"John Suckling (poet) Sir John Suckling (10 February 1609 – after May 1641) was an English poet and a prominent figure among those renowned for careless gaiety and wit, the accomplishments of a Cavalier poet. He was also the inventor of the card game cribbage. He is best known for his poem ""Ballad Upon a Wedding"". He was born at Whitton, in the parish of Twickenham, Middlesex, and baptized there on 10 February 1609. His father, Sir John Suckling, was Secretary of State under James I and Comptroller of the Household of Charles I, and his mother was Elizabeth Cranfield,"
"and ""Nicholas Nickleby"" by Charles Dickens; more recently, in ""The Emancipator's Wife"" by Barbara Hambly. Also In The Thirteen Gun Salute by Patrick O'Brian. Also in Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik. Also in False Colours by Georgette Heyer. Speculation (card game) Speculation is a simple gambling card game that was popular in the late 18th century and early 19th century. To hold the highest trump card when all cards in play have been revealed. The dealer antes six chips. The other players each ante four. The dealer gives each player three cards, face down. One additional card is placed"
"dating from around 1905. Although he also wrote fiction and contributed short stories to magazines, his most prolific work was on the subject of card, dice and table games being author of over 50 such books covering every imaginable card game: euchre, poker, conquian, rummy, whist, auction bridge, contract bridge and other bridge variations, and many more. Foster also wrote on other games such as mahjong, dice, chess, and dominoes. Foster invented or developed: Robert Frederick Foster Robert Frederick Foster (May 31, 1853 – December 25, 1945) of New York City, known as R. F. Foster, was a memory training"
"""flipper"". The game is won when all cards are built onto the foundations. The game has a high probability of being won. One good strategy is to first work towards freeing the beak. Penguin (solitaire) Penguin is a solitaire card game, invented by David Parlett, which uses a deck of 52 playing cards. The game play is similar to other solitaire card games as Freecell and Eight Off. After shuffling the cards, the cards are dealt from left to right into seven columns, each with seven rows. The first card dealt is called the ""beak"" (in the example below, the"
"Euchre Euchre or eucre is a trick-taking card game most commonly played with four people in two partnerships with a deck of 24, 28, or sometimes 32, standard playing cards. It is the game responsible for introducing the joker into modern packs; this was invented around 1860 to act as a top trump or best Bower (from the German word ""Bauer"", ""farmer"", denoting also the Jack). It is believed to be closely related to the French game Écarté that was popularized in the United States by the Cornish and Pennsylvania Dutch, and to the seventeenth-century game of bad repute Loo."
"two cards entering play together (such as the interaction between ""Fowl Fiend"" and ""Chicken on Your Head"" or ""Sword of Slaying Everything Except Squid"" and ""Squidzilla""). On ""BoardGameGeek"" the average user rating is 6/10. Tom Vasel of The Dice Tower was critical of the game Munchkin feeling it was overpriced, had limited re-playability, and a poor and occasionally tedious gaming experience. Munchkin (card game) Munchkin is a dedicated deck card game by Steve Jackson Games, written by Steve Jackson and illustrated by John Kovalic. It is a humorous take on role-playing games, based on the concept of munchkins (immature role-players,"
"Munchkin (card game) Munchkin is a dedicated deck card game by Steve Jackson Games, written by Steve Jackson and illustrated by John Kovalic. It is a humorous take on role-playing games, based on the concept of munchkins (immature role-players, playing only to ""win"" by having the most powerful character possible). ""Munchkin"" won the 2001 Origins Award for ""Best Traditional Card Game"", and is itself a spin-off of ""The Munchkin's Guide to Powergaming"", a gaming humor book which also won an Origins Award in 2000. After the success of the original ""Munchkin"" game several expansion packs and sequels were published. Now"
"Penguin (solitaire) Penguin is a solitaire card game, invented by David Parlett, which uses a deck of 52 playing cards. The game play is similar to other solitaire card games as Freecell and Eight Off. After shuffling the cards, the cards are dealt from left to right into seven columns, each with seven rows. The first card dealt is called the ""beak"" (in the example below, the five of spades). When the three other cards with the same rank appear, they are immediately placed on the foundations, and the next card dealt takes its place in the tableau so that"
"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"
"fiery Quaker youth, to whom the muse had perversely assigned a battle-trumpet, got himself lynched, in South Carolina"". The date of that event in Hawthorne's invented timeline was 1835. Whittier was one of thirteen writers in the 1897 card game Authors, which referenced his writings ""Laus Deo"", ""Among the Hills"", ""Snow-bound"", and ""The Eternal Goodness"". He was removed from the card game when it was reissued in 1987. Whitter's poem ""Twilight"" was set to music in 1932 by Edwin Fowles. Poetry collections Prose John Greenleaf Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892) was an American Quaker"
"the Fourteenth Century"", by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, written in 1868, ""pur"" was the term given to the knave or jack in the game of post and pair. It seems to be formed by an abbreviation of ""pair-royal"" corrupted into ""purrial"", similar to how ""pair-royal"" has since been otherwise corrupted into ""prial"". The game is mentioned in Canto Six of Walter Scott's epic poem ""Marmion"" as a ""vulgar"" game played at Christmas. Post and pair is also prominently mentioned in ""A Woman Killed with Kindness"" by Thomas Heywood. Attribution Post and pair Post and pair is a gambling card game that"
"Richard Garfield Richard Channing Garfield (born June 26, 1963) is an American mathematician, inventor, and game designer. Garfield created """", which is considered to be the first modern collectible card game (CCG). ""Magic"" debuted in 1993 and its success spawned many imitations. Garfield oversaw the successful growth of ""Magic"" and followed it with other game designs. Included in these are ""Netrunner"", ""BattleTech(CCG)"", """", ""Star Wars Trading Card Game"", ""The Great Dalmuti"", ""Artifact"", and the board game ""RoboRally"". He also created a variation of the card game Hearts called Complex Hearts. Garfield first became passionate about games when he played the"
"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"
"becomes his turn and he asks another player for a specific card. Play continues in this way until no families are separated among different players. The player with the most cards wins. One of the rules states that a player cannot ask for a certain card to deceive any player if he does not have a card in the set he is asking for. The game can be adapted for use with an ordinary set of playing cards (see Go Fish). The game was devised by John Jaques Jr., who is also credited with popularizing tiddlywinks, ludo and snakes and"
"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"
"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"
"Screw (card game) Screw, Moonshine, or Popcorn is a card game where the players try to be the first to lose all their cards. Like Palase, it is derived from the Finnish card game Paskahousu. Popcorn is a competitive, multiplayer card game. It is a fixed variant of Moonshine. Popcorn uses a 54 card deck (standard deck of 52 plus jokers). It is named after Marvin Sutton, aka ""Popcorn"" Sutton, the most famous moonshiner in Western North Carolina. Objective: As a shedding-type card game, the goal is to get rid of all your cards. The first player to do so"
"Four Card Poker Four Card Poker is a casino card game similar to Three Card Poker, invented by Roger Snow and owned by Shuffle Master. The player can place an ante bet or an ""Aces Up"" bet or both. Five playing cards are dealt to the player, while the dealer is dealt five cards face down and a sixth card face up. Both the player and the dealer make their best four-card hands. The dealer's advantages are in having an extra card and the fact that if the player folds, he will lose his ante, even if his hand turns"
"player should discard and that in which he should keep what cards he has. These are the simplest signs; but some of the [cheaters] have a great number of them, to designate everything; and even sometimes to communicate and receive intelligence, when necessary. This telegraphy is so imperceptible that it is difficult to describe it, and altogether impossible to detect it.</poem> Piquet Piquet (; ) is an early 16th-century trick-taking card game for two players that is still popular today. Piquet is one of the oldest card games still being played. It was first mentioned on a written reference dating"
"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 by a noble Venetian named Pietro Cellini, who was punished with exile"
"6.15%. The possible four-card hands are (from best to worst): Four Card Poker Four Card Poker is a casino card game similar to Three Card Poker, invented by Roger Snow and owned by Shuffle Master. The player can place an ante bet or an ""Aces Up"" bet or both. Five playing cards are dealt to the player, while the dealer is dealt five cards face down and a sixth card face up. Both the player and the dealer make their best four-card hands. The dealer's advantages are in having an extra card and the fact that if the player folds,"
"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"
"which a series of punched cards each corresponds to a row of the design to be woven, allowing for a greater definition of motifs. The punched cards operate a mechanism attached to the loom, controlling the pick-up of weft threads as the design evolves. In the case of the ""Game of Thrones Tapestry"", it has allowed the weavers to introduce a rich palette of colours and considerable level of detail throughout the work. Jacquard looms have often been credited with inspiring the development of the very first computers. The English mathematician, engineer, and inventor Charles Babbage (1791–1871) is believed to"
"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"
"backs. The need to hide wear and tear and to discourage writing on the back led cards to have designs, pictures, photos, or advertising on the reverse. The United States introduced the joker into the deck. It was devised for the game of euchre, which spread from Europe to America beginning shortly after the American Revolutionary War. In euchre, the highest trump card is the Jack of the trump suit, called the ""right bower"" (from the German """"); the second-highest trump, the ""left bower"", is the jack of the suit of the same color as trumps. The joker was invented"
"other player. The winner of the hand collects the pot. Play continues over several hands, with the goal of accumulating as much money as possible. Renfield (card game) Renfield is a trick-taking card game produced by Cheapass Games. It is a social gambling game for four to seven players. The game is based on a theme of ""eating insects"", both the theme and the name derived from the character of Renfield in ""Dracula"". The theme, however, is little more than an overlay on the card game mechanics. A ""Renfield"" deck consists of 54 cards, split into three suits and numbered"
"as part of Three Donkeys LLC. He has been a game designer and consultant for companies including Electronic Arts and Microsoft. Garfield teaches a class titled ""The Characteristics of Games"" at the University of Washington. A partial list of games designed by Garfield: Richard Garfield Richard Channing Garfield (born June 26, 1963) is an American mathematician, inventor, and game designer. Garfield created """", which is considered to be the first modern collectible card game (CCG). ""Magic"" debuted in 1993 and its success spawned many imitations. Garfield oversaw the successful growth of ""Magic"" and followed it with other game designs. Included"
"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 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"
"Piquet Piquet (; ) is an early 16th-century trick-taking card game for two players that is still popular today. Piquet is one of the oldest card games still being played. It was first mentioned on a written reference dating to 1535, in ""Gargantua and Pantagruel"" by Rabelais. Although legend attributes the game's creation to Stephen de Vignolles, also known as La Hire, a knight in the service of Charles VII during the Hundred Years' War, it may possibly have come into France from Spain because the words """"pique"""" and """"repique"""", the main features of the game, are of Spanish origin."
"of competition. Players in highly competitive games may consider memorizing lists of two- and three-letter words. It is also a good idea to know whether the game dictionary includes colloquial and contemporary words. Quiddler Quiddler is a proprietary card game and word game created by Set Enterprises. Players compete by spelling English words from cards in hands of increasing size, each card worth various points. The game combines aspects of ""Scrabble"" and gin rummy. The word ""Quiddler"" is a trademark. Before play begins, all the cards are shuffled. A game of ""Quiddler"" consists of eight rounds beginning with a three-card"
"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"
"Karnöffel Karnöffel is a trick-taking card game which probably came from the upper-German language area in Europe in the first quarter of the 15th century. It first appeared listed in a municipal ordinance of Nördlingen, Bavaria, in 1426 among the games that could be lawfully played at the annual city fête. This makes the game the oldest identifiable European card game in the history of playing cards. The earliest substantial reference to Karnöffel is a poem by Meissner, discovered by Dr. Rudolf von Leyden, written in or before 1450. The word means inguinal hernia. Karnöffel had a suit in which"