Pagat.com is a website containing rules to hundreds of card games from all over the world. Maintained by John McLeod, it contains information for traditional, commercial, and newly invented card games from all over the world. It has been described by writer David Parlett as the most important site of its kind on the Internet and the "only authoritative web site for all rules of card games and associated material." The site does not provide official rules to "folk games" as none generally exist, but rather reports how the games are actually played. As a consequence, the game articles provide many variants for the described games. The site relies on volunteer contributors from all over the world, and the game articles provide information on where the games are played as described and who has contributed the rules. The site also describes games that are played with domino-style tiles, which, although similar in spirit, are not strictly speaking card games. In addition, the site contains many pages related to card games in general, including a page on the general mechanics of card games. More information...
According to PR-model, pagat.com is ranked 3,315th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 2,138th in English Wikipedia.
The website is placed before iu.edu and after google.ru in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
