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An ace is a playing card, die or domino with a single pip. In the standard French deck, an ace has a single suit symbol (a heart, diamond, spade, or a club) located in the middle of the card, sometimes large and decorated, especially in the case of the ace of spades. This embellishment on the ace of spades started when King James VI of Scotland and I of England required an insignia of the printing house to be printed on the ace of spades. This insignia was necessary for identifying the printing house and stamping it as having paid the new stamp tax. Although this requirement was abolished in 1960, the tradition has been kept by many card makers. In other countries the stamp and embellishments are usually found on ace cards; clubs in France, diamonds in Russia, and hearts in Genoa because they have the most blank space. Etymology The word "ace" (, ) comes from the Old French word ''as'' (from Latin 'as') meaning 'a unit', from the name of a small Roman coin. It originally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coins (suit)
The suit of coins is one of the four card suits used in Latin-suited playing cards alongside Swords (suit), swords, Cups (suit), cups and Batons (suit), batons. These suits are used in Spanish-suited playing cards, Spanish, Italian playing cards, Italian and some tarot card packs. This suit has maintained its original identity from Chinese playing cards#Money-suited cards, Chinese money-suited cards, where in English it may also be referred to as the suit of Cash (Chinese coin), cash. Symbol on Italian pattern cards: Symbol on Spanish pattern cards: Symbol on French aluette cards: Characteristics The coin suit may have originated from Pip (counting), pips on Chinese dominoes, or as a play money substitute for paper money in use for gambling. Lu Rong's (1436–1494) account of the Chinese playing cards#Money-suited cards, Chinese money-suited 40-card Madiao deck has the suit of coins as Cash (Chinese coin), Cash with ranks one to nine. Korea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Put (card Game)
Put, occasionally Putt, is an English tavern game first recorded in the 16th century and later castigated by 17th century moralists as one of ill repute.Parlett (1995), pp. 27–28. It belongs to a very ancient family of trick-taking card games and bears close similarities a group known as ''Truc, Trut,'' ''Truque'', also ''Tru'', and the South American game Truco. Its more elaborate cousin is the Catelan and Spanish game of Truc, which is still much played in many parts of Southern France and Spain. Etymology The name Put, pronounced "uh" like the "u" in the English village of Putney, derives from "putting up your cards in case", if you do not like them, or from "putting each other to the shift". Cotton spells it Putt. History Put is mentioned as early as 1662 where the opening line of a poem, ''The Riddle'', says "S-hall's have a Game at Put, to pass away the time..." It appears in a compendium of poems and songs from the period 1639–1661. The rules of Put are recorded a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinochle
Pinochle (), also called 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 characters 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". History Pinochle is thought to have two possible origins. One is that it is a cousin of Binokel, with both games evolving from the game of bezique. A second alternative is that pinochle actually developed from the Swiss and, later, South German game of Binocle or Binokel, which in turn is a descendant of bezique. The word pinochle has several different potential derivations. It may come from the French word ''binocle'' literally meaning "two eyes", or "eyeglasses" or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brusquembille
Brusquembille or BriscambilleTrömer, Jean Chretien (1755). ''Jean Chretien Toucement des Deutsch Franços Schrifften''. Vol. 2. expanded. Nuremberg: Raspe. pp. 285 – 286. is a historical, French, 3-card trick-and-draw game for two to five players using a 32-card piquet deck, piquet pack. The game has variable trumps. Side-payments are made for keeping or winning aces and tens. The Brusquembille rules published in 1718 are the earliest surviving French rules of an ace–ten card game. Cards have precisely the same card-point values as in a number of modern games such as Skat (card game), Skat. History According to David Parlett, Brusquembille was first described in the 1718 edition of ''Académie Universelle des Jeux''. Taking the first description and the 1721 Dutch reprint at face value, tens ranked between jacks and nines in terms of trick-taking power. The 1730 edition already puts them between aces and kings. The descriptions of the game generally ended with a paragraph t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trappola
Trappola is an early 16th-century Republic of Venice, Venetian trick-taking card game which spread to most parts of Central Europe and survived, in various forms and under various names like Trapulka, Bulka and Hundertspiel until perhaps the middle of the 20th century. It was played with a special pack of Italian playing cards, Italian-suited cards and last reported to have been manufactured in Prague in 1944. Piatnik has reprinted their old Trappola deck for collectors. History We know from the Italian polymath and 'gambling scholar' Girolamo Cardano that Trappola was current in Venice "as early as 1524 and probably invented there".Parlett (2008), p. 201. The original Venetian version described by Cardano in reasonable detail was for only two players and played without trump (card games), trumps or bidding. It is also the earliest known trick-taking game where the ace has been promoted above the king and played with a stripped deck. From the 17th to 19th centuries, the game beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triomphe
Triomphe (French for triumph), once known as French ruff, is a card game dating from the late 15th century. It most likely originated in France or Spain (as triunfo) and later spread to the rest of Europe. When the game arrived in Italy, it shared a similar name with the pre-existing game and deck known as ''Trionfi (cards), trionfi''; probably resulting in the latter becoming renamed as ''Tarocchi'' (tarot). While trionfi has a fifth suit that acts as permanent trump (card games), trumps, triomphe randomly selects one of the existing four suits as trumps. Another common feature of this game is the robbing of the stock. Triomphe became so popular that during the 16th century the earlier game of trionfi was gradually renamed tarocchi, tarot, or tarock. This game is the origin of the English word "trump" and is the ancestor of many trick-taking games like Euchre (via Écarté) and Whist (via Ruff and Honours). The earliest known description of Triomphe was of a point-trick game, perhap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarot Card Games
Tarot games are card games played with tarot packs designed for card play and which have a permanent trump suit alongside the usual four card suits. The games and packs which English-speakers call by the French name tarot are called tarocchi in the original Italian, Tarock in German and similar words in other languages. Tarot cards were invented in northern Italy around 1420 for the purpose of playing cards. With their appearance came the first of the two great innovations in trick-taking games since they arrived in Europe: the concept of trumps. At around the same time or slightly earlier, a similar concept arose in the game of Karnöffel. In this south German game played with an ordinary pack, some cards of the given suit had full trump powers, others were partial trumps and the 7s had a special role. These features are retained in games of the Karnöffel family to the present, but are never seen in tarot games. Suits with these variable powers are called chosen or selec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trionfi (cards)
Trionfi (, 'wikt:trionfi, triumphs') are 15th-century Italian playing card trumps with allegorical content related to those used in Tarot card games, tarocchi games. The general English expression "Trump (card games)#Metaphorical uses, trump card" and the German "trumpfen" (in card games) have developed from the Italian "Trionfi". Most cards feature the personification of a place or abstraction. History Many of the motifs found in trionfi are found in trionfo, theatrical processions that were popular in the Italian Renaissance. The Palazzo Schifanoia in Ferrara, once owned by the Duchy of Ferrara, ducal House of Este, contains many murals depicting these Float (parade), floats. Petrarch wrote a poem called ''I Trionfi'' which may have served as inspiration. The earliest known use of the name "Trionfi" in relation to cards can be dated to 16 September 1440 in the records of a Republic of Florence, Florentine notary, Giusto Giusti. He recorded a transaction where he transferred t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twenty-five (card Game)
Twenty-five is the Irish national card game, which also underlies the Canadian game of Forty-fives. Charles Cotton describes its ancestor in 1674 as "Five Cards", and gives the nickname ''five fingers'' to the Five of Trumps extracted from the fact that the Irish word ''cúig'' means both 'five' and 'trick'. It is supposed to be of great antiquity, and widely believed to have originated in Ireland, although "its venerable ancestor", Maw, of which James I of England was very fond, is a Scottish game. Family The game is a 19th century member of the Maw family of games that also includes the round game of Spoil Five (also called Spoil-Five, or Spoilt Five), the older games of Five Cards and Five and Ten and the extension of Twenty-Five called Forty-Five. History Twenty-five is descended from the old Scottish game of Maw, which dates to at least 1548 and is mentioned frequently up to about 1650. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
