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Chapanka is an historical Polish card game for four players that is an adaptation of the French game of Reversis in which the aim was the lose points. History Chapanka is recorded as early as 1752 in a collection of poetry,Drużbacka (1752), p. 85. but the earliest description, which is incomplete, dates to 1831. It appears to have died out towards the end of the 19th century. 1831 rules In 1831, Łukasz Gołębiowski recounts the traditional card names and rules. It was a plain-trick game played by 4 people with a German-suited, Old Polish pack of 36 cards (9 cards in each suit). A player who took three trick (cards), tricks, did not lose anything, a player who took more, won more. The highest cards in Chapanka were appropriately named:Gołębiowski (1831), pp. 47–48. * 8 - ''Dola'' ("Mad One") * 6 or 8 - ''Gółka'' ("Bare Bum", "Semibreve", "Whole Note") * 6 - ''Pancerola'' ("Armour", "Knight") * O - ''Panfil'' ("Pamphilus", "Ober") * U - ''Kinal'' ("Unter") * 9 - ''Moga ...
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Old Polish Pack
Polish playing cards () have been manufactured since the 15th century and include both French-suited cards, French- and German-suited cards. Polish playing cards may also refer more narrowly to the Polish pattern: traditional playing cards, packs of 36 German-suited playing cards produced in Poland to local designs. Description Polish pattern cards comprise the four suits of Leaves (suit), Leaves (''Wino''), Hearts (suit), Hearts (''Czerwień''), Acorns (suit), Acorns (''Żołądź'') and Bells (suit), Bells (''Dzwonek'') and five picture card (cards), picture cards: the Ace or Deuce (playing card), Deuce (''Tuz''), Ten (''Kralka'') or Banner (playing card), Banner, King (playing card), King (''Król''), Ober (playing card), Ober (''Wyżnik'') and Unter (playing card), Unter (''Niżnik'') and four pip cards: the Nine (''Dziewiątka''), Eight (''Ósemka''), Seven (''Siódemka'') and Six (''Szóstka''). Sometimes there are additional cards such as the: Five (''Piątka''), Four (''C ...
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French Playing Cards
French-suited playing cards or French-suited cards are playing cards, cards that use the French Playing card suit, suits of (clovers or clubs ), (tiles or diamonds ), (hearts ), and (pikes or spades ). Each suit contains three or four face cards, face/court cards. In a standard 52-card deck these are the (jack (playing card), knave or jack), the (queen (playing card), lady or queen), and the (king (playing card), king). In addition, in Tarot packs, there is a (Knight (playing card), knight) ranking between the queen and the jack. Aside from these aspects, decks can include a wide variety of regional and national patterns, which often have stripped deck, different deck sizes. In comparison to Spanish playing cards, Spanish, Italian playing cards, Italian, German playing cards, German, and Swiss playing cards, French cards are the most widespread due to the geopolitical, commercial, and cultural influence of France, the United Kingdom, and the United States ...
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Deals (cards)
A card game is any game that uses playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, whether the cards are of a traditional design or specifically created for the game (proprietary). Countless card games exist, including families of related games (such as poker). A small number of card games played with traditional decks have formally standardized rules with international tournaments being held, but most are folk games whose rules may vary by region, culture, location or from circle to circle. Traditional card games are played with a ''deck'' or ''pack'' of playing cards which are identical in size and shape. Each card has two sides, the ''face'' and the ''back''. Normally the backs of the cards are indistinguishable. The faces of the cards may all be unique, or there can be duplicates. The composition of a deck is known to each player. In some cases several decks are shuffled together to form a single ''pack'' or ''shoe''. Modern card games usually have bespok ...
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Polish Card Games
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Led Suit
The following is a glossary of terms used in card games. Besides the terms listed here, there are thousands of common and uncommon slang terms. Terms in this glossary should not be game-specific (e.g. specific to Bridge (card game), bridge, Hearts (card game), hearts, Poker (card game), poker or rummy), but apply to a wide range of card games played with non-proprietary packs. It should not include terms solely related to casino or banking games. For glossaries that relate primarily to one game or family of similar games, see #Game-specific glossaries, Game-specific glossaries. A ; ace # The card with one pip in a pack of cards. Usually the highest card of a #suit, suit, #rank, ranking immediately above the #King, king. May also occupy the lowest rank. # Commonly refers to the #deuce, Deuce or Two in #German-suited pack, German-suited packs which don't have real Aces. Often the highest card of a suit. ; Acorns (card suit), acorns : One of the four #suit, suits in a #German ...
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