Card Games That Start With M

Every card game that starts with M

From the grandfather of trading card games to 16th-century pub staples, the letter M covers a surprising range: trick-taking, shedding, matching, solitaire, poker variants, social deduction and full-blown collectible systems. Here is the list, alphabetically, with a quick-rules summary for each. Names marked as trademarks belong to their owners — they are listed here for reference.

Mafia (party game)

Social deduction · 4+ players · played with a standard deck

Not a trick game, but played with cards: an informed minority of mafiosi hides among uninformed villagers, who vote by day while the mafia eliminates by night. Created by Dmitry Davidoff in 1986 and since played worldwide. Full rules →

Magic: The Gathering

Trading card game · 2+ players · since 1993

The original trading card game. Build a deck of lands and spells, cast creatures and sorceries, and reduce every opponent from 20 life to zero. Formats run from casual kitchen-table duels to draft and Standard, with the digital MTG Arena carrying the same cards online. Full rules → · Official site →

Manille

Trick-taking · 4 players, 2 partnerships · France & Catalonia

A Catalan and French trick-taking classic played with a stripped 32-card deck, which spread from the south across the rest of France in the early 20th century. Full rules →

Mao

Shedding / party game · 4+ players

Crazy Eights with a twist: most rules are secret. New players work them out by watching — playing out of turn, asking questions or breaking an unknown rule all cost penalty cards. Full rules →

Marriage (Klaberjass & Bezique)

Point-trick family · 2–3 players

A family of games named for their star meld: marrying the king and queen of trump scores big. Klaberjass and Bezique are the best-known members. Full rules →

Martha

Solitaire · 1 player

A one-deck patience with a novelty: half the cards start face down in the tableau and flip as you uncover them, so what you remember about the buried half matters as much as what you can see. Full rules →

Marvel Snap

Digital card game · mobile & PC · 2022

A fast deck-builder where a match lasts about three minutes across three locations. Snap to double the stakes mid-game — the ranked cube climb is the real meta. Full rules → · Official site →

Matrimony

Solitaire · 1 player · two decks

A two-deck patience with a reputation for stubbornness: largely mechanical foundation building where most deals are decided by luck more than skill. Full rules →

Mau Mau

Shedding game · 2+ players · German classic

A Crazy Eights cousin played across Europe: on your turn, match the top discard by suit or rank. Sevens make the next player draw, jacks call the next suit, and the first player out of cards wins. Full rules →

Maw

Historic shedding game · 3+ players · 16th century

An old English ancestor of Pope Joan. Everyone antes into the maw, then races to shed their hand under strict trump-following rules — the first out takes the stake. Full rules →

Memory (Concentration)

Matching game · 1+ players

Every card starts face down. Flip two at a time: a matching pair stays with you and earns another turn, a miss flips back over. Most pairs when the table is empty wins. Also known as Pelmanism or Pairs. Full rules →

Mexican Stud

Poker variant · 4+ players

A five-card stud variant dealt roll-your-own style: you choose whether each new card arrives face up or face down, so reading the exposed cards becomes the whole game. Full rules →

Michigan

Betting / stopping game · 3–8 players · also Newmarket or Boodle

Players build runs suit by suit until someone gets stuck, chips are won off the layout cards, and the first to run out of cards sweeps the pots. Full rules →

Mhing

Family card game · 2+ players · 1982

Mahjong rebuilt as a card deck: this 1982 Suntex release has players collect sets and pairs toward a winning hand — the tile classic translated to the card table. Full rules →

Mille Bornes

Racing card game · 2–6 players · France, 1954

A road race in cards: play distance cards toward exactly 1,000 miles while slowing rivals with hazards like flat tyres and speed limits — which only bite if you also hold their remedy. Full rules →

Minchiate

Trick-taking (tarot) · historic · Florence, 16th century

Florence's take on tarot, also called Germini: a 97-card deck with an expanded trump suit. Rarely played today, but kept alive by historians and reenactors. Full rules →

Mindi (Dehla Pakad)

Trick-taking · 4 players, fixed partnerships · South Asia

The subcontinent's twist on the Court Piece family: the score is not tricks won but tens captured — the little dehla cards decide the hand. Also spelled Mendikot or played as Mindi. Full rules →

Minibridge

Trick-taking teaching game · 4 players, 2 partnerships

Bridge with the bidding simplified away: declarer is fixed by point count, and the play itself — trumps, following suit, taking tricks — is full-strength bridge. The standard on-ramp to the real game. Full rules →

Mistigri

Trick-taking · 3–4 players · historic France

Historically called Pamphile: an old French Rams-family trick game with poker-like bluffing, played for small stakes or simply as a family game. Full rules →

Montana

Solitaire · 1 player · also Gaps

A patience game dealt fully face up into a grid with four gaps. Slide cards into the gaps to build each suit from 2 up to king, redealing stranded low cards when you stall. Full rules →

Monster Train

Digital deckbuilder · PC, console & mobile · 2020

A roguelike deck-builder from Shiny Shoe: draft monster units and spells to defend heaven's last pyre across three stacked battle floors. Full rules → · Official site →

Monte Bank

Banking / gambling · historic Spain & Mexico

Once known as the national card game of Mexico: players back ranks dealt onto the table while the banker pays on matches — a descendant of the Italian game basset. Full rules →

Monte Carlo

Solitaire · 1 player

A pair-matching patience: sweep away any two adjacent cards of equal rank, refill the gaps from the deck, and keep going until the tableau is empty or jammed. Despite the name, nothing to do with the casino. Full rules →

Monopoly Deal

Card game · 2–5 players

The Monopoly board squeezed into a 15-minute card game: collect and bank property sets, charge rent, and raid opponents with action cards like Deal Breaker and Forced Deal. First to three complete property sets wins. Full rules →

Mouche

Trick-taking · 2–6 players · historic France

Also called Lanterlu: an old French Rams-family gambling game with bluffing that foreshadows poker — playable for small stakes, as a party game, or with children. Full rules →

Mrs. Mop

Solitaire · 1 player · two decks

Spider's all-face-up cousin: two full decks dealt straight into the tableau, with simple rules but genuinely hard choices about which suits to build where. Invented by Charles Jewell. Full rules →

Munchkin

Card game · 3–6 players · Steve Jackson Games

A parody of dungeon crawls: kick down doors, fight monsters, grab treasure and stab your friends. First to level 10 wins — and everyone else is allowed to help the monsters. Full rules → · Official site →

This list sticks to M games with well-documented rules. Regional and historical variants beyond it are catalogued in Pagat.com's A–Z index of card game rules.

Play card games starting with M free online

Prefer to play instead of read? These 30 games all start with M and come from our card-games topic — memory matching, mahjong, card battles and casino tables among them. Every one runs instantly in the browser on desktop and mobile, with nothing to install and no account.

Card games beginning with M — questions

What are some card games that start with M?

Popular ones include Magic: The Gathering, Munchkin, Monopoly Deal, Mao, Mau Mau, Memory (Concentration), Michigan, Mille Bornes, Minibridge, Montana and Marvel Snap — the full list with quick rules is above.

What is the card game where the rules are secret?

That's Mao. It plays like Crazy Eights, but most rules are hidden and new players learn them by watching. Breaking an unknown rule — or speaking when you shouldn't — earns you a penalty card.

Can I play card games that start with M online for free?

Yes. The grid below collects M-titled games from our free card-games topic — memory matching, mahjong, card battles and more — all playable instantly in the browser, no download or account. The classics in the list above are paper-and-deck games, so each links to external rules instead.

A note on names

Magic: The Gathering (Wizards of the Coast), Munchkin (Steve Jackson Games), Monopoly (Hasbro) and Marvel Snap are trademarks of their respective owners, mentioned here for identification and reference only — WASM Arcade is not affiliated with them. Rules summaries above are our own writing; each entry links to a third-party reference for the full rulebook, and published games link to the rights holder's own site. Games in the playable grid are open source or embedded under license — see Game Credits & Licenses.