"""Yarborough"" – on condition they paid him £1 each time they did not succeed! [1] http://www.rpbridge.net/7z77.htm Charles Anderson-Pelham, 2nd Earl of Yarborough Charles Anderson Worsley Anderson-Pelham, 2nd Earl of Yarborough (12 April 1809 – 7 January 1862) was a British nobleman who succeeded to the Earldom of Yarborough in 1846. Before his accession, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Newtown 1830–1831, Lincolnshire 1831–1832 and North Lincolnshire 1835–1846. Lord Yarborough gave his name to a hand of cards dealt in contract bridge that has no card higher than a nine (see Yarborough). The probability of getting a Yarborough is"
"to bury him, and has no reference to Poker. In the expansion Dead Money, the player can collect cards that make up the famous Dead Man's Hand (Black aces, black eights and the Queen of Spades) from around the ruins of the Sierra Madre casino for an achievement. In the Collectible Card Game, ""Doomtown"", where conflicts are resolved by playing card numbers on the game cards used to make poker hands, the Dead Man's Hand (specifically, both black aces, both black eights and the Jack of Diamonds) is the highest possible hand. In there is a group of werewolf hunters"
"Boston and Mariland, which appeared around the turn of the 19th century. With two preferred suits: Belle for permanent and Petite for each deal, it also features the addition of the Jack ♦ known as the ""carte de boston"", or simply Boston, as a permanent top trump. It contains the bids of Proposal, which may be accepted by another player, and Solo, for playing alone. Boston (card game) Boston is an 18th-century, trick-taking, card game played throughout the Western world apart from Britain, forming an evolutionary link between Hombre and Solo Whist. Apparently named after a key location in the"
"""Clob, Clobby, Clobiosh, Klob, Kalabrisasz, Bela, Cinq Cents, Zensa"". Other sources also list ""Klabberjass, Senserln, Clobyosh, Kalabrias, Klab, Clabber, Clobber, Clubby"". (For an earlier form see the history section.) It can be interpreted as a two-handed variant of Belote, and indeed three-handed Belote can be played in exactly the same way. Conversely, ""Tarbish"", a game played in Nova Scotia, is a four-handed partnership game variant of this game. Each player receives 6 cards, and another card is turned up to determine the preferred trump suit. Now players in turn get the chance to take the deal, i.e. bet to make"
"The Hierophant The Hierophant (V), in some decks named The Pope, is the fifth trump or Major Arcana card in most traditional Tarot decks. It is used in game playing as well as in divination. In many modern packs, the Hierophant is represented with his right hand raised in what is known esoterically as the blessing or benediction, with two fingers pointing skyward and two pointing down, thus forming a bridge between Heaven and Earth reminiscent of that formed by the body of The Hanged Man. The Hierophant is thus a true “pontiff”, in that he is the builder of"
"Jabberwocky (card game) Jabberwocky is a card game of the trick-taking variety, played by 3 to 5 players with a standard deck of cards and pencil and paper for scoring. Its object is to bet the number of tricks one is estimating to make and to fulfill this bet (which scores a point). The player who fulfills the most bets after 13 turns wins the game, and more than one player may tie it. It may have originated on the Island of Hawaiʻi in the early 1980s. This game was also played in Austria at about the same time. At"
"the only player with the chance to win on the cards dealt to him. Either he wins or discards one card to the player on his left who now has the chance to take that card or buy one from the stock to see if he wins or discards. The third player then has his turn of play and so on. The first to show a winning hand composed of ""eyes"", sequences and combinations, wins the game, usually played for money bet in a pot. In 1891 Sir William induced the card maker Charles Goodall to issue a special pack"
"Joker (playing card) The Joker is a playing card found in most modern card decks, as an addition to the standard four suits (clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades). The Joker originated in the United States during the Civil War and was created as a trump card for the game of Euchre. It has since been adopted into many other card games, where it may function as a wild card. The card is unique within the French pack in that it lacks an industry-wide standard appearance. In the game of Euchre, the highest trump card is the Jack of the trump"
"is not only a game of chance, depending on the distribution of the cards or the sequence in which the cards are being drawn. It is also a game of skill and expertise, specially in a two-handed game. A variation of the game can be played by using three decks comprising 90 cards, plus two Jokers to form a new sequence of meldings. There are only three suits in the deck: Nine cards from Ace through Nine, six Courts and one Joker (One Joker in a 2-hand game or two in a 3-hand game), which can replace any card. Only"
"player with the most sets. The game is the creation of Anne Abbott, a Beverly, Massachusetts clergyman's daughter and editor of a young people's literary journal. Abbott also designed the hugely popular mid-19th century card game, ""Dr. Busby."" Later decks included additional authors, but the authors represented in most decks are: Similar playing card games have been developed with decks having similar rules and set building mechanics. Some of these are: Authors (card game) Authors or, The Game of Authors is a card game for three to five players. The first ""Game of Authors"" was published by G. M. Whipple"
"a goal. You will find zero on the easy side (where speed becomes a specific advantage) and 100 on the difficult side. Side point: The original Krypto deck has 52 cards. If you have such a deck, play with 10 hands and two rounds with goals set by the other two cards - reveal the goals one at a time for each of the two game rounds. Ties can be broken by a Zero round and/or a 100 round. See also: Krypto (game) Krypto is a card game designed by Daniel Yovich in 1963 and published by Parker Brothers and"
"hand. Clabber is played by four players in fixed partnerships with partners sitting opposite (on tables where the length is longer than the width, players arrange themselves around the table, two on each side, with partners sitting diagonally opposite one another). Cards are dealt, from left to right (or clockwise), to opponent then partner, opponent to dealer. The deck consist of 24 of the standard 52 playing card deck: ace, king, queen, jack, ten, and nine of each of the suits. The card ranks from high to low, and their values are as follows: The team that takes the last"
"plastic swords, and Milton Bradley's fantasy-themed ""Dragonmaster"" (1981) that keeps score with colored plastic jewels, Barbu (card game) Barbu or Le Barbu, also known as Tafferan, is a trick-taking, compendium, card game similar to hearts where four players take turns leading seven different sub-games (known as contracts) over the course of 28 deals. Barbu originated in France in the early 20th century where it was especially popular with university students, and became a prominent game among French Bridge-players in the 1960s. The French version of the game was originally played with a stripped deck of 32 cards ranked seven to"
"the first Hand is crossed over the second and they are both stacked in a corner of the card table. These two hands are called the ""'Pots"""" (in Portuguese ""the dead""). While the Pots are being made, the dealer distributes eleven cards to each player one by one in a round-robin manner; these cards are called the players’ Hand(s). If during the dealing any mistake is made then (e.g., one card too many, one card too few, cards upturned) the Hands and the Pots must be re-dealt. Responsibility for dealing the cards always proceeds clockwise from Game to Game. The"
"hearts, and then rearranges the cards quickly to confuse the player about which card is which. The player is then given an opportunity to select one of the three cards. If the player correctly identifies the target card, the player gets the amount bet (the ""stake"") back, plus the same amount again; otherwise, the stake is lost. Since there are only three cards, the jack of spades and jack of clubs often complement the ""money card"", which is usually a queen. The queen is often a red card, typically the queen of hearts. Sometimes the ace of spades is used"
"braid/bone. All free cells can be used to hold cards from the waste that may be useful soon. The biggest decision for the success of the game is whether to start building the families up or down. Herring-Bone (card game) The Herring-Bone is a free cell solitaire card game that is played with 104 playing cards. It is also known as ""Braid"" or under its original German name ""Der Zopf"". The game needs little planning but plays well as medium hard solitaire rule. The English name was mentioned by ""Lady Cadogan's Illustrated Games of Solitaire or Patience"" in 1914. Build"
"Faro (card game) Faro, ""Pharaoh"", or ""Farobank"" is a late 17th-century French gambling card game. It is descended from Basset, and belongs to the Lansquenet and Monte Bank family of games due to the use of a banker and several players. Winning or losing occurs when cards turned up by the banker match those already exposed. It is not a direct relative of poker, but Faro was often just as popular, due to its fast action, easy-to-learn rules, and better odds than most games of chance. The game of Faro is played with only one deck of cards and admits"
"literally means ""the bearded"" (man), and phonetically ""the barb"" – a reference to the king of hearts' common depiction as a bearded monarch nonchalantly stabbing himself in the head. This card is of special significance in one of the seven contracts featured in the game. Four players (no partnerships) use a deck of 52 French suited cards (♠ ♣ ) ranking A (high) K Q J 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 (low). Players draw for high card to determine who will be the first declarer. For the next seven deals cards are shuffled and dealt by"
"be 81. Cribbage solitaire Cribbage solitaire (also known as cribbage patience) is a solitaire card game using a deck of 52 playing cards. It is based on the game of five-card cribbage, also known as the ""old game"", and is one of many solitaire card games based on those played by at least two players, best known of which is poker solitaire. First, twelve cards are dealt into two hands as if there are two players. The player looks at the first hand and discards two cards to contribute to an area known as the ""crib"". The player then looks"
"their hands. The cards used are marked as at present, although they differ from those of modern times for being narrower and longer. Eight of the cards lie on the table with the blank side uppermost, for the cards at that time had blank backs, while four remain in each of the other players hands. A particular in this painting is that one of the players is seen showing his cards, which are: the jack (knave) of hearts, the ace, 7 and 6 of clubs. The cover of the pack lying on the table displays two lions supporting a shield,"
"and does not correct it before the end of the trick. Possession of the ♣Q is not always dangerous. If it is well ""guarded"" and one can rely on it not being forced out by the Club leads of the other players, and one will, sooner or later, be able to discard it. As in Black Maria and those Misere hands which lend so much interest to Solo, one wants to conserve as long as possible the low cards which control the suit. Slobberhannes Slobberhannes is a trick-taking, card game of German origin for four players, in which the aim"
"a non-trump suit. The highest-ranking card in euchre is the Jack of the trump suit (called ""The Right Bower"" or ""Right"") then the other Jack of the same colour, (called ""The Left Bower"" or ""Left""). The cards are ranked, in descending order, J (of trump suit), J (same colour as trump suit), A, K, Q, 10, and 9 of the trump suit. The remaining cards rank in the usual order (the off-colour Jacks are not special) and the cards of those suits rank from high to low as A, K, Q, J, 10, and 9. Assume a hand is dealt"
"and ruffs the spade queen. Next, he enters his hand with the Q and ruffs another spade. He cashes the K, and reenters his hand with the K. At that point, North and West have only two trumps each—K 10 and J 9 respectively. Either a heart or a spade from South's hand completes the coup. A similar tactic can also be used to create an endplay situation, with similar results to the more ordinary trump coup: In this six-card ending, originally given as a whist hand, clubs are trumps and the lead is in the North hand. To win"
"the Maid, a card that is to be avoided. Joker (playing card) The Joker is a playing card found in most modern card decks, as an addition to the standard four suits (clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades). The Joker originated in the United States during the Civil War and was created as a trump card for the game of Euchre. It has since been adopted into many other card games, where it may function as a wild card. The card is unique within the French pack in that it lacks an industry-wide standard appearance. In the game of Euchre, the"
"Lanterloo Lanterloo or Loo is a 17th-century trick taking game of the Trump family of which many varieties are recorded. It belongs to a line of card games whose members include Nap, Euchre, Rams, Hombre, and Maw (Spoil Five). It is considered a modification of the game of ""All Fours"", another English game possibly of Dutch origin, in which the players replenish their hands after each round by drawing each fresh new cards from the pack. Under various spellings, like the French forms ""Lenterne"", ""Lenturlu"", ""Looterlu"", (meaning ""fiddlesticks"", a meaningless word equivalent to ""Lullay"", or ""Lulloo"", used in Lullabies), the"
"game, with the Jack of diamonds as the fifth card. The Coen Brothers' film ""The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"" features the hand in its first segment, where the character Buster Scruggs takes someone's place at a poker table who was dealt this hand before leaving, and subsequently refuses to play it. The hand is mentioned in the title track from Motörhead's ""Ace of Spades"". Dead man's hand The dead man's hand is a nickname for a particular poker hand, popularly a two-pair of black aces and black eights, although definitions of the hand have varied through the years. Such a"
"Boston (card game) Boston is an 18th-century, trick-taking, card game played throughout the Western world apart from Britain, forming an evolutionary link between Hombre and Solo Whist. Apparently named after a key location in the American War of Independence, it is probably a French game which was devised in France in the 1770s, combining the 52-card pack and logical ranking system of partnership Whist with a range of solo and alliance bids borrowed from Quadrille. Other lines of descent and hybridization produced the games of Twenty-five, Préférence and Skat. Its most common form is known as Boston de Fontainebleau or"
"already been cycled through, but preserving their original sequence. Decade (solitaire) and Accordion (solitaire) are a variation of One-Handed Solitaire using different criteria for discarding. One-Handed Solitaire One-Handed Solitaire, is a solitaire card game played with a traditional 52 card deck. It can be played in one hand and does not require a table, hence its name. Taking a standard, shuffled 52-card deck of playing cards (without Jokers), hold the deck face down in your hand. Draw from the back of the deck four cards and place them on top fanned out so that the suit and number can be"
"to draw card replacements in hope of improving their hand. Only the highest bidder may do this. Go around, bidding for the stock (the remaining 7 face-down cards). Bidding begins at 13 pence. According to Willughby, the Eldest must open bidding. Go around, raising 1 penny at a time, until no one raises. The winner pays out the amount bid, dividing it between the other two players. Winner of the Stock must discard 7 cards, then take in the stock. (Note that there are varying views on this: Parlett and Dafydd say to take in the stock first, then discard"
"lose (if someone has the other bower) they bypass playing the hand and simply ask if anyone has the other bower. Lay downs are an advanced skill reserved for veteran players to expedite game play, when everyone at the table can recognize that a hand is unbeatable. Euchre variations Euchre is a 19th-century trick-taking card game and has many variations. The addition of extra cards like 8 and 7 can usually add more uncertainty as for which trump cards are still in the opponent's hands during the course of the game. This uncertainty may be increased with the addition of"
"pre-determined amount into the pot. All players, without seeing, pick their card and place it on their forehead. This way, each player can see everyone else's cards. No player can see their own card. This variation is usually played as the very last hand of the game. Each player is dealt three or four cards. In this variation, any king or jack who has a side profile and only one eye visible (e.g., the king of diamonds, the jack of spades) is considered a wild card. This round generally begins when someone gets a trio, and is continued until some"
"to recontruct the exact deal and play of the cards. Ombre is a three-handed game in which a single player, originally known as Ombre or l'Hombre (the man), plays against his two opponents. The game is traditionally played with a forty-card Spanish-suited deck with suits of coins and cups (round) and swords and clubs (long), but when it spread to Northern Europe French-suited cards with suits of diamonds and hearts (red) and spades and clubs (black) were usually substituted. Once the cards are dealt, players bid for the right to choose what suit will be trumps. The trump maker (Ombre)"
"Spain. And with the addition of new rules to the original set of rules, or even variations on the rules that the game devised, it finally reached a level of development that made them become separate games, despite their common origin. So, as the Italian writer Berni said: ""The game is played differently in different places."" Daines Barrington, described an Elizabethan card party painted by Federico Zuccari, and that originally belonged to Lord Falkland, in which Lord Burleigh is represented playing at cards with three other persons, apparently of distinction, each having two rings on the same fingers of both"