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Ultimate Card Games

2004 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ16258817 ↗
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Ultimate Card Games is a 2004 video game developed by German studio Cosmigo and published by Telegames for the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS platforms. It contains several thinking games, such as poker and solitaire. Ultimate Card Games for the Nintendo DS was initially scheduled for release in spring of 2005. After numerous delays, an October 2007 press release from Nintendo placed the game's release in March 2008, but the game was not shipped to retailers. Ultimate Card Games DS was released only in North America on November 8, 2011.

Games

It includes the following card games:

Hearts

Spades

Bridge

Euchre

Cribbage

Canasta

Gin Rummy

Go Fish

Crazy Eights

Five Card Stud Poker

Blackjack

See also

Ultimate Brain Games

Reception

Craig Harris of IGN gave the game a 9.5/10 score, praising its large amount of content, in particular the number of gameplay variations and extra content, as well as its presentation and surprisingly high quality. He considered the Game Boy Advance version to be the 13th best game on the console.

References

External links

Telegames, Inc.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 2005, 2007, 2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2011-11-08. The account is most persuasive where Ultimate, Card and Games can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as 2004 video game. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16258817. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2004, 2005, 2007 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ultimate Card Games” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.