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)...

Duyang (Chinese: 杜阳杂编; pinyin: Dùyáng zábiān), written by Tang dynasty writer Su E, is often cited in connection to the existence of playing cards. However...

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 to be the...

card was also common. While playing cards were invented in China, Chinese playing cards do not have a concept of court cards, though two entire suits featured...

compendium of games. In China, early "domino" tiles were functionally identical to playing cards. An identifiable version of Chinese dominoes developed in...

cards are used in Spain, Southern Italy, parts of France, Hispanic America, North Africa, and the Philippines. Playing cards, originally of Chinese origin...

are printed on the cards. Chess cards clearly are more recent than money-suited and domino Chinese playing cards. Classical Chinese encyclopedias seem...

(Japanese: 花札, lit. 'flower cards') are a type of Japanese playing cards. They are typically smaller than Western playing cards, only 5.4 by 3.2 centimetres...

Zi pai (Chinese: 字牌; trans. "character cards"; also paohuzi, Chinese: 跑胡子) are Chinese playing cards that are popular mainly in the southern part of mainland...

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...

instead of pips. In China, early "domino" tiles were functionally identical to playing cards. An identifiable version of Chinese dominoes developed in...

Playing Cards (French: Une partie de cartes, literally "A Card Party") is an 1896 French black-and-white silent actuality film by Georges Méliès. It was...

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...

irrelevant in playing dou dizhu. Players can easily play the game with a set of dou dizhu playing cards, without the suits printed on the cards. Less popular...

India, China and Korea also have traditional packs of playing cards. The Indian ganjifa cards are usually round, and have 8, 10 12 cards each. Chinese playing...

derived from the Chinese chi-p'ai (= 紙牌 zhǐpái) meaning "playing cards" In a related passage, William Chatto explains that an early Chinese term was ya-pae...

(also called China Hand, Ten-Two Slide, Karma, Palace or Shed) is a card game, the object of which is to lose all of one's playing cards. There are many...

Gow or Tin Kau (Chinese: 天九; pinyin: tiān jiǔ; Jyutping: tin1 gau2; lit. 'Heaven and Nine') is the name of Chinese gambling games played with either a pair...

Rummy is a group of games related by the feature of matching cards of the same rank or sequence and same suit. The basic goal in any form of rummy is...

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experienced opponents. Chinese poker is typically played as a four-person game, though it can also be played with two or three. In Chinese poker, each player...

the set is the 108 suited tiles which were inherited from Chinese money-suited playing cards. The Wind honor tiles and the Four Seasons tiles were also...

Playing Cards: U+1F0A2 🂢 PLAYING CARD TWO OF SPADES U+1F0B2 🂲 PLAYING CARD TWO OF HEARTS U+1F0C2 🃂 PLAYING CARD TWO OF DIAMONDS U+1F0D2 🃒 PLAYING...

785. Needham 1954, pp. 131–132. Wilkinson, W.H. (1895). "Chinese Origin of Playing Cards". American Anthropologist. VIII (1): 61–78. doi:10.1525/aa...

paintings ascribed to the Dogs Playing Poker moniker consist of anthropomorphized versions of dogs sitting around a poker table playing poker. The dogs presented...

and North would score +74. Chinese poker Dou di zhu (similar rules, played with three players) Gnau Zi pai Four color cards Daguai luzi also known as wild...

House of Cards is an American political thriller television series created by Beau Willimon. It is based on the 1989 novel of the same title by Michael...

Corresponding Games of China and Japan, University of Pennsylvania, 1895. Wilkinson, William H., ‘Chinese Origin of Playing Cards’, in The American Anthropologist...

The first Magic cards were printed exclusively in English, but current sets are also printed in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, German...

This list of poker playing card nicknames has some nicknames for the playing cards in a 52-card deck, as used in poker. For a list of words relating to...