"6 Jokers (3 different pairs) in a 52-card French deck. German Rummy uses 2 packs of French playing cards, with 3 Jokers per pack. The Joker is often compared to ""(the) Fool"" in the Tarot or Tarock decks. They share many similarities both in appearance and play function. In Central Europe, the Fool, or ""Sküs"", is the highest trump; elsewhere as an ""excuse"" (""L'Excuse"") that can be played at any time to avoid following suit but cannot win. Practitioners of cartomancy often include a Joker in the standard 52-card deck with a meaning similar to the Fool card of Tarot."
"The Devil (Tarot card) The Devil (XV) is the fifteenth trump or Major Arcana card in most traditional Tarot decks. It is used in game playing as well as in divination. In the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, the Devil is derived in part from Eliphas Levi's famous illustration ""Baphomet"" in his ""Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie"" (1855). In the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, the Devil has harpy feet, ram horns, bat wings, a reversed pentagram on the forehead, a raised right hand and a lowered left hand holding a torch. He squats on a square pedestal. Two naked human demons (one male,"
"Seven Devils Seven Devils is perhaps the most difficult of all solitaire games. It is a two-pack game widely available as a computer version. Two decks (104 cards) are used. Twenty-eight cards are dealt out to seven diminishing columns with the bottom card of each column face up, and a further seven cards (the ""devils"") are dealt face up to the right of the columns. The aim is to move all the cards into thirteen-card sequences on the goal piles (at the right of the board), ascending in sequence and following suit, starting with the aces. Cards on the table"
"to his partner, who then lays out one of his, and the game is afterwards played as in two-handed Put. John Dickson Carr's novel ""The Devil in Velvet"", set in 1675 London, includes a scene at Whitehall Palace in which the King's mistress Nell Gwyn and the courtier Ralph Montague play Put with stakes in the thousands of guinnies. Gwyn is depicted as saying she prefers Put to other card games such as Ombre which are ""too slow"". Put (card game) Put is an English tavern trick-taking card game first recorded in the 16th century and later castigated by 17th"
"cards are random, it is almost certain that such a deck would not be ""tournament legal,"" as described in the rulebook's deck-building rules. Booster packs contain 10 cards, typically distributed as 5 commons, 3 uncommons, 1 rare, and 1 Chamber card. Special foil ""gold doubloon"" cards appear in some boosters. All ""Dead Man's Chest"" cards can be identified by the code PDC (Pirates Dead Man's Chest), which appears immediately before the number on each card. Pirates of the Caribbean Trading Card Game The Pirates of the Caribbean Trading Card Game is an out-of-print collectible card game based on the two"
"are believed to have been painted by Antonio Cicognara to replace cards that had been lost from the original set. Of these seventy-eight, four have been lost over the course of history. The four that have been lost are the Devil, the Tower, the Knight of Coins, and the Three of Swords. The deck was composed of four main suits known as the Swords, Cups, Coins, and Staves. In addition the deck had a fifth mysterious suit of twenty-one trumps and a wild card known as the Fool. Bembo hand painted each individual card with skill, managing to incorporate the"
"Deuce (playing card) The Deuce (, plural: ""Däuser"") is the playing card with the highest value in German card games. It may have derived its name from dice games in which the face of the die with two pips is also called a ""Daus"" in German. Unlike the Ace, with which it may be confused, the ""Deuce"" represents the 2, which is why two hearts, bells, etc. are depicted on the card. In many regions it is not only equated to the Ace, but is also, incorrectly, called an Ace. In the south German area it has been historically called"
"begins as dealer for the first hand, and then the person to the dealer's left becomes dealer for the next hand, and so on. Each player is dealt ten cards for the first four-round and then 12 for the last three. The rest of the deck is then placed face down in the middle of the players; this is referred to as the ""stock"". One card is taken from the top of the stock and placed face up next to it. This card is called the upcard and becomes the beginning of the ""discard pile"", other wise known as ""dead"","
"play the ""draw"" deck cards will often end up in other game play areas including the ""discard pile"" (cards discarded from play) and the ""dead pile"" (cards that were killed or are marked with the Deathbound keyword). Typically, players are only allowed three copies of any particular card (as determined by the card name, regardless of card type or game text similarity) in their ""draw"" deck, and only one copy of any particular card, by name, in their ""plot"" deck, but these restrictions can be modified by some other cards, such as the Twins agenda. A player must earn 15"
"person to the dealer's left becomes dealer for the next hand, and so on. Each player is dealt eleven cards for the seven rounds. The rest of the deck is then placed face down in the middle of the players; this is referred to as the deck. One card is taken from the top of the deck and placed face up next to it. This card is called the upcard and becomes the beginning of the discard pile. Each player has a choice at the beginning of their turn. They may either pick up one new card from the top"
"Canfield (solitaire) Canfield (North America) or Demon (UK and Ireland) is a solitaire (patience) card game with a very low probability of winning. According to legend, it is originally a casino game, named after the casino owner who is said to have invented it. Richard A. Canfield, noted gambler, owned the Canfield Casino in Saratoga Springs, New York during the 1890s. Gamblers at his casino would play the game by ""buying"" a deck of cards for $50. The gambler would then play the game and earn $5 for every card he managed to place into the foundations; if one was"
"traditionally the eleventh card and Justice the eighth, but the influential Rider-Waite-Smith deck switched the position of these two cards in order to make them a better fit with the astrological correspondences worked out by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, under which the eighth card is associated with Leo and the eleventh with Libra. Today many decks use this numbering, particularly in the English-speaking world. Both placements are considered valid. Prior to the 17th century, the trumps were simply part of a special card deck used for gaming and gambling. There may have been allegorical and cultural significance"
"the play pile. Shithead (card game) Shithead (also commonly known as Kosbor, Shed, Three cards game, Karma, Threes, Palace, Mohonk, Jonah's Game ,Estee Bestee and by many other names) is a card game, the object of which is to lose all of one's cards, with the final player to be ""shithead"". The game is popular in many countries among backpackers and local pubs, and as a result is widespread. Although the basic structure of the game generally remains constant there are regional variations to the game's original rules. There are many variations of the rules, and there is no universally"
"Seven-card stud Seven-card stud, also known as Seven-Toed Pete or Down-The-River is a variant of stud poker. Until the recent increase in popularity of Texas hold 'em, seven-card stud was the most widely played poker variant in home games across the United States, and in casinos in the eastern part of the country. Two to eight players is common, though eight may require special rules for the last cards dealt if no players fold. With experienced players who fold often, even playing with nine players is possible. In casino play, it is common to use a small ante and bring-in."
"deck. Five-suit decks using the Star suit are still in print in differing designs through vendors such as Stardeck and Newton's Novelties. Cadaco manufactured a game ""Tripoley Wild"" with a fifth suit (and other Wild Cards) which contain pips of all four standard suits (hearts, diamonds, spades, and clubs) on one card. That poker sized deck is not sold separately, but as part of boxed game. Five suited decks include Cinco-Loco Poker Playing Cards, produced by the USA Playing Card Company (not the United States Playing Card Company) which introduces a new suit design. The Cinco-Loco fifth suit uses a"
"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"
"Flemish Hunting Deck The Flemish Hunting Deck, also known as the Cloisters set of fifty-two playing cards and Hofjaren Jachtpakket (in Dutch), is a set of fifty-two playing cards owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States. It is significant in that it is the only complete set of ordinary playing cards from the fifteenth century. Estimate ranges of manufacture are between 1470 and 1480. The cards are hand-drawn and painted on pasteboard, with highlights of gold and silver, in the contemporary technique for illuminated manuscripts. Printed playing-cards had already appeared, by the Master of the Playing"
"The Star (Tarot card) The Star (XVII) is the seventeenth trump or Major Arcana card in most traditional Tarot decks. It is used in game playing as well as in divination. A naked woman kneels by the water; one foot is in the water, one foot is on the land. Above her head a star shines out. In each hand she holds a jug. From one jug she pours a liquid into the water. From the other jug she pours a liquid onto the land. In other, older decks, a woman (or sometimes a man) is simply looking and sometimes"
"Between 2000 and 2009, hold'em surpassed seven-card stud as the most common game in U.S. casinos. Seven-card stud is a poker variant wherein each player is dealt two hole cards and one face-up to start the hand, followed by three more face-up cards one at a time, and then another hidden card, with betting after each round. Another poker variant played is Omaha, a game in which each player is dealt four hole cards and must use exactly two of them in conjunction with three community cards to make the best possible five-card hand. Other games played at the 2008"
"Shithead (card game) Shithead (also commonly known as Kosbor, Shed, Three cards game, Karma, Threes, Palace, Mohonk, Jonah's Game ,Estee Bestee and by many other names) is a card game, the object of which is to lose all of one's cards, with the final player to be ""shithead"". The game is popular in many countries among backpackers and local pubs, and as a result is widespread. Although the basic structure of the game generally remains constant there are regional variations to the game's original rules. There are many variations of the rules, and there is no universally accepted set. A"
"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"
"contrast to The Papess, who wears a blue cape and blue robe. The more commonly encountered modern name ""Hierophant"" is due to Antoine Court de Gébelin. According to de Gebelin, ""hierophant"" was the title of the chief priest in the Eleusinian mysteries (an ancient Greek ritual). 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"
"In the Ace-Ten family of games such as pinochle and schnapsen, both the ace and the 10 rank higher than the king. The king card is the oldest and most universal court card. It most likely originated in Persian Ganjifeh where kings are depicted as seated on thrones and outranking the viceroy cards which are mounted on horses. Playing cards were transmitted to Italy and Spain via the Mamluks and Moors. The best preserved and most complete deck of Mamluk cards, the Topkapı pack, did not display human figures but just listed their rank most likely due to religious prohibition."
"players in the game. S, X, I, C, R, A, T, make SIX CART, or six cartes (six cards). Six cards, also, are expressly mentioned in the riddle itself, namely: ""the Knave"" (line 2), ""a King"" (3), ""Heart"" (5), ""Trey"", ""Quarter"" or quatre, and ""the Buck"" (7). ""The Buck"", probably one of the picture-cards, or the ace, inferior to ""Trey"", which is the best card in the game of put; therefore ""Trey"" comes ""to pull down the Buck"". ""The Buck"" is an old English synonym for the Coarse Appellation, intended, no doubt, for a Puritan, or for the Puritan party."
"24 cards each. It should not be confused with another game also called Bid Euchre q.v. Five Hundred. A pack of 24 cards containing 9, 10, J, Q, K, and A in each suit. The rank of the cards in the trump suit is: J (of trump suit, also known as the right bower; high), J (of the other suit of the same color as the trump suit, also known as the left bower), A, K, Q, 10, 9 (low). In the plain suits the rank is: A (high), K, Q, J, 10, 9 (low). When playing with no trumps,"
"a chance to be a dealer. After those 4 hands, number of cards dealt starts to rise again by one card each hand until it hits 13 again, after which the game ends. Each hand different suit acts as a trump. On the first hand, Spades are the trump suit, then Diamonds, then Hearts and lastly - Clubs. Consequent hand is called 'Sans', and on that hand there are no trumps. Trump suit sequence continues until the end of the game. The cards rank as follows: A, K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2. They"
"Five-card draw Five-card draw (also known as a Cantrell draw) is a poker variant that is considered the simplest variant of poker, and is the basis for video poker. As a result, it is often the first variant learned by new players. It is commonly played in home games but rarely played in casino and tournament play. The variant is also offered by some online venues, although it is not as popular as other variants such as Seven-card stud and Texas hold 'em. In casino play the first betting round begins with the player to the left of the big"
"The Tower (Tarot card) The Tower (XVI) (most common modern name) is the 16th trump or Major Arcana card in most Italian-suited Tarot decks. It is used in game playing since the 15th as well as in divination since the mid-19th century. This card follows immediately after The Devil in all Tarots that contain it, and is associated with sudden, disruptive, revelation, and potentially destructive change. Some early, painted decks, such as the Visconti-Sforza tarot, do not contain it, and some Tarot variants used for game playing omit it. Early printed decks that preserve all their cards do feature The"
"to ""Daddy"" a certain number of times; after enough pushes, the clock will go off and ""Daddy"" will suddenly jerk upright from his bed (as if just having awakened from a nightmare), at which point the player claims the corresponding color card from a player that has it, then returns to the beginning of the board. Parker Brothers introduced the game at the 1992 American International Toy Fair. It was picked as the sixth best toy of the year (third-best among girls) in the Duracell Kids' Choice National Toy Survey, and was one of the best-selling games of the 1992"
"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)"
"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"
"The cards are numbered 1 to 104, each giving 1, 2, 3, 5 or 7 points (i.e. cattle heads) to the person who picks it up. In the deck there are: Ten cards are dealt to each player. Four uncovered cards are arranged on the table to form a vertical line. At each turn, each player selects a card to play, and puts the card face down on the table. When all the players have selected a card, the cards are uncovered. Starting with the lowest valued card, and continuing in increasing order, each player must put their card at"
"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"