"Savate Savate (), also known as boxe française, savate boxing, French boxing or French footfighting, is a French combat sport that uses the hands and feet as weapons combining elements of English boxing with graceful kicking techniques. Only foot kicks are allowed, unlike some systems such as Muay Thai, which allow the use of the knees or shins. ""Savate"" is a French word for ""old shoe or boot"". Savate fighters wear specially designed boots. A male practitioner of savate is called a tireur while a female is called a tireuse. Savate takes its name from the French for ""old shoe"""
"Suit of swords The Suit of Swords is used in Latin suited playing cards, such Spanish, Italian and tarot decks. It corresponds to the Suit of Spades in standard decks. In tarot, it is part of what is called the ""Minor Arcana"". Like the other tarot suits, it contains fourteen cards: ace (one), two through ten, page, knight, queen and king. The suit represents the Second Estate (The Nobles). Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play Tarot card games. In English-speaking countries, where the games are largely unknown, Tarot cards came to be utilized primarily for divinatory"
"Saboteur (card game) Saboteur is a mining-themed card game, designed by Frederic Moyersoen and published in 2004 by Z-Man Games. Players are assigned either a """"Miner"""" or a """"Saboteur"""" role, and given a mixed hand of path and action cards, and take turns in succession playing one card from their hand (or discarding it) and collecting a new one from the draw pile. Miners may play a path card in order to progress in building a tunnel from a special card which represents the mine start to one of the three special cards that represent possible gold locations (only one"
"A game is composed of three such rounds, so the majority of the players have a chance at playing both roles. At the end of the three rounds, the player with the most gold nuggets wins. Saboteur (card game) Saboteur is a mining-themed card game, designed by Frederic Moyersoen and published in 2004 by Z-Man Games. Players are assigned either a """"Miner"""" or a """"Saboteur"""" role, and given a mixed hand of path and action cards, and take turns in succession playing one card from their hand (or discarding it) and collecting a new one from the draw pile. Miners"
"Knight of Wands Knight of Wands or Batons is a card used in Latin suited playing cards which include tarot decks. It is part of what tarot card readers call the ""Minor Arcana"". Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play tarot card games. In English-speaking countries, where the games are largely unknown, Tarot cards came to be utilized primarily for divinatory purposes. The questing knight, this man traditionally signifies travel, and progress. This also refers to new ideas and inventions. He looks forward, intelligent and knowledgeable, and yet ready for battle and full of fire. The reversed"
"Spades (suit) Spades or (four-colour suit) is one of the four suits of playing cards in the standard French deck. It is a black heart turned upside down with a stalk at its base and symbolises the medieval weapons, the pike or halberd. In French the suit of Spades is known as the Pique and in German as the Pik. It corresponds to the suit of Leaves (""Laub"", ""Grün"", ""Schippen"" or, in Bavaria, ""Gras"") in the German suited playing cards. In Switzerland, the suit is known as ""Schuufle"" (""shovel"") and in many German regions, e.g. the Rhineland as ""Schüppe/Schippe"" (""shovel"")."
"Écarté Écarté is an old French casino game that is still played today. It is a two-player card game, the word literally meaning ""discarded"". It is a trick-taking game, similar to whist, but with a special and eponymous discarding phase. It is closely related to Euchre, a card game played mainly in the United States. Écarté was popular in the 19th century, but is now rarely played. All cards from two to six are removed from a 52-card pack, to produce the Piquet pack of thirty-two cards, which rank from the lowest 7, 8, 9, 10, ace, knave, queen, to"
"Babette (card game) Babette is a solitaire card game that uses two decks of playing cards shuffled together. Its game play is similar to that of the game Labyrinth. First, a row of eight cards are dealt. These eight cards will be bases for eight columns to be formed during the game. The object of the game is to put one Ace and one King of each suit to become bases for foundations whenever available and built each by suit; Aces are built up while Kings are built down. The cards in the tableau columns are available only to be"
"Knight (playing card) A knight or cavalier is a playing card with a picture of a man riding a horse on it. It is a face card and is called ""caballo"" in Spanish playing cards and ""cavallo"" in Italian playing cards. In these decks, it ranks between the knave and the king within its suit. Among French playing cards, the knight (""chevalier"") can only be found in tarot decks. In Latin and French suited tarot decks, the knight ranks between the knave and the queen. Knights do not appear in German or Swiss playing cards; their place being occupied by"
"cards, in which the swords represented scimitars and the batons polo mallets. In this abstraction, the Tarot, and the Italian playing cards tradition, diverges from that of Spanish playing cards, in which swords and batons are drawn as distinct objects. Cups and coins are drawn as distinct objects. Most decks fill up blank areas of the cards with floral decorations. The two of cups typically contains a floral caduceus-like symbol terminating in two heraldic dolphin heads. The two of coins usually joins the two coins by a ribbon motif; the ribbon is a conventional place for the manufacturer to include"
"decision. Knight of Swords Knight of Swords is a card used in Latin suited playing cards which include tarot decks. It is part of what tarot card readers call the ""Minor Arcana"". Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play tarot card games. In English-speaking countries, where the games are largely unknown, Tarot cards came to be utilized primarily for divinatory purposes. According to Waite, he is described as riding in full course, as if scattering his enemies. This fits well, as Waite associates it, among other things, with war and wrath. The Knight of Swords is often"
"purposes. In tarot, swords correspond to the element of Air, and as such signifies freedom but also quick change. The Swords suit also traditionally represented the military, which implies strength, power and authority, but also responsibility, violence and suffering. Suit of swords The Suit of Swords is used in Latin suited playing cards, such Spanish, Italian and tarot decks. It corresponds to the Suit of Spades in standard decks. In tarot, it is part of what is called the ""Minor Arcana"". Like the other tarot suits, it contains fourteen cards: ace (one), two through ten, page, knight, queen and king."
"Baccarat (card game) Baccarat or baccara (; ) is a card game played at casinos. It is a comparing card game played between two hands, the ""player"" and the ""banker"". Each baccarat coup (round of play) has three possible outcomes: ""player"" (player has the higher score), ""banker"", and ""tie"". There are three popular variants of the game: ""punto banco"" (or ""North American baccarat""), ""baccarat chemin de fer"" (or ""chemmy""), and ""baccarat banque"" (or ""à deux tableaux""). In ""punto banco"", each player's moves are forced by the cards the player is dealt. In ""baccarat chemin de fer"" and ""baccarat banque"", by"
"The remainder of this article refers to the Malaysian version of pontoon. Pontoon is the British or domestic version of black jack, which in turn is the American version of ""vingt-et-un"" (French for twenty-one), a French gambling game popular at the court of Louis XV and later, much favoured by Napoleon, especially at St. Helena. In the twentieth century it became the most popular game of the armed forces of English-speaking nations. Pontoon, unlike casino Blackjack, has no official rules and varies widely from school to school. Its name may be a corruption of the name of the similar French"
"Knight of Swords Knight of Swords is a card used in Latin suited playing cards which include tarot decks. It is part of what tarot card readers call the ""Minor Arcana"". Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play tarot card games. In English-speaking countries, where the games are largely unknown, Tarot cards came to be utilized primarily for divinatory purposes. According to Waite, he is described as riding in full course, as if scattering his enemies. This fits well, as Waite associates it, among other things, with war and wrath. The Knight of Swords is often taken"
"meaning of the card is insecurity and fear of revealing one's true self. The key meanings of the Knight of Wands: are challenge, determination, foreign travel, leadership, and unpredictability. Knight of Wands Knight of Wands or Batons is a card used in Latin suited playing cards which include tarot decks. It is part of what tarot card readers call the ""Minor Arcana"". Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play tarot card games. In English-speaking countries, where the games are largely unknown, Tarot cards came to be utilized primarily for divinatory purposes. The questing knight, this man traditionally"
"cards. The combinations ""pair"" and ""point"" are not recognized. Commerce (card game) Commerce is a 19th-century gambling French card game akin to Thirty-one and perhaps ancestral to Whisky Poker and Bastard Brag. It aggregates a variety of games with the same game mechanics. Trade and Barter, the English equivalent, has the same combinations, but a different way of acquiring them. Trentuno, ""Trent-et-Uno"", applies basically to the same method of play, but also has slightly different combinations. Like other games of the Commerce group, the aim is to finish with the best three-card combination in hand. The players can try to"
"Baloot Baloot (, balōt ), is a popular trick card game played in GCC Countries, which is similar to the French game Belote. The game is similar to the French Belote. The similarity between the games rules is unknown. Baloot is believed that it was brought to Hijaz by the Indian immigrants during the Ottoman Empire, then it spread to all over the country when it was unified under the Saudi rule. Some suggest that it was brought to the area of Hijaz by the Ottomans themselves when they ruled that area. There are four players in partnerships of two"
"of wands: Six of Wands Six of wands or batons is a card used in Latin-suited playing cards, which include tarot decks. It is part of what tarot card readers call the ""Minor Arcana,"" the six of wands cards in divination decks with illustrated pip cards, displays a laureled horseman bearing a staff adorned with laurel crown. Footmen with staves are at his side. Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play tarot card games. In English-speaking countries, where the games are largely unknown, tarot cards came to be utilized primarily for divinatory purposes. The key meanings of"
"game. Pontoon is an arithmetical game played on a table with the same layout as blackjack. In each deal, the player's aim is to receive cards totalling more in face value than the banker's, but not exceeding 21, otherwise he is ""bust"" and loses. A 21 consisting of an ace and a card worth 10 is a pontoon, and pays extra. A player's 21 or pontoon always beats a dealer 21 or pontoon. Like Spanish 21, it is played from either a shoe or a 4-deck continuous shuffling machine (CSM). The shoe games use six or eight Spanish decks, which"
"Suit of coins The Suit of Coins is one of the four suits used in Latin suited playing cards, such as Spanish, Italian and tarot decks. It corresponds to the Suit of Diamonds in standard decks. In occult uses of tarot, Coins is considered part of the ""Minor Arcana"", and may alternately be known as ""Pentacles"", though this has no basis in its original use for card games. Like the other tarot suits, it contains fourteen cards: ace (one), two through ten, page, knight, queen and king. In occult and divinatory usage the suit is connected with the classical element"
"names of ""Bâtons"" (Batons), ""Épées"" (Swords), ""Coupes"" (Cups), and ""Deniers"" (Coins). These count from Ace to 10. There was also an archaic practice of ranking the cards 10 to Ace for the suit of cups and coins in line with all other tarot games outside of Sicily. As well, there are four face cards in each suit: a ""Valet"" (Knave or Page), ""Chevalier"" or ""Cavalier"" (Horse-rider or Knight), ""Dame"" (Queen) and ""Roi"" (King). Occultists (and many tarot readers nowadays, whether English- or French-speaking) call this series the Minor Arcana (or ""Arcanes Mineures"", in French). The court cards are sometimes called"
"(10-12). Since the mid-20th century, they have usually been sold with two ""comodines"" (Jokers), for a total of 50 cards. Stripped decks have 40 cards and lack ranks 8, 9 and ""comodines"". The popularity of the stripped deck is due to game of Ombre, which became a craze throughout Europe during the 17th century. The Spanish suits closely resemble Italian-suited cards as both were derived from the Arab cards. The four suits are ""bastos"" (clubs), ""oros"" (literally ""golds"", that is, golden coins), ""copas"" (cups) and ""espadas"" (swords). Unlike the suits found in northern Italy, Spanish swords are straight and the"
"of which is effectively gold, but the players do not know which when the game begins as they are placed face down), while Saboteurs try to play path cards which actually hinder such progress (for example by ending paths or making them turn in opposite directions). Either player can instead play an action card, which have varying effects such as blocking other players from building paths (breaking their tools, in the game's analogy) or unblocking themselves or other players (usually the ones they believe to share the same role of either Miner or Saboteur). Action cards can also be used"
"Suit of cups The Suit of Cups or Suit of Goblets is one of the four suits of Latin-suited playing cards. These are used in Spain (""Copas""), Italy (""Coppe"") and in tarot. The suit of hearts is derived from the suit of cups. These are sometimes referred to as chalices as well as cups. In tarot, it is part of what is called the ""Minor Arcana"". Like the other tarot suits, it contains fourteen cards: ace (one), two through ten, page, knight, queen and king. The suit represents the First Estate (the Clergy). Tarot cards are used throughout much of"
"Commerce (card game) Commerce is a 19th-century gambling French card game akin to Thirty-one and perhaps ancestral to Whisky Poker and Bastard Brag. It aggregates a variety of games with the same game mechanics. Trade and Barter, the English equivalent, has the same combinations, but a different way of acquiring them. Trentuno, ""Trent-et-Uno"", applies basically to the same method of play, but also has slightly different combinations. Like other games of the Commerce group, the aim is to finish with the best three-card combination in hand. The players can try to improve their hands by swapping one or more of"
"Spade are defined: The French word ""pique"" meant ""spear"" or ""lance"". Spades (suit) Spades or (four-colour suit) is one of the four suits of playing cards in the standard French deck. It is a black heart turned upside down with a stalk at its base and symbolises the medieval weapons, the pike or halberd. In French the suit of Spades is known as the Pique and in German as the Pik. It corresponds to the suit of Leaves (""Laub"", ""Grün"", ""Schippen"" or, in Bavaria, ""Gras"") in the German suited playing cards. In Switzerland, the suit is known as ""Schuufle"" (""shovel"")"
"is called ""Deniers"" (""silver coins""). The picture cards are ""Valet"" (Page), ""Chevalier"" (Horseman or Knight), ""Reine"" (Queen), and ""Roi"" (King). This suit was later changed to Diamonds. German and Swiss decks use round ""Schellen"" (""Hawk Bells"") instead. Suit of coins The Suit of Coins is one of the four suits used in Latin suited playing cards, such as Spanish, Italian and tarot decks. It corresponds to the Suit of Diamonds in standard decks. In occult uses of tarot, Coins is considered part of the ""Minor Arcana"", and may alternately be known as ""Pentacles"", though this has no basis in its"
"Seven of Swords Seven of Swords is a Minor Arcana tarot card. Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play Tarot card games. In English-speaking countries, where the games are largely unknown, Tarot cards came to be utilized primarily for divinatory purposes. A hasty decision, greed and/or thoughtless behavior, the individual acts in an impulsive fashion. It represents secret plans, hidden dishonor, frustration and the possibility of failure. The Seven of Swords, when upright means to use your wits for diplomacy and not to use aggression, this is why it can be viewed as secret planning or hidden"
"Seven of Swords Seven of Swords is a Minor Arcana tarot card. Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play Tarot card games. In English-speaking countries, where the games are largely unknown, Tarot cards came to be utilized primarily for divinatory purposes. A hasty decision, greed and/or thoughtless behavior, the individual acts in an impulsive fashion. It represents secret plans, hidden dishonor, frustration and the possibility of failure. The Seven of Swords, when upright means to use your wits for diplomacy and not to use aggression, this is why it can be viewed as secret planning or hidden"
"one of the three special cards that represent possible gold locations (only one of which is effectively gold, but the players do not know which when the game begins as they are placed face down), while saboteurs try to play path cards which actually hinder such progress (for example by ending paths or making them turn in opposite directions). However, in Saboteur 2 the miners are split into two teams - green and blue - and it is possible for the teams to compete, stopping each other with locked coloured doors. The Boss plays as a miner, but is not"
"and a Queen of a trump suit, possibly yielding the game's name itself. Variations on the game include ""Baloot"" in Saudi Arabia, and Pilotta in Cyprus. German style cards are used widely in former Yugoslav countries for playing this card game. Belote is played with a deck of 32 cards (A, K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7) The game is played differently in different locations, but most versions share a considerable set of common rules. The rules below describe the common version of this game. A typical 32-card piquet deck is used, 4 suits with 8 ranks, or {}"
"By the time of Elizabeth's reign, gambling was a common sport. Cards were not played only by the upper class. Many of the lower classes had access to playing cards. The card suits tended to change over time. The first Italian and Spanish decks had the same suits: Swords, Batons/ Clubs, Cups, and Coins. The suits often changed from country to country. England probably followed the Latin version, initially using cards imported from Spain but later relying on more convenient supplies from France. Most of the decks that have survived use the French Suit: Spades, Hearts, Clubs, and Diamonds. Yet"