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Chinchón (card Game)
Chinchón is a matching card game played in Spain, Uruguay, Argentina, Cape Verde and other places. It is a close variant of gin rummy, with which it shares the same objective: making sets, groups or runs, of matching cards. The name is spelled Txintxon in Basque and in Cape Verdean Creole (the latter also features the alternate spellings ''txin-txon'', ''tchintchom'' or ''tchintchon''). In Uruguay, the game is called Conga or La Conga. Game rules The game of Chinchón is played with a Spanish 40 or 48-card pack.Michael A. E. Dummett, Sylvia Mann, ''The game of Tarot: from Ferrara to Salt Lake City'' pg. 62 United States Games Systems (1980) The rules of the game are very similar to those of Gin Rummy, almost identical to Rumino. Seven cards are dealt to each player, and the remaining cards of the pack are laid on the table face down to form the stock. The top card of this pile is then turned face up and laid beside the stock to start the discard pile. The players look at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stock (cards)
A talon (; French for "heel") in card games is a stack of undealt cards that is placed on the table to be used during the actual game. Depending on the game or region, they may also be referred to as the blind, kitty, skat, stock, tapp or widow (US). Description In 1909, Meyers Lexicon described the talon as ''"the cards left over after dealing..."'' In games of chance, such as Pharo it is ''"the stock of cards which the banker draws on"''. The talon is usually a pack of cards, placed face down, in the middle of the card table. In other games, there are however very different variations, for example in Königrufen. Talons may be placed face up or face down. Parlett describes a ''kitty'' as "the pool or pot being played for" or "a dead hand or widow". He also equates ''talon'' to ''stock'' as the "cards which are not dealt initially but may be drawn from or dealt out later in the play."Parlett, David. ''The Penguin Book of Card Games''. London: Penguin (2008), p. 642-646. . Exam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Card Games
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Biriba
Biriba (Greek: Μπιρίμπα) is the Greek partnership version of a rummy card game of Italian origin called Pinnacola. The Greek name comes probably from the Italian game Biribara, or Biribisso, or Biribi, even if this game is totally different (more similar to the roulette). pg. 104, John Millhouse, Ferdinando Bracciforti It is played by two to six players, with two decks and 4 Jokers comprising 108 cards. If 6 players play, one more deck and two jokers more are added. Biriba can also be played by three players with or without partnership rules. Basics While there are many variations of Biriba, the basic rules an ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Continental Rummy
Continental Rummy (also called Continental, May I?, and Double-deck rummy) is a progressive partnership Rummy card game related to Rumino. It is considered the forerunner of the whole family of rummy games using two packs of cards as one. Its name derives from the fact that it is played throughout the continental Europe (especially in the Czech Republic and Slovakia where it is known as Žolíky), the United States, Mexico, Canada, and also in South America.Scarne, Joh''Scarne on Card Games: How to Play and Win at Poker, Pinochle, Blackjack, Gin and Other Popular Card Games''pg. 99 Dover Publications (2004) According to Albert Morehead, it was "at one time the most popular form of Rummy in women's afternoon games, until in 1950 it lost out to Canasta." Object The object of Continental Rummy is to be the player with the fewest penalty points after playing all seven hands. Everyone draws one card, the high card deals, and the subsequent deals are passed to the left. Two 52-card de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desmoche
Desmoche (played in Nicaragua as conquién, with slight variations) is a popular rummy card game usually played for small stakes which closely resembles other games in the rummy family, like Conquian and gin rummy, more than poker.Roger N. Lancaste''Life is hard: machismo, danger, and the intimacy of power in Nicaragua'' pg. 193 University of California Press (2004) It was probably devised in Nicaragua in the first half of the 20th century. Object of the game The object of desmoche is to play, in either runs or sets, exactly ten cards on the table. The game is played by 2, 3 or 4 players with a standard deck of 52 playing cards. Dealing Any player may start out as the dealer, which then rotates from round to round in a counterclockwise fashion. The player on the dealer's right may cut the deck before the dealer deals the cards face-down starting with the player on the right and continuing until each player receives nine cards. Cards that are not dealt remain in the deck, whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Cards (cards)
Wild card most commonly refers to: * Wild card (cards), a playing card that substitutes for any other card in card games * Wild card (sports), a tournament or playoff place awarded to an individual or team that has not qualified through normal play Wild card, wild cards or Wildcard may also refer to: Computing * Matching wildcards or globbing, an algorithm for comparing text with wildcard characters * Wildcard character, a character that substitutes for any other character or character range in regular expressions and globbing * Wildcard DNS record, a record in a DNS zone file that will match all requests for non-existent domain names * Wildcard mask, a netmask that swaps 1 to 0 and 0 to 1 compared to the normal netmask * Wildcard certificate, a public key certificate used to secure multiple subdomains * Wildcard (Java), a special actual type parameter for generic instantiations in the Java programming language * Studio Wildcard, an American video game developer best known for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joker (playing Card)
The Joker is a playing card found in most modern French-suited card decks, as an addition to the standard four suits (Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, and Spades). From the second half of the 20th century, they have also been found in Spanish- and Italian-suited decks, excluding stripped decks. 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 often acts as a wild card, but may have other functions such as the top trump, a skip card (forcing another player to miss a turn), the lowest-ranking card, the highest-value card or a card of a different value from the rest of the pack (see e.g. Zwickern which has 6 Jokers with this function). By contrast, a wild card is any card that may be used to represent another card or cards; it need not be a Joker. Origin The game of Euchre is credited with the introduction of the Joker into card games. However, Euchre bega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rummy
Rummy is a group of matching-card games notable for similar gameplay based on matching cards of the same rank or sequence and same suit. The basic goal in any form of rummy is to build '' melds'' which can be either sets (three or four of a kind of the same rank) or runs (three or more sequential cards of the same suit) and either be first to go out or to amass more points than the opposition. Origin There are two common theories about the origin of Rummy, attributing its origins in either Mexico or China in the nineteenth century. The first is that it originated in Mexico around the 1890s in a game described as Conquian in R.F. Foster's book ''Foster's Complete Hoyle'', which was played with a 40 card Spanish deck and had melding mechanics. The second is that Rummy originated in Asia, and that Rummy was the result of a Mahjongg variant named Kun P'ai that was Westernized as Khanhoo by W.H. Wilkinson in 1891. Games scholar David Parlett combines these two theories, and p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meld (cards)
In card games, a meld is a set of matching cards, typically three or more, that earn a player points and/or allow them to deplete their hand. Melds typically come in sequences of ascending cards belonging to the same suit known as '' runs'' () or ''sets/groups'' of cards of identical rank (). Other ones may be ''marriage'' (e.g. K and Q) and ''bezique'' (Q and J). Melding is typical in games of the rummy family, such as canasta and gin. It is also used in other games such as mahjong. Melds are also made in some trick-taking games, such as pinochle and bezique.Parlett (2008), pp. 287-291, 295-296. See also * Run (cards) * Set (cards) A set or group in card games is a scoring combination consisting of three or more playing cards of the same rank;Parlett (2008) p. 489. in some games, such as Bieten, a set may also comprise just two cards (a 'pair'). Description Sets are one ... References Bibliography * Parlett, David. ''The Penguin Book of Card Games''. London: P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suit (cards)
In playing cards, a suit is one of the categories into which the cards of a deck are divided. Most often, each card bears one of several pips (symbols) showing to which suit it belongs; the suit may alternatively or additionally be indicated by the color printed on the card. The rank for each card is determined by the number of pips on it, except on face cards. Ranking indicates which cards within a suit are better, higher or more valuable than others, whereas there is no order between the suits unless defined in the rules of a specific card game. In a single deck, there is exactly one card of any given rank in any given suit. A deck may include special cards that belong to no suit, often called jokers. History Modern Western playing cards are generally divided into two or three general suit-systems. The older Latin suits are subdivided into the Italian and Spanish suit-systems. The younger Germanic suits are subdivided into the German and Swiss suit-systems. The French suits a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Set (cards)
A set or group in card games is a scoring combination consisting of three or more playing cards of the same rank;Parlett (2008) p. 489. in some games, such as Bieten, a set may also comprise just two cards (a 'pair'). Description Sets are one of the two types of meld that may be used in games where melding is part of the play; the other being a run or sequence. A set or group comprises 3 or 4 cards of the same rank and, usually, different suits. A prial, pair royal, gleek or triplet is a set of 3 cards of equal rank and a quartet or, in some older games, a mournival, is one of four cards of the same rank.Parlett (2008), pp. 287, 645. Usually a pair (2 cards of the same rank but different suits) is not counted as a "set"; but some games, such as Bieten or Perlaggen do include pairs as sets. A wild set is one containing wild cards – that is, those cards designated in the rules as being wild, for example, the jokers in Rommé. On the other hand, a natural set is one consisting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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