Yeah, it’s not the big century mark, but this rook game website was not quite around in 2006, so we thought we would give a happy birthday shout out to rook this year. 105 years ago the greatest card game known to man was born. The card game rook born to give non-gamblers a way to battle it out on the card table for many years was created 105 years ago. And to this day, the variations of rook keep pouring in.