Games like nertz

Nerts (US), Pounce (US) or Racing Demon (UK) is a fast-paced, multiplayer card game involving multiple decks of playing cards. It is often described as a combination of the card games Speed and Solitaire.

The game is of English origin and is recorded as Racing Demon as early as 1933 in the magazine Punch with accounts soon following in American publications from 1934 onwards under the name Pounce. Today proprietary Racing Demon cards are produced for it, consisting of ordinary 52-card Anglo-American pattern packs with different coloured backs. It had reached America by the 1960s, where it was also initially known as Racing Demon, but later became known as Nerts. The game also goes under many other names including: Peanuts Pounce, Racing Canfield, Scramble, Squeal and Scrooge. The game's name can also be spelt Nertz.