Parts of Swiss German speaking Switzerland have their own deck of playing cards referred to as Swiss-suited playing cards or Swiss-suited cards. They are...
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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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Coins; German Switzerland uses Swiss suited cards with Acorns, Shields, yellow Roses and Bells; and many parts of Italy use Italian suited cards which have...
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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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Cœur, German: Herz) is one of the four playing card suits in a deck of French-suited and German-suited playing cards. However, the symbol is slightly different:...
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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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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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one of the 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...
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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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Tarot (redirect from Tarot playing cards)
for playing card games, are occasionally used for cartomancy. Like the common playing cards, tarot has four suits that vary by region: French suits are...
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other, traditional types of playing card, including those that are German, Italian, Spanish and Swiss-suited. Tarot cards (also known locally as Tarocks...
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of the four playing card suits in a deck of Swiss-suited playing cards. This suit was invented in 15th century German speaking Switzerland and is a survivor...
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Standard 52-card deck (redirect from Anglo-American playing cards)
standard 52-card deck[citation needed] of French-suited playing cards is the most common pack of playing cards used today. In English-speaking countries it...
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called Escutcheons, is one of the four playing card suits in a deck of Swiss-suited playing cards. This suit was invented in 15th century German speaking...
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the four playing card suits in the standard French-suited playing cards. It has the same shape as the leaf symbol in German-suited playing cards but its...
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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 Acorns in a German...
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Leaves () (German: Laub) is one of the four playing card suits in a deck of German-suited playing cards. This suit was invented in 15th century Germany and...
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G = German-suited cards, I = Italian-suited cards, Sp = Spanish-suited cards and Sw = Swiss-suited cards. French (4 x AQJT) packs: Baśka Kop French (4...
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Wenzel, Wenz or Bauer, and (in Swiss) also called the Under, is the court card in German and Swiss-suited playing cards that corresponds to the Jack in...
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(French: Carreau) is one of the four playing card suits in the standard French-suited playing cards. It is the only French suit to not have been adapted from...
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queen. In Italian and Spanish playing cards, the king immediately outranks the knight. In German and Swiss playing cards, the king immediately outranks...
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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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between the jack and the queen. Knights do not appear in German or Swiss playing cards; their place being occupied by an upper knave card called the Ober...
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Jass (category Swiss card games)
Vorarlberg, cards of the Salzburg pattern are used (see illustration). The game is traditionally played with Swiss suited playing cards east of the Brünig-Napf-Reuss...
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Ace (redirect from Ace (playing card))
of Tarot. London: Duckworth. pp. 25–55. John McLeod. "Games played with German suited cards". pagat.com/. Archived from the original on 28 December 2010...
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'below' or 'among') may refer to: Unter (playing card), the Jack card in German and Swiss-suited playing cards Unter Null, stage name of Erica Dunham,...
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is played. It likely had a total of 60 cards (four kings, forty pip cards and sixteen trumps). The forty-four plain-suited cards used birds as suit signs...
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Tarot card games (redirect from Tarock playing cards)
It was played by three players with a 66-card pack obtained by removing the 3 lowest cards of each suit from a standard 78-card, Italian-suited tarot pack...
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Card game (redirect from Games/Cards)
Kaiserspiel, Swiss game with a Swiss-suited pack of 48 cards Mus, a Basque game known since the 18th century, played with a Spanish deck of forty cards; Brisca...
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tarot deck consists of 78 cards, which can be split into two groups, the Major Arcana and Minor Arcana. French-suited playing cards can also be used; as can...
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