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    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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  • 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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    most wanted playing cards, similar cards made for Israel during Israel-Hamas war Archaeology awareness playing cards Desert Storm trading cards Manhunt (military)...
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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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    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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    outranks the queen. In Italian and Spanish playing cards, the king immediately outranks the knight. In German and Swiss playing cards, the king immediately...
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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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    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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    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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    (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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Ganjifa (category CS1 Italian-language sources (it))
    Gânjaphâ, is a card game and type of playing cards that are most associated with Persia and India. After Ganjifa cards fell out of use in Iran before the...
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    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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    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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    Batons (suit) (category Articles containing Italian-language text)
    of playing cards in the standard Latin deck along with the suits of cups, coins and swords. 'Batons' is the name usually given to the suit in Italian-suited...
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