"warrior) for the Jack of Hearts; Hector (mythological hero of the Iliad) for the jack of diamonds; and Lancelot or Judas Maccabeus for the jack of clubs. In some southern Italian decks, there are androgynous knaves that are sometimes referred to as maids. In the Sicilian Tarot deck, the knaves are unambiguously female and are also known as maids. As this deck also includes queens, it is the only traditional set to survive into modern times with two ranks of female face cards. This pack may have been influenced by the obsolete Portuguese deck which also had female knaves. The"
"Hector to the button that corresponds to the desired movement. In ""Memory"", the player has to make a list of commands to recreate the displayed block set up, and then R.O.B. follows the list afterward. In ""Bingo"", the player makes the shown block stack, where the color of the block does not matter. There are two enemies: one causes the player to lose a life, and the other makes R.O.B. perform undesired actions. In 2014, independent homebrew game developer Retrozone produced a limited release NES cartridge titled ""8-Bit X-Mas 2014"". The title screen features R.O.B. character graphics, and interacts with"
"Le Her Le Her (or ""le Hère"") is a French card game that dates back to the 16th century. It is quoted by the French poet Marc Papillon de Lasphrise in 1597. Under the name ""coucou"" it is mentioned in Rabelais' long list of games (in Gargantua, 1534). Le Her belongs to the family of Ranter-Go-Round games. It is played with a standard deck of 52 cards by two people, designated the dealer and the receiver. King is ranked high and ace low. To play, the dealer gives one card to the receiver and one to the dealer. The receiver"
"Hecatomb (card game) Hecatomb is an out-of-print collectible card game created by Wizards of the Coast. The base set of 144 cards was released on August 18, 2005 at the annual Gen Con Indy. The game is unique in its use of five-sided, stackable cards made of durable plastic as opposed to conventional paper. The original concept for the game is credited to Paul Barclay, Brandon Bozzi, Mike Elliott, Aaron Forsythe, and Robert Gutschera. The game was available for purchase in comic and hobby game oriented stores across the United States and internationally (but only in English), its 144-card set"
"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"
"plus the number of cards in the hand. Oh Hell – 500 Oh Hell – 500, Oh Hell!, Up and Down or Up and Down the River is a hybrid of the games Oh Hell and 500. The game is played using a 53-card deck (regular number of cards plus a Joker). The determination of rank of the cards have been borrowed from 500 and is as follows from highest to lowest: ""Joker"", ""Right Bauer"" (Jack of trump suit), ""Left Bauer"" (Jack of same coloured suit), then ""Ace, King, Queen, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2."" On"
"Oh Hell – 500 Oh Hell – 500, Oh Hell!, Up and Down or Up and Down the River is a hybrid of the games Oh Hell and 500. The game is played using a 53-card deck (regular number of cards plus a Joker). The determination of rank of the cards have been borrowed from 500 and is as follows from highest to lowest: ""Joker"", ""Right Bauer"" (Jack of trump suit), ""Left Bauer"" (Jack of same coloured suit), then ""Ace, King, Queen, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2."" On each succeeding deal one more card is dealt"
"c. 1860 as a third trump, the ""imperial"" or ""best bower"", which ranked higher than the other two ""bowers"". The name of the card is believed to derive from ""juker"", a variant name for euchre. The earliest reference to a joker functioning as a wild card dates to 1875 with a variation of poker. Contemporary playing cards are grouped into three broad categories based on the suits they use: French, Latin, and Germanic. Latin suits are used in the closely related Spanish and Italian formats. The Swiss-German suits are distinct enough to merit their subcategory. Excluding jokers and tarot trumps,"
"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"
"Calculation (card game) Calculation (also known as Broken Intervals, Hopscotch and Four Kings Solitaire) is a solitaire card game played with a standard pack of 52 cards. It offers more scope for skill than many similar games; a skilled player can win Calculation more than half of the time when ""normal play"" can allow winning 1 in 5 times. At the start of play, an ace, two, three, and four of any suit are removed from a standard deck of cards and laid out as the foundations. The ace foundation is to be built up in sequence until the king"
"increase the standard deck above 52 cards. The most successful addition to the standard deck is the Joker which first appeared during the American Civil War as a Euchre trump card. The Joker has since been adopted as a wild card in a few other standard playing card games with different values and quantities depending on which game is being played. 500 is a Euchre offshoot invented by the United States Playing Card Company (USPCC) during the early 20th century. To play the six-handed version, USPCC created a deck with ranks 11, 12, and 13. 500 decks are now produced"
"available card. Once an ace is released, it can be built upon immediately. The game is won when all cards end up in the foundations. Achieving this is difficult as only one in ten games can be won, hence the alternate name of ""Idiot's Delight"". King Albert (solitaire) King Albert is a solitaire card game using a deck of 52 playing cards. It is said to be named after Albert I of Belgium and is a variant of Somerset. It is the best known of the three games that are each called Idiot's Delight because of the low chance of"
"if a player does not receive a face card this is considered a misdeal and a redeal may be required. As in euchre, in non-trump suits, the order of cards from highest to lowest is ace, king, queen, (jack), 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, (4). In the trump suit, the highest card is the joker, sometimes known as ""best bower"" in reference to the trump jacks, followed by the jack of the trump suit called ""right bower"", and then the jack of the suit of the same colour as the trump suit called ""left bower"", which is considered part"
"third highest trump card. The gallery below shows a suit of Acorns from a German-suited deck of 32 cards. The pack is of the Saxonian pattern: Acorns (card suit) Acorns are a suit in playing cards of the German-suited cards. They correspond to Clubs in a French deck. They are usually known in German as Eichel, but also as ""Hackl"" or ""Ecker"". Cards are referred to as in a French deck e.g. the ""10 of Acorns"", but in German as """"Eichel-Zehn"""". The acorn symbol was derived from the symbol of the baton in Latin suited cards. Acorns are the highest"
"on several cartomancy decks including a deck of 36 illustrated cards known as the Petit Lenormand or simply Lenormand cards still used extensively today. The 36 card Lenormand deck is modelled on a deck of cards published c1799 as part of ""Das Spiel der Hoffnung"" (""The Game of Hope""), a game of chance designed by Hechtel which was still being advertised in 1820. So-called Lenormand decks have the same card numbering, primary symbols and playing card associations as the cards in Hechtel's ""Das Spiel der Hoffnung"" game. Some examples of the game are included in an extensive collection of playing"
"Bid Euchre Bid Euchre, Auction Euchre, Pepper or Hasenpfeffer, is the name given to a group of card games played in North America based on the game Euchre. It introduces an element of bidding in which the trump suit is decided by which player can bid to take the most tricks. The primary differences are the number of cards dealt, absence of any undealt cards, the bidding and scoring process, and the addition of a no trump declaration. It is typically a partnership game for four players, played with a 24, 32 or 36-card pack, or even two decks of"
"King Albert (solitaire) King Albert is a solitaire card game using a deck of 52 playing cards. It is said to be named after Albert I of Belgium and is a variant of Somerset. It is the best known of the three games that are each called Idiot's Delight because of the low chance of winning the game (the other two are Aces Up and Perpetual Motion). The aim of the game, like many solitaire games, is to release the aces to the foundations and build each of them up by suit to Kings. First, the cards are dealt into"
"both in the same run. After dealing 21 cards to each players, a random card is selected from the remaining pile as ""joker"" and is kept hidden. Except this joker, there are two more wildcard that are used in game which are called as ""value"" i.e. the card ascending and descending the joker of the same suit. For example, if 3 of hearts (3H) is chosen as joker then the ""value"" will be 2H—3H -- 4H and all the 3's will be joker. All ""jokers"" and ""value"" can be used as wild card in the game. Each hand consists of"
"Starship Hector Starship Hector, originally released as , is a Bullet Hell Space Shooter video game developed and published by Hudson Soft for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Similar to ""Xevious"", the player's starship has two modes of fire: one to tackle flying enemies and one for ground-based ones. ""Starship Hector"" is a follow-up to Hudson Soft's earlier shooter ""Star Soldier"", itself inspired by Tecmo's ""Star Force"", an arcade game that Hudson Soft had ported to the Famicom in 1985. The main background music of ""Starship Hector"" was reused as background music in ""Super Star Soldier"". The theme also appears in"
"marketed as a board game in Denmark under the name Con-tac-tix, and Parker Brothers marketed a version of it in 1952 called Hex; they are no longer in production. Hex can also be played with paper and pencil on hexagonally ruled graph paper. Hex-related research is current in the areas of topology, graph and matroid theory, combinatorics, game theory and computer heuristics. Hex is a connection game, and can be classified as a Maker-Breaker game, a particular type of positional game. The game can never end in a draw (tie), in other words, Hex is also a ""determined game"". Hex"
"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"
"Hex (board game) Hex is a strategy board game for two players played on a hexagonal grid, theoretically of any size and several possible shapes, but traditionally as an 11×11 rhombus. Players alternate placing markers or stones on unoccupied spaces in an attempt to link their opposite sides of the board in an unbroken chain. One player must win; there are no draws. The game has deep strategy, sharp tactics and a profound mathematical underpinning related to the Brouwer fixed-point theorem. It was invented in the 1940s independently by two mathematicians, Piet Hein and John Nash. The game was first"
"hex containing the number just rolled receive one card of the corresponding resource; cities produce two cards of the corresponding resource. For example, if a player has one city and two settlements adjacent to a wheat hex, that player would take four wheat resource cards if the corresponding number was rolled. There is also a robber token, initially placed on the desert; if a player rolls 7, the robber must be moved to another hex, which will no longer produce resources until the robber is moved again. That player may also steal a resource card from another player. In addition,"
"represented both by card color and a small icon. This dooms are: Corruption, Deceit, Destruction, and Greed. The cards in ""Hecatomb"" draw from a variety of sources from ancient myth to the stories of H. P. Lovecraft, though some are generic creations of the designers of the game. Many cards are of the Lovecraftian (""Outsiders"") and Aztec myth (""Aztecals"") varieties. Hecatomb (card game) Hecatomb is an out-of-print collectible card game created by Wizards of the Coast. The base set of 144 cards was released on August 18, 2005 at the annual Gen Con Indy. The game is unique in its"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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 provide symbols for three jokers: red, black, and white. Many decks do not provide the Joker with a corner index symbol, of those that do, the most common is a solid five-pointed star or a star within a circle. It is also very common for decks to simply use a stylized ""J"" or the word ""JOKER"" in the corner. Like sports trading cards, jokers are often prized by collectors. Many unusual jokers are available for purchase online while other collectible jokers are catalogued online for viewing. Some European games have as many as six jokers per pack. Zwicker uses"
"Middle-earth Collectible Card Game Middle-earth Collectible Card Game (MECCG) is an out-of-print collectible card game released by Iron Crown Enterprises in late 1995. It is the first CCG based on J.R.R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, with added content from ICE's Middle-earth Role Playing Game. The cards used in the game feature original artwork by a multitude of artists, many of them longtime Tolkien illustrators such as John Howe, Ted Nasmith, Angus McBride, et al. In its basic form, it is a game for one to five players, each choosing one of the five wizards to represent themselves. A ""turn"""
"Sabadim, Salvaterra de Magos, Santarém, Seixal (Setúbal), Silves, Valbom, Vila d'Este, Vila do Conde), Spain (Granollers), UK (London) and the US (Ann Arbor MI, Ypsilanti MI, Ripton VT). One of the largest Hex tourneys is organized by the International Committee of Mathematical Games in Paris, France, which is annually held since 2013. Hex (board game) Hex is a strategy board game for two players played on a hexagonal grid, theoretically of any size and several possible shapes, but traditionally as an 11×11 rhombus. Players alternate placing markers or stones on unoccupied spaces in an attempt to link their opposite sides"
"are 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. The rest of cards have different values: Since the special card in the Spanish 40 cards suit is the ""caballo"" (""Horse"") while there is no ""Queen"" it is recommended to use the ""Queen"" for the ""caballo"" (""Horse"") if no Spanish card deck is available. Each player receives 3 cards. And other 4 cards go to the middle of the table, where all players can catch up. The player at the right of the one that shuffled the cards start the game. At the start of the game, there are four cards on"
"(distinct from 1) and a Joker. A commercially available five-suit poker (65-card) deck is Stardeck which introduces ""stars"" as a fifth suit. In the Stardeck cards, the fifth suit is colored a mixture of black and red. This fifth suit can be counted as either a Red or a Black suit dependent upon the game being played. There are also 2 ""special"" cards (or Jokers), 1 each of red and black and shown with that colour star in the corner, but no numeral or letter. ""Estate Playing Cards"" designed in 2006, is a contemporary five-suit (62-card) deck which adds a"