Playing cards (in Italian: carte da gioco) have been in Italy since the late 14th century. Until the mid 19th century, Italy was composed of many smaller...
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Chinese playing cards French playing cards Ganjifa German playing cards Hanafuda Italian playing cards Karuta Spanish playing cards Swiss playing cards Tujeon...
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French-suited playing cards or French-suited cards are cards that use the French suits of trèfles (clovers or clubs ♣), carreaux (tiles or diamonds ♦)...
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question marks, boxes, or other symbols. In playing cards, a suit is one of the categories into which the cards of a deck are divided. Most often, each card...
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Spanish-suited playing cards or Spanish-suited cards have four suits, and a deck is usually made up of 40 or 48 cards (or even 50 by including two jokers)...
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in block Playing Cards (U+1F0A0–1F0FF). A specific white joker, a fool, and twenty-one generic trump cards were added to the Playing Cards block in Unicode...
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Tarot (redirect from Tarot playing cards)
pack of playing cards, used from at least the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play card games such as Tarocchini. From their Italian roots...
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most wanted playing cards, similar cards made for Israel during Gaza war Archaeology awareness playing cards Desert Storm trading cards Manhunt (military)...
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Trump (card games) (redirect from Trump cards (cards))
is a playing card which is elevated above its usual rank in trick-taking games. Typically an entire suit is nominated as a trump suit; these cards then...
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Playing cards (simplified Chinese: 纸牌; traditional Chinese: 紙牌; pinyin: zhǐpái) were most likely invented in China during the Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279)...
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German-suited playing cards are a very common style of traditional playing card used in many parts of Central Europe characterised by 32- or 36-card packs...
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a playing card with a picture of a king displayed on it. The king is usually the highest-ranking face card. In the French version of playing cards and...
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Face card (redirect from Court cards (playing cards))
In a deck of playing cards, the term face card (US) or court card (British and US), and sometimes royalty, is generally used to describe a card that depicts...
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deck has 78 cards: 56 Minor Arcana, and 22 Major Arcana. The Minor Arcana generally correspond to the suits of Spanish or Italian playing cards. The Major...
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(19th century) Portuguese-suited playing cards or Portuguese-suited cards are a nearly extinct suit-system of playing cards that survive in a few towns in...
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Trionfi (Italian: [triˈoɱfi], 'triumphs') are 15th-century Italian playing card trumps with allegorical content related to those used in tarocchi games...
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cards?" Only games played with traditional European playing cards are listed. Those played with cards from other regions are not included, nor are proprietary...
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Standard 52-card deck (redirect from Anglo-American playing cards)
needed] of French-suited playing cards is the most common pack of playing cards used today. The main feature of most playing card decks that empower their...
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queen. The Jack corresponds to the Unter in German and Swiss-suited playing cards. The earliest predecessor of the knave was the thānī nā'ib (second or...
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Scopa (category CS1 Italian-language sources (it))
Scopa (Italian: [ˈskoːpa]; lit. 'broom') is an Italian card game, and one of the three major national card games in Italy, the others being Briscola and...
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Past". Chicago Playing Cards Collectors Bulletin. Vol. 36-3, p. 1809. McLeod, John. (2005). "Playing the Game: Canasta Relatives". The Playing-Card, Vol....
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Switzerland have their own deck of playing cards referred to as Swiss-suited playing cards or Swiss-suited cards. They are mostly used for Jass, the...
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Briscola (category Pages with Italian IPA)
players, played with a standard Italian 40-card deck. The game can also be played with a modern Anglo-French deck, without the eight, nine and ten cards (see...
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Tarot of Marseilles (category Tarot playing card decks)
standard pattern of Italian-suited tarot pack with 78 cards that was very popular in France in the 17th and 18th centuries for playing tarot card games and...
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latter is often called dame (lady) or variations thereof. In French playing cards, the usual rank of a queen is between the king and the jack. In tarot...
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A flush is a hand of playing cards where all cards are of the same suit. There are different types of flush, including straight, where the flush is formed...
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Swords (suit) (category Articles containing Italian-language text)
playing cards alongside coins, cups and batons. These suits are used in Spanish, Italian and some tarot card packs. Symbol on Italian pattern cards:...
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Glossary of card game terms (redirect from Playing hand (cards))
Conceding defeat without playing. Double bête: a double penalty, usually for failing to make a contract after choosing to play out the cards. bettel or bettler...
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Card game (redirect from Games/Cards)
card game is any game that uses playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, whether the cards are of a traditional design or specifically...
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Tarot card games (redirect from Tarock playing cards)
original Italian, Tarock in German and similar words in other languages. Tarot cards were invented in northern Italy around 1420 for the purpose of playing cards...
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