"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"
"Lansquenet Lansquenet is a card game, named after the French spelling of the German word Landsknecht ('servant of the land or country'), which refers to 15th- and 16th-century German mercenary foot soldiers; The lansquenet drum is a type of field drum used by these soldiers. Lansquenet is played with an Italian pack of 40 cards. The dealer or banker stakes a certain sum, and this must be met by the nearest to the dealer first, and so on. When the stake is met, the dealer turns up one card and lays it to his right, for the table or the"
"hearts). Tens may be either abbreviated to T or written as 10. As of Unicode 7.0 playing cards are now represented. Note that the following chart (""Cards"", Range: 1F0A0–1F0FF) includes cards from the Tarot Nouveau deck as well as the standard 52-card deck. 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;"
"values of all these cards are totalled for each suit, ace counting 11, court cards 10 and numerals their face value. The ""best suit"" is the one with the highest visible total, and the player holding the highest card of it wins the pot, provided that he has not previously dropped. If he has, the winner is the player counting the greatest face value of cards in any other suit. Une Douillotte is French for a Hot-water Bottle Bouillotte Bouillotte is an 18th-century French gambling card game of the Revolution based on Brelan, very popular during the 19th century in"
"Marjolet Marjolet () is a French 6-card trick-and-draw game for two players using a 32-card piquet pack. It is of the King–Queen type, related to Bezique and Pinochle. Each player receives 6 cards in batches of 2 or 3. The next card is turned face-up to determine the trump suit and put crosswise under the stock. If it happens to be a seven, the dealer scores 10 points. Eldest hand leads to the first trick. While the stock contains cards, players can play any card they want. Once the stock is depleted they must follow suit, if possible, and win"
"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)"
"Bouillotte Bouillotte is an 18th-century French gambling card game of the Revolution based on Brelan, very popular during the 19th century in France and again for some years from 1830. It was also popular in America. The game is regarded as one of the games that influenced the open-card stud variation in poker. It also gave rise to the Bouillotte lamp, consisting of one or several candlesticks with a central standard equipped with a non-flammable adjustable shade. often made of tôle, a painted or lacquered metal, reflective white on the inside, dark on the outside, that could be lowered as"
"already England's most popular card game. It was considered a great pastime by the idle rich of that time, but it got a very bad reputation as a potentially vicious ""tavern"" gambling game during the nineteenth century. Oxford English Dictionary quotes a 1685 reference to ""Pam at Lanterloo"", and Chatto quotes a Dutch political pamphlet of about 1648 entitled ""Het herstelde Verkeer-bert verbetert in een Lanterluy-spel"", containing a dialogue equating the game ""Labate"" (hence French Triomphe became La Bête, ""The Beast"", in Cotton's Complete Gamester, see also Labet) with ""Lanterluy"". This was the very first mentioning of the game. The"
"by Fatima and her family in Charles Perrault's Bluebeard. ""Lansquenet-sous-Tannes"" is a fictional village in Joanne Harris' novel ""Chocolat"" Mentioned briefly in the novel ""After the Funeral"" by Agatha Christie as a disliked absentee husband. Lansquenet is mentioned in ""The Prague Cemetery"" by Umberto Eco. The game is mentioned in several of Georgette Heyer's historical novels. For example, in Chapter Thirteen of ""The Masqueraders"". Lansquenet is played in the novel ""The Luck of Barry Lyndon"" by William Makepeace Thackeray. Lansquenet Lansquenet is a card game, named after the French spelling of the German word Landsknecht ('servant of the land or"
"culture has led to the near-universal popularity and availability of French-suited playing cards even in areas with their own regional card art. In Japan, a distinct 48-card hanafuda deck is popular. It is derived from 16th-century Portuguese decks, after undergoing a long evolution driven by laws enacted by the Tokugawa shogunate attempting to ban the use of playing cards The best-known deck internationally is the 52-card Anglo-American deck used for such games as poker and contract bridge. It contains one card for each unique combination of thirteen ""ranks"" and the four French ""suits"" ""spades"", ""hearts"", ""diamonds"", and ""clubs"". The ranks"
"which at the time still had 36 cards, along with 4 suitless cards. The suitless cards were ""Death"", ""Force"", ""Army General"", and ""Prisoner of War"". The remaining cards were Ace, King, Queen, Jack and 6–10 in each of the four French suits. The aces were styled as a cannoneer, a soldier with a drawn rapier, a battalion, and a squadron of horsemen. After removing the four suitless cards, the pack could be used for playing Piquet, Triomphe or Brelan. The game is played for money, each player depositing the same amount before the cards are dealt. The number of cards"
"more and more complex with the exclusive use of preceding options making it a high-tension kind of game. It was long thought to be a game of Spanish origin, once a 48-card pack was used, besides its counter-clockwise rotation and the words Quinola, name of a 17th-century Spanish admiral, and Espagnolette, but it more probably originated in Italy where a negative variety of Tressette called Rovescino is still played. The highest cards were best in the usual method of play, but in this the lowest had the preference. The Jack was a better card than the King, and one of"
"Your Eyes Only""; and ""GoldenEye"". In the 2006 movie adaptation of ""Casino Royale"", baccarat is replaced by Texas hold 'em poker, largely due to the poker boom at the time of filming. 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"
"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"
"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 stake are ""I'll see"" (""à moi le tout"") and ""Je tiens"". When ""jumelle"" (twins), or the turning up of similar cards on both sides, occurs, then the dealer takes half the stake. Robert-Houdin explained a mechanism by which a card sharp could cheat at lansquenet, by palming and then placing atop the deck a packet of cards in prepared order. Lansquenet is played by Porthos in the Alexandre Dumas novel ""The Three Musketeers"". Lansquenet is played by D'Artagnan in the Alexandre Dumas novel ""Twenty Years After"". Lucien Debray imagines Baroness Danglers might occupy herself with lansquenet in the Alexandre"
"a card game, conveying the flavor of the original roleplaying game while also succeeding as a card game in its own right."" Mythos (card game) Mythos is an out-of-print collectible card game (CCG) published by Chaosium. It is based on the Cthulhu Mythos stories of the horror author H. P. Lovecraft, as well as on Chaosium's own ""Call of Cthulhu"" role-playing game. In 1996, Chaosium decided to join the ongoing CCG-boom and published ""Mythos"", designed by Charlie Krank. It received critical acclaim, winning the 1996 ""Best Card Game"" award at Origins and initially sold well. Later expansions however, most notably"
"introduction of the ""Pagat Ultimo"", according to card game historian John McLeod, is believed to have come from Trappola, which was widely played in Austria. The game is played with the 54-card French suited Industrie und Glück deck. It includes 22 trumps numbered in Roman numerals with the exception of the highest, the ""Sküs"". The second highest trump, the XXI, is known as the ""Mond"" while the lowest trump, I, is called the ""Pagat"". The ""Sküs"", ""Mond"", and ""Pagat"" are together known as the ""Trull"" and are worth 5 points each. Other trumps are worth only 1 point. The 32"
"is confined to Bologna and uses the 62 card Tarocco Bolognese deck. These games have four face cards in each suit but dropped some of their pip cards early in their history. Both decks include 21 trumps and The Fool, a suitless card that excuses the player from following suit. The French adopted tarot games after their occupation of Milan in the late 15th century. French tarot, known locally as ""Jeu de Tarot"", is one which uses the full 78-card Tarot deck. Originally played with the Italian-suited Tarot de Marseille, the game is now played with the French-suited Tarot Nouveau."
"French playing cards French playing cards (""jeu de cartes"") are cards that use the French suits of (clovers or clubs ), (tiles or diamonds ), (hearts ), and (pikes or spades ). Each suit contains three face cards; the (knave or jack), the (lady or queen), and the (king). Aside from these aspects, decks can include a wide variety of regional and national patterns which often have different deck sizes. In comparison to Spanish, Italian, German, and Swiss playing cards, French cards are the most widespread due to the geopolitical, commercial, and cultural influence of France and the United Kingdom"
"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"
"in France"" Vol. II, Tinsley Brothers, London, ; online at Project Gutenberg Basset (card game) Basset (French ""bassette"", from the Italian ""bassetta""), also known as barbacole and hocca, is a gambling card game that was considered one of the most polite. It was intended for persons of the highest rank because of the great losses or gains that might be accrued by players. According to DELI (""Dizionario etimologico della lingua italiana""), the word ""Basetta"" is first recorded in the first half of the 15th century. The game Basset is described by a few authors as having been invented in 1593"
"court cards: Jack (""Valet""), Knight (""Chevalier"" or ""Cavalier""), Queen (""Dame"") and King (""Roi""). The other 22 are the 21 ""atouts"" or trumps and one Fool. The deck is thus primarily different from the 52-card Poker deck in the existence of the separate trump ""suit"", and the addition of the Knight court card. With these cards removed the deck is identical to the 52-card deck for playing purposes. The face cards do not use the Parisian pattern (""portrait officiel"") but have their own unique illustrations. The Fool, though similar in appearance and function to the Joker card of poker decks, has"
"by other manufacturers and are sold primarily in English-speaking countries where the game is played. A much older expanded deck is tarot, invented in 15th-century Italy, with an extra suit of trumps. Tarot card games were the most popular card games of the 18th century but have since declined. They are still played in various continental European countries with France having the largest community. Tarot decks are not immune to stripping either. The Tarocco Bolognese, Tarocco Siciliano, Industrie und Glück, and Cego decks have excised some pip cards. A French-suited deck of 32 cards, consisting of 7, 8, 9, 10,"
"point. The best cards are first: the Three's, next the Two's, and then the Aces; the Kings, Queens, Knaves, and Tens following in order down to the Four, which is the lowest card in the pack. The game becomes more interesting if you shorten the pack to 32 cards by stripping out all the lower ranks from Four to Nine. In his book A Gamut of Games, Sid Sackson describes a similar French game called Le Truc, which he translates as ""The Knack"". This is played with a 32-card pack ranking 6-7-A-K-Q-J-T-9. The winning of two tricks, or one and"
"Sir Lancelot (video game) Sir Lancelot is a video game published in 1984 by Melbourne House for the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum home computers. Sir Lancelot, controlled by the player, must explore the 24 rooms of the castle and collect all the objects (which come in many forms but glow to make them identifiable) in each room before making his way to the exit to the next. His task is made more difficult by the presence of various guardians (including animals and soldiers) who he must avoid in each room. He also has a time limit in which to"
"Tarot The tarot (; first known as trionfi and later as tarocchi, tarock and tarot) is a pack of playing cards, used from the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play games such as Italian tarocchini, French tarot and Austrian Königrufen. Many of these tarot card games are still played today. In the late 18th century, it began to be used in parallel for divination in the form of tarotology and cartomancy and specialist packs were developed for such occult purposes. Like common playing cards, the tarot has four suits (which vary by region: French suits in Northern"
"found in a 1466 letter by Luigi Pulci to Lorenzo de' Medici. However, this game was believed to be played by a 78-card deck as evidenced by the Rosenwald sheets, uncut sheets of Florentine tarots dated from 1480 to 1500. There are two other differences from 97-card minchiate. First, in 97-card minchiate the sequence for some of the lower trumps goes from lowest to highest: Fortitude, Justice, Wheel, and Chariot. In the Rosenwald ordering it is Justice, Fortitude, Chariot, and Wheel. Second, the Rosenwald sheets contains the Popess as the second trump which is not found in the 97-card deck."
"name ""Pam"", denoting the J♣ in its full capacity as permanent top trump in Five-Card Loo, represents an old medieval comic-erotic character called Pamphilus (Latin for a Greek word, meaning ""beloved of all"") or ""Pamphile"", in French, described as ""an old bawd"" by the New Zealand-born English lexicographer Eric Partridge. The game is played by 3 to 8 players using a 52-card pack. The players play for tricks, and in each round they may pass or play. The main forms of the game are Three-Card Loo, Irish Loo and Five-Card Loo. The turn to deal and play passes always to"
"Camelot enjoyed its greatest popularity in the 1930s. Camelot players included José Raúl Capablanca, World Chess Champion from 1921 to 1927, and Frank Marshall, U.S. Chess Champion from 1907 to 1936. Sidney Lenz and Milton Work, two world-famous bridge players, also played the game. There were over 50 different editions of Camelot sets issued, including a gold-stamped leather edition and a mahogany cabinet edition. There were tournament editions, regular editions, and low-cost editions. Camelot was eventually discontinued in 1968, then reissued as ""Inside Moves"" in 1985, and finally discontinued again in 1986. Parker Brothers marketed several game variants. Grand Camelot,"
"the Tarot de Marseille, but it is worth noting that in Noblet's deck (circa 1650), the card was named LAMORT (Death). In at least some printings of the French/English bilingual version of Grimaud's pack, the XIII card is named ""La Mort"" in French and named ""Death"" in English. In many modern cartomantic tarot decks (e.g., Rider-Waite-Smith), the XIII card is named Death. The names given to the Marseilles pattern trumps differ from those in early Italian sources. The French ""la Force"" (Strength) is in Italian ""la Fortezza"" (Fortitude) for the cardinal virtue of Courage. ""L'Amoureux"" (the Lover) is in Italy"
"7.0. The scenes depicted are as follows: Tarot Nouveau The Tarot Nouveau, French Tarot Nouveau or Bourgeois Tarot deck is a pattern of tarot cards. As such it differs from those tarot decks used in fortune-telling, such as the Tarot of Marseilles and Rider-Waite decks, in that the Tarot Nouveau is designed solely for playing the various tarot card games for which the 78-card tarot deck was originally devised, such as the game of French Tarot. In the French language, this deck is often called the tarot à jouer or playing tarot. This usage is distinct from cartomancy and other"
"The court cards are dressed in rococo period costumes. French playing cards French playing cards (""jeu de cartes"") are cards that use the French suits of (clovers or clubs ), (tiles or diamonds ), (hearts ), and (pikes or spades ). Each suit contains three face cards; the (knave or jack), the (lady or queen), and the (king). Aside from these aspects, decks can include a wide variety of regional and national patterns which often have different deck sizes. In comparison to Spanish, Italian, German, and Swiss playing cards, French cards are the most widespread due to the geopolitical, commercial,"