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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The concept of suits predates playing cards and can be found in Chinese dice and domino games such as Tien Gow. Chinese money-suited cards are believed...
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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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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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Spades () (French: Pique) is one of the four playing card suits in the standard French-suited playing cards. It has the same shape as the leaf symbol in...
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Tarot (redirect from French suited tarot)
intended for playing card games, are also used for cartomancy. Like the common playing cards, tarot has four suits that vary by region: French suits are used...
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development of various regional patterns of playing cards; "Italian suited cards" normally only refer to cards originating from northeastern Italy around...
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() (French: Trèfle) is one of the four playing card suits in the standard French-suited playing cards. The symbol was derived from that of the suit of...
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Hearts (♥, ) (French: Cœur, German: Herz) is one of the four playing card suits in a deck of French-suited and German-suited playing cards. However, the...
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() (French: Carreau) is one of the four playing card suits in the standard French-suited playing cards. Diamonds along with the other French suits were...
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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...
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together in a set as a deck of cards or pack of cards. The most common type of playing card in the West is the French-suited, standard 52-card pack, of which...
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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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King, Ober, and Unter. Modern German-suited playing cards have dropped the Queen rank, but French-suited playing cards have since adopted it as a replacement...
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Trump (card games) (redirect from Trump suit (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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Standard 52-card deck (redirect from Anglo-American playing cards)
deck[citation 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...
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symbols. Within it is a set of images depicting playing cards, and another depicting the French card suits. The Miscellaneous Symbols block contains the...
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Money-suited cards have attracted the most attention from scholars. They are considered to be the ancestors of most of the world's playing cards. Each suit...
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United States Playing Card Company (USPC, though also commonly known as USPCC) is a large American producer and distributor of playing cards. It was established...
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cards, I = Italian-suited cards, Sp = Spanish-suited cards and Sw = Swiss-suited cards. French (4 x AQJT) packs: Baśka Kop French (4 x AKQJT) or German (4...
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Glossary of card game terms (redirect from Playing hand (cards))
cards. Coins One of the four suits in a Latin-suited pack of cards. Symbol: or color, colour In French-suited packs, this is the colour of the suit symbols...
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Hackl or Ecker) is one of the four playing card suits in a deck of German-suited and Swiss-suited playing cards. This suit was invented in 15th-century German-speaking...
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Queen of spades (category Playing cards)
spades (Q♠) is a face card in decks of French-suited playing cards and Tarot, depicting a queen of the spades (♠) suit and associated with the Greek goddess...
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playing cards (Polish: Karty polskie) have been manufactured since the 15th century and include both French- and German-suited cards. Polish playing cards...
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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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given to the suit in Italian-suited cards where the symbols look like batons. 'Clubs' refers to the suit in Spanish-suited cards where the symbols look more...
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Bicycle Playing Cards is a brand of playing cards. Since 1885, the Bicycle brand has been manufactured by the United States Printing Company, which, in...
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four playing card suits in a deck of Swiss-suited and German-suited playing cards. Unlike the other German suits, this suit was not adapted by French card...
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Face card (redirect from Court cards (playing cards))
court cards may be different. For example, in Italian- and Spanish-suited packs there is a Knight or Cavalier instead of a Queen. In French-suited Tarot...
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the 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...
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