Oh, I love this question. I'm not visually impaired, but have done some accessibility work for the visually impaired in software, and am an enthusiast of r/gamedesign . We need more accessible games. If anyone has suggestions of types of games they've enjoyed that they'd like to be able to play physically without sight, please let me know.

A question about this pops up now and then in the /r/boardgames subreddit. $1

If you guys want to explore board games (and I highly recommend trying a board game with your blind friend) check out $1 where I talk about modern board games for the blind and visually impaired. Let me know if you want any specific suggestions :)

My grandparents played a lot of cribbage - usually doubles with their friends. (My grandfather was totally blind, he never learnt braille but holepunched the cards so he could tell what they were). I also grew up playing it against grandma and mum too (who I don't believe I've ever beaten). You'll probably want a crib board to peg your score, but you can always write your score down instead.

Personally I'm a big fan of hearts, which you might know from being one of the card games that would come with windows.

I've never learnt it, but cannasta is another game that has at various times been very popular. You'll need more than one deck of cards though.

Sorry I don't have any links, but there is a website somewhere (having trouble finding it at the moment) that is an encylopedia of card games with many rule variations for different card games (and there are heaps of them). My parents also have a book of something like 500 card games, though I forget the title, from the dim dark ages before the internet was a thing.

Edit: I thought I might add, you can also check in over at /r/boardgames, I'm sure the guys and girls there will have plenty of other suggestions of traditional card games they enjoy and where to source rules.

Rummy is great, or do a Casino night with BlackJack and Poker.

We played Rook and Skipbo when I was little. Both my parents were totally blind.

Really, if you braille the cards, you can play anything.

Poker, war, spades, go fish, black jack, bs, i’m completely blind and love card games

How about the new one on rs games? You don’t need the client you can just play it with normal cards I think it’s called war. You can try that war game. It’ll take forever and ever and a million years.I gave up after 15 minutes. There is gold fish, theres the BS I doubt you game. You can even play scopa just use the king queen and knights as their other cards. What about that 99 game?

Crazy 8's is almost like Uno but with regular playing cards. It's good times.

Sort of unrelated, but I recently heard about the game Unstable Unicorns and I really would like to play that with my friends. Anyone here have experience with the game who might have some tips on how to make the game a bit more accessible? I'd expect brailling out the cards would be impossible because they're so long and braille is so cumbersome

There's always cribbage. That's one of the better 2-player games. Or things like Euchre, if you have 4 people. There are several books of card game rules. I'd recommend looking in a book or online, and seeing if any of the games sound interesting, as there are thousands of well-known card games. Some of them can be quite cognitively troublesome though, so you'd have to figure out what sorts of things you prefer to play.