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...

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...

(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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

China. The game is played by four players, sitting opposite each other in partnerships, and uses two decks of standard international playing cards (including...

mathematics at the ENS, starts playing Mah-jong to earn money. China portal Asia portal Games portal Chinese playing cards Japanese Mahjong Khanhoo Madiao...

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...

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...

The second season of the American television drama series House of Cards began filming a set of 13 episodes on April 29, 2013, and concluded on November...

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...

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

(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...

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...

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...

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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...

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Another unique feature is a special status given to owning 5 cards unbusted. Although Chinese Blackjack has some standard rules, unusual house rules are...