 suits. Nine cards of each suit had their title (ascending) according to the titles of government officials in China. These card have been used both for the game and for divination.

Japanese cards of VII-IX centuries were also intended for training, as well as for sophisticated literary entertainments of educated people. Elegant and unusual was the material from which the cards were produced: a pearly half shell on which there were depicted lines of poems. It was necessary to properly assemble a poem.

The dictionary of Chang Tse-Tung (in Europe, he became known in 1678) reported that the cards were invented in 1120 and in 1132 in China, they were already ubiquitous.

In Europe, cards appeared in the era of the Crusades in the Muslim East in the XI-XIII centuries. One of the earliest mentions of the cards is an Italian record books published in 1379.

In Spain, there was invented their own national game – lombre. This game spread all over the world and was especially popular under Catherine II.The name of this game gave the name to the card table, traditionally upholstered in green baize.