Munchkin is a dedicated deck card game by Steve Jackson Games, written by Steve Jackson and illustrated by John Kovalic. It is a humorous take on role-playing games, based on the concept of munchkins.
Old box cover
A game of Munchkin being played, with coins being used to denote levels.
A dedicated deck card game is one played with a deck specific to that game, rather than a pack of standard playing cards. Educational packs of cards were being printed by the late eighteenth century, initially designed merely to inform, but later becoming playable games. Modern card games are often sold with non-standard distributions of suits and ranks.
Cards from Astrophilogeon depicting the constellations of Argo Navis and Orion
The game of Uno is designed to be played with a dedicated deck of cards