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Card Game Storage: The Best Solution We’ve Found

Do you have a ton of card games and it looks like clutter or worse yet, you have forgotten what you have because they are stacked behind other card games? We had this exact problem, and had to come up with a solution for card game storage. There are so many small games on the market but over time they tend to get lost in our other games. My friend Maggie found a good fix to this problem. It stores all the small games in the same location and best of all it makes portability easy.

Here’s What to Get

4 x 6 Photo Storage Craft Keeper

The Best Card Game Storage Case We've Found

Label Maker

Our Card Game Storage Setup

Each case will hold 16 card or small games. I have labeled each plastic insert so I can quickly see what games are in the container. This setup allows for great organization. Here are some ideas on how to organize your container:

  • Alphabetical
  • Number of players
  • Age group such as children 4 – 8 or Adult
  • Frequency of play
  • Time such as 10 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, etc.

The new card game storage box fits on your game shelf next to all of your other games. This makes small games easily accessible.

Card Game Storage Solution

Once you get your container organized there is a little spot on the front where you can tape a typed list of what games are in the container. If you have multiple containers like me you won’t have to open each container to see what games are inside.

Case 1

Canasta Calente
Dungeon Mayhem
Fairy Tale – A New Story
Fill or Bust
Roll for It
Flinch
Quixx
Hit the Deck
Phase 10 Cards – Masters Edition
The Great Dalmuti
Five Crowns
Slide 5
Star Realms
Skip Bo
3 up 3 down
Wizard

Case 2

Bowling Dice
Chaos
Cheater
For Get It
Greed
Go for Broke
Match’em
Swap
Mile Bornes
Phase 10 – Dice
Pyramid Power
Scout
Rummikub Card Game
Spit
Square Deal
Sting

Case 3

Canasta Calente (We have two copies)
77 Ways to Play Tenzi
Tenzi Dice
Tetris Card Game
Everything Trivia Card Game
Uno Dare
Two Player Wizard
Regular deck of cards
Clue Card Game
Farkle Flip
Monopoly Card Game
Rock Paper Scissors
Scatergories Card Game
Shake
Spoons
Pinnacle Cards

Advantages to this setup

There are a lot of advantages to this card game storage (or small game storage) solution:

  • The inserts are plastic versus cardboard boxes so no frustration with the paper box getting warn or destroyed
  • The inserts clasp shut so no pieces will fall out and get lost
  • You can remove one plastic insert without having to take the whole box
  • You can easily take 16 games with you for a game night or vacation with one container
  • It clears up clutter on your game shelf
  • The card or small games are no longer hidden behind your larger game boxes

Other Options We’ve Tried for Card Game Storage

We’ve had experience with other storage options before landing on this one.

Stacking

We would stack the card games one on top of each other as well as behind and beside. They would often spill all over the place while we were digging for what we were looking for. It was not ideal. In fact we have gotten more small games and I am looking at getting a 4th box.

Bins

We fixed our toppling over problem by placing the card or small games in bins. The trouble with this solution was not all card games are the same size, so the smaller games ended up on the bottom and we barley played them. Pieces or cards would fall out of their cardboard boxes and we would have to empty the bin to find the missing pieces or cards.

If you don’t have a lot of games this is a good storage option but it really does not work well for travel.

Final thoughts

Card games and small games are great because you can collect a lot of them for little cost. The 4 x 6 storage craft keeper is a fantastic way to organize these small games so you can easily grab one and start to play. This card game storage solution has changed how much we play our card games because now we can easily access them and not forget what games we have.

This solution works well for small card games. We have come up with other solutions for larger games like Dominion. If you are looking for a storage solution for Dominion check out this guide.