Pls recommend me a family card game

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Something like UNO?

Or a board game without a million pieces

Basically want something we can get into on holiday so pick up and play each evening and not too complex but keep us interested

Adults and kids 12-18

Any suggestions?

Normal pack of cards and a copy of Hoyle's card games.
Card games I used to love:
Go Fish
Cheat
Scabby Queen
Newmarket
Spoons (bit violent)
Pontoon
We used matchsticks for betting with

Cards against humanity

One warning about Dobble. if you're going abroad, a small metal tin in your luggage looks dodgy on an x-ray the kid I gave this to for his tenth birthday got his bags searched because of it

Excellent game though.

Zombie Dice is amazing.

Mille Bornes (can't believe no one's mentioned this!)
Phase 10

Fish or gin with nothing real playing cards

Rummicub. We have a set now but for years we played it with decks of cards.
Even my 7 year old loves a game.

We like SET (great for kids good at spotting patterns) , sushi go (a bit complicated and you need pen and paper as well, but different!) uno, dobble, "sevens" - (using a pack of standard playing cards ) . Travel "shut the box" also good. Good old "snap" or "pairs" can still be fun for older kids if you want a quick game. Top trumps also great.

Pass the Pigs and Dobble are favourites here.

Also rummy, new market, snap, poker and patience with regular playing cards.

Ratuki.

Racing Demon. One pack of (old) cards per person. Fast, furious and wonderfully competitive.

How many are you? Whist leading to Bridge will set you up nicely for later life.

Racko.
It's fast and short games. We played for years with my kids.

Skip-Bo is our family favourite

Bang! the dice game

Zilch: a 5 dice game, very simple to play and addictive. You score points for certain rolls, you then decide if you want to bank points or keep rolling, if you do a scoreless roll then you lost the points you've accumulated.

Rules are here zilch.playr.co.uk/rules.php

I couldn't believe no one had said racing demon, and then finally, someone did. I second that - the best fun it's possible to have with cards (although I'd never heard of exploding kittens, and I am off to check that out ... sounds silly enough to be my sort of thing).

Other than ones already mentioned, I would highly recommend:
Codenames
The Mind
For Sale
Timeline
Diamant
Saboteur
No thanks

For 6 or more players:
Masquerade
The resistance
One Night Ultimate Werewolf
Spyfall

Stretching to tile placement games:
Barenpark
Kingdomino

Tantrix. Unfortunately named, not a card game, but it's brilliant!

Not cards, but if you can get a little mahjong set, I highly recommend it! My DC are obsessed with it!

Newmarket, we use stones or shells from the beach to bet with.

Rummikub

Switch
Rummy
Snap
Old maid (all card games)

Skip-Bo is great and takes up less table room than Uno! (handy if you play whilst waiting for food order to arrive!)

Pass the pigs. Make sure you play it properly. My sister didn't like it until she realised she'd been doing it wrongly.
Eventually you only have to pack the two pigs in with other games so takes no space up on holiday.