"Ace of spades The ace of spades (also known as the spadille) is traditionally the highest and most valued card in the deck of playing cards, at least in English-speaking countries. The actual value of the card varies from game to game. The ornate design of the ace of spades, common in packs today, stems from the 17th century, when James I and later Queen Anne imposed laws requiring the ace of spades to bear an insignia of the printing house. Stamp duty, an idea imported to England by Charles I, was extended to playing cards in 1711 by Queen"
"Quadrille (patience) Quadrille, also called Captive Queens, La Française or Partner is a card game of the Patience or Solitaire type using a pack of 52 playing cards. The name Quadrille is derived from the layout of the four Queens around which the cards are built; an alternative name, Captive Queens, describes the way the Queens become ""enclosed"" as the foundations are built upon. Alluding to the name, Quadrille, Parlett describes it as ""a pleasant little pictorial which may be said to represent the dance of the cardboard court."" There are two variants: Either way, the role of the Queens"
"permitted. The game is won when all the cards are in the foundations with the court cards (Kings and Jacks) at the top of each foundation, as shown on the right. Quadrille (patience) Quadrille, also called Captive Queens, La Française or Partner is a card game of the Patience or Solitaire type using a pack of 52 playing cards. The name Quadrille is derived from the layout of the four Queens around which the cards are built; an alternative name, Captive Queens, describes the way the Queens become ""enclosed"" as the foundations are built upon. Alluding to the name, Quadrille,"
"“Spadille” or “Basto”, must take the role as Ombre, or by eldest if no one does. He discards up to 8 cards, draws replacements from the stock and then announces trumps. The game counts as “Entrada”. Ombre may be played sometimes by two players, for lack of a third person. It is played exactly as for three hands, but a whole suit is removed from the pack, either Diamonds or Hearts, so that 30 cards remain. Deal eight cards in batches of 2's and stock the remaining 12 on the table. Ombre may take as many cards as he wants"
"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"")."
"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"")"
"Quadrille (card game) Quadrille is a card game that was popular in the 18th century. A variant of the Spanish card game Ombre, it is played by four players in pairs, with a deck of 40 cards (the 8's, 9's and 10's being removed). By the end of the 19th century, the card game had fallen out of fashion. The novel ""Pride and Prejudice"" includes four references to the quadrille card game being played by an upper class character, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, and her guests. In the ""Diary of Thomas Vernon"", which was written by a loyalist from Newport,"
"Manille Manille (; derived from the Spanish and Catalan ""Malilla"") is a French trick-taking card game which uses a 32 card deck. It spread to the rest of France in the early 20th century, but was subsequently checked and reversed by the expansion of Belote. It is still popular in France (primarily the north and south-west) and the western part of Belgium. The game is played with a 32-card piquet deck. It is usually played by four players in two partnerships, but variants with two or three players also exist. The 32 cards are distributed equally between the four players,"
"from his/her hand and replace them with the face down cards (without looking at them). The team that wins the first trick can add the 2 reserve cards to their winnings. The dealer always plays against the 2 other players effectively alternating your partner throughout the game. Manille Manille (; derived from the Spanish and Catalan ""Malilla"") is a French trick-taking card game which uses a 32 card deck. It spread to the rest of France in the early 20th century, but was subsequently checked and reversed by the expansion of Belote. It is still popular in France (primarily the"
"Brandeln Brandeln, sometimes Anglicized as Brandle, is an historical card game for four players in which three play against a soloist. It is still played in Germany today. The game is played with 28 cards from a 32-card deck of French playing cards with the Eights removed. In the trump suit the Jack (""Bube"") and the Seven are the highest trumps; the ranking runs thus: Jack > Seven > Ace > King > Queen (""Dame"") > Ten > Nine In the other suits the ranking of card values for taking tricks is the usual: Ace > King > Queen >"
"Enflé Enflé, Rolling Stone or Schweller is a trick-taking card game for 3 or more players, which has been described as a ""simple but maddening game"". Schweller is played with 32 French playing cards, or 52 if there are more than four players. The aim is to be the first to completely shed all one's cards. The card ranking is Aces high i.e. Ace > King > Queen > Jack > 10 > 9 > 8 > 7 (>6 > 5 > 4 > 3 > 2). Players must follow suit and the highest card of the led suit wins"
"Rhode Island, during the American Revolution in 1776, the author mentions playing quadrille frequently while exiled in Glocester, Rhode Island, during the war. It is also frequently mentioned in ""The Diary of a Country Parson 1758-1802"" kept by James Woodforde, edited by John Beresford. Quadrille (card game) Quadrille is a card game that was popular in the 18th century. A variant of the Spanish card game Ombre, it is played by four players in pairs, with a deck of 40 cards (the 8's, 9's and 10's being removed). By the end of the 19th century, the card game had fallen"
"spade symbol is a very stylized spearhead shape, pointing upwards, the bottom widening into two arcs of a circle and sweeping towards the centre to then form a sort of foot. Generally, spades are black. They form one of the two major suits in Bridge (with Hearts). The following gallery shows the spades in a 52-card deck of French playing cards. Not shown is the Knight of Spades used in Tarot card games: The symbol ♠ is already in the computer code set CP437 and therefore also part of Windows WGL4. In Unicode a black ♠ and a white ♤"
"Pinochle Pinochle () or binocle (sometimes pinocle, or penuchle) is a trick-taking, Ace-Ten card game typically for two to four players and played with a 48-card deck. It is derived from the card game bezique; players score points by trick-taking and also by forming combinations of cards into melds. It is thus considered part of a ""trick-and-meld"" category which also includes the game belote. Each hand is played in three phases: bidding, melds, and tricks. The standard game today is called ""partnership auction pinochle."" Pinochle derives from the game bezique. Its name comes from the French word ""binocle"" meaning ""eyeglasses""."
"always the highest trump, and the queen of spades or ""baste"" is always the third highest trump. Both do not count as members of their natural suits. The trump seven or ""manille"" is elevated to the rank of second highest trump. Below that the cards rank normally, except for omitting the queen if it is black. Thus depending on whether the trump suit is black or red, it contains 10 or 9 cards. Black plain suits contain 7 cards, and red plain suits contain 8 cards. Trick-play is as in Whist. Eldest hand leads to the first trick. Players must"
"Quadrat (patience) Quadrat (""Square"") or Viereck (""Rectangle"") is a simple, German patience game, which is played with a French pack of 32 or 52 cards. Zudecken (""Covering"") is a very similar patience with slightly altered rules. As with most patiences, Quadrat is a card game for one person. The cards, either a Skat pack of 32 or a single Rommé parkc of 52 cards, are shuffled and placed face down as a stock in front of the player. The top four cards are picked up and placed face up on the table in a tableau the shape of a rectangle."
"strength of each manilha depends on the stamp, which follows (strongest to weakest): clubs (zap), hearts (copas), spades (espadilha), diamonds (pica-fumo). Many times jargon is used to make the other team believe one's team has better or worse cards than it really does. For instance: if one is holding the As of spades and a worthless card he could say ""estou seco"" I'm dry, to indicate he hasn't got any better cards so that the other team will go for a truco on the last hand. Truco Truco is a variant of Truc and a popular trick-taking card game originally"
"Leaves (card suit) Leaves are one of the four suits in German-suited decks of playing cards. They correspond to Spades in a French deck. The leaf symbol originates from the Sword symbol of the Latin card decks. As its name suggests, the leaf is represented by a stylized green leaf. The left half is lighter than the right half; it can sometimes be yellow. veins are visible and there is usually a petiole. There may also be smaller leaves. They are usually known in German as Laub (""foliage""), but also as Gras (""grass""), Blatt (""leaf"") or Grün (""green""). Cards are"
"called Hide-and-Seek (""Versteckenspiel""), there are 13 piles from Ace to Two, laid out face-down this time in a row of seven and a row of six. The first pickup is from the Ace pile; thereafter shuttling takes place as described above. Travellers (card game) Travellers, also known as All Fours, Clock, Four of a Kind, Hidden Cards, Hunt, Sundial or Watch is a card game of the patience genre which uses a single card pack of either 52 or 32 playing cards. Parlett notes that the game has a ""rhythmical feature that might be called 'shuttling'"", as in the game"
"Standard 52-card deck The deck of French playing cards is the most common deck of playing cards used today. It includes thirteen ranks of each of the four French suits: clubs (), diamonds (), hearts () and spades (), with reversible ""court"" or face cards. Each suit includes an ace, depicting a single symbol of its suit; a king, queen and jack, each depicted with a symbol of its suit; and ranks two through ten, with each card depicting that many symbols (""pips"") of its suit. Anywhere from one to six (most often two or three since the mid-20th century)"
"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 right column and the Queens at the left. Gavotte or Odds and Evens (also known in Lee and Packard's book as Palace) is a solitaire variant of Royal Cotillion. It has two differences to the parent game: It is a rare solitaire game which is found only in ""The Complete Book of Solitaire and Patience Games"" and is playable as a JSolitaire game. ""See: solitaire terminology"" Royal Cotillion Royal Cotillion is a solitaire card game which uses two decks of 52 playing cards each. The name probably derives from the fact that since the two kings and two queens"
"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"
"the face-down stack of cards in the middle of the table – in other games known as the ""talon"" or ""stock"". The names of other card games are also derived from it, including ""Tappu"" or ""Tappä"" for the Swiss Tarock variant of Troggu, as well as the Austrian Stubaital valley game of Dobbm. Other names for Tapp Tarock were Tarock-Tapp(en), or just Tappen or Tapper. Because the announcement """"ich tappe"""" (""I'll tapp"") referred to the lowest level of the game, it soon became fashionable to name the game after the next highest level, Dreiern or Dreierl. In the late 19th"
"four 14-card suits of swords (""spade""), batons (""bastoni""), cups (""coppe""), and coins (""denari""). Each suit has a king (""re""), queen (""donna""), knight (""cavallo"") and jack (unlabelled), pip cards numbered from 2 to 10, and an unnumbered card with an elaborate suit symbol which acts as the ace. Trumps and most pip cards have indices in modern Arabic numerals (for trumps, cups, and coins) or Roman numerals (for swords and batons). Unusually, in most games trump 20 outranks trump 21 (this may have been influenced by Bolognese games). The order of the trumps, in most games played with this pack, is:"
"Italian playing cards Playing cards (""carte da gioco"") have been in Italy since the late 14th century. As Latin suited cards, they use swords (""spade""), cups (""coppe""), coins (""denari""), and clubs (""bastoni""). All Italian suited decks have three face cards per suit: the ""fante"" (Knave), ""cavallo"" (Knight), and ""re"" (King), unless it is a tarocchi deck in which case a ""donna"" or ""regina"" (Queen) is inserted between the ""cavallo"" and ""re"". Italian suited cards normally only refer to cards originating from northeastern Italy around the former Republic of Venice as the rest of Italy uses Spanish suits, French suits or"
"without bidding if their score reaches (and remains above) the agreed upon game-ending score while their opponents fail to make their bid three times. This is known as a ""slide-out"". Pinochle Pinochle () or binocle (sometimes pinocle, or penuchle) is a trick-taking, Ace-Ten card game typically for two to four players and played with a 48-card deck. It is derived from the card game bezique; players score points by trick-taking and also by forming combinations of cards into melds. It is thus considered part of a ""trick-and-meld"" category which also includes the game belote. Each hand is played in three"
"his book ""Card Games for One""), it is generally a bad idea to release a card that is above a gap before its duplicate is dealt, unless it is necessary to free up an important card. The game is lost, he said, when the wrong card has been played. 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"
"Spades Spades is a trick-taking card game devised in the United States in the 1930s. It can be played as either a partnership or solo/""cutthroat"" game. The object is to take at least the number of tricks (also known as ""books"") that were bid before play of the hand began. Spades is a descendant of the Whist family of card games, which also includes Bridge, Hearts, and Oh Hell. Its major difference as compared to other Whist variants is that, instead of trump being decided by the highest bidder or at random, the Spade suit always trumps, hence the name."
"cards, when captured by the high bidder, lower the point threshold needed to fulfill the contract. In colloquial French, ""oudlers"" are often referred to as ""bouts"" (ends). The ranking of the hearts, clubs, diamonds and spades from the top is: King, Queen, Knight, Jack, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 (Ace). As an aside, the trumps and Fool can be removed to yield a 56-card deck very similar to a 52-card French deck but with the additional ""Cavalier"" (knight, lit. horseman) court card in each suit. This deck configuration, plus the Fool, was copied using culture-neutral"
"Slapjack Slapjack, also known as Slaps, is a simple standard-deck card game, generally played among children. It can often be a child's first introduction to playing cards. The game is related to Egyptian Ratscrew and is also sometimes known as Heart Attack. It is also related to the simpler 'slap' card games often called snap. A 52-card deck is divided into face-down stacks as equally as possible between all players. One player removes the top card of their stack and places it face-up on the playing surface within reach of all players. The players take turns doing this in a"
"Pedro (card game) Pedreaux (pronounced ""peedro"") is an American trick-taking card game of the All Fours family based on Auction Pitch. Its most popular variant is known as Cinch, Double Pedro or High Five. Developed in Denver, Colorado, in the 1880s, it was soon regarded as the most important member of the All Fours family. Although it went out of fashion with the rise of Auction Bridge, it is still widely played on the western coast of the United States and in its southern states, being the dominant game in some locations in Louisiana. Forms of the game have been"
"to win the majority of the tricks. A French suited pack of 32 or 36 cards is used. The Trump Queen is only relevant when the trump suit is Hearts or Diamonds, because the Queen of Clubs and Queen of Spades are permanent trumps known as ""Olsch"" and ""Basta"" respectively (see below). The Trump Six is only used in six-hand games, because only 32 cards are used when there are 4 or 8 players. The ranking of the cards is as follows: The following is based on McLeod. Players are dealt all the available cards in packets of 2 or,"