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Coins (card Suit)
The suit of Coins is one of the four card suits used in Latin-suited playing cards alongside Swords, Cups and Batons. These suits are used in Spanish, Italian and some tarot card packs. This suit has maintained its original identity from Chinese money-suited cards. Symbol on Italian pattern cards: Symbol on Spanish pattern cards: Symbol on French Aluette cards: Characteristics In Spain, the suit of Coins is known as ''oros'' and the court cards are known as the ''Rey'' (King), ''Caballo'' (Knight or Cavalier) and ''Sota'' (Knave or Valet). The Spanish play with packs of 40 or 48 cards. There are no Tens and, in the shorter pack, the Nines and Eights are also dropped. Thus the suit of Coins ranks: R C S (9 8) 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. In Italy the suit is known as ''denari'' and the corresponding court cards are the ''Re'', ''Cavallo'' and ''Fante''. Either 40 or 52-card packs are used. In the shorter packs, the Tens, Nines and Eights are removed. Card ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aluette
Aluette or Vache ("Cow") is an old, plain trick-taking card game that is played on the west coast of France. It is played by two teams, usually of four people, but sometimes also of six. It is unusual in using a unique pack of 48 Spanish playing cards and a system of signalling between playing partners. The French colloquial names for the game, ''jeu de la Vache'' or ''Vache'', refer to the cow depicted on one of the cards. History This game is apparently very old with references to the game of "luettes" by François Rabelais in the early 16th century. As the cards use Spanish suits, Aluette may even predate the invention of French playing cards around 1480. "''La luette''" means uvula in French and may refer to the fact that it is played with codified signs that allow team members to provide information on their cards during the game. The game is also called "''la vache''" (the cow) because of the illustration on the 2 of cups card. Due to similarities it has with the game of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scopa
''Scopa'' (; literally "broom") is an Italian card game, and one of the three major national card games in Italy, the others being ''Briscola'' and ''Tresette''. It is also popular in Argentina and Brazil, brought in by Italian immigrants, mostly in the '' Scopa a Quindici'' variation. Scopa is also played in former Italian colonies such as Libya and Somalia or some other countries like Tunisia and even Morocco with changed appearance in the cards. It is played with a standard Italian 40-card deck, mostly between two players or four in two partnerships, but it can also be played by 3 or 6 players. The name ''scopa'' is an Italian noun meaning "broom", since taking a ''scopa'' means "to sweep" all the cards from the table. Watching a game of scopa can be a highly entertaining activity, since games traditionally involve lively, colorful, and somewhat strong-worded banter in between hands. However, skill and chance are more important for the outcome of the game. History Scopa wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
07 Sette Di Denari
7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythology, superstition and philosophy. The seven Classical planets resulted in seven being the number of days in a week. It is often considered lucky in Western culture and is often seen as highly symbolic. Unlike Western culture, in Vietnamese culture, the number seven is sometimes considered unlucky. It is the first natural number whose pronunciation contains more than one syllable. Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, Indians wrote 7 more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase vertically inverted. The western Ghubar Arabs' main contribution was to make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed some tendencies to making the digit more rectilinear. The eastern Arabs developed the digit fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
