(The 6 games or pages with the most significant increase are also listed on the home page under 'recent interest'.) The top 10% are given 5 flames, the next 20% 4 flames, the middle 40% 3 flames, the next 20% 2 flames and the bottom 10% 1 flame. The pages are then ranked in order from most significant increase down to most significant decrease. The number of visitors in the most recent month are compared with the average per month over the preceding five months, and the significance of the change is estimated using a statistical technique described here. (The top 6 games under this ranking are also listed on the home page as 'most popular games'.) Top 10% get 5 hearts, next 10% 4 hearts, next 20% 3 hearts, next 30% 2 hearts, bottom 30% 1 heart. Games are ranked in order of the average number of people (actually different IP addresses) per month who visited the game rules page in the last 6 months.

Subjective assessment of the editor combining two factors: how difficult or complex the rules are, and how difficult it is to learn to play the game well. Further 4-player games can be found among the collection of invented games and on the commercial games page.

The above are the editor's recommendations, but tastes differ and you may find other games you like more in the full index of traditional 4-player games. Scopone is a skilful Italian four-player partnership game in which cards or sets of cards are captured from the table by playing cards of equal value.

Cards games for two players