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Briscola
Briscola (; lmo, brìscula; scn, brìscula, nap, brìscula) is one of Italy's most popular games, together with Scopa and Tressette. A little-changed descendant of Brusquembille, the ancestor of Briscan and Bezique, Briscola is a Mediterranean trick-taking, Ace-Ten card game for two to six players played with a standard Italian 40-card deck. The game can also be played with a modern Anglo-French deck, without the eight, nine and ten cards (see Portuguese variations below). With three or six players, twos are removed from the deck to ensure the number of cards in the deck is a multiple of the number of players; a single two for three players and all four twos for six players. The four- and six-player versions of the game are played as a partnership game of two teams, with players seated such that every player is adjacent to two opponents. The cards The traditional Italian-suited pack used for Briscola consists of forty cards, divided into four suits: coins (Italian: ''Denar ...
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Briscola
Briscola (; lmo, brìscula; scn, brìscula, nap, brìscula) is one of Italy's most popular games, together with Scopa and Tressette. A little-changed descendant of Brusquembille, the ancestor of Briscan and Bezique, Briscola is a Mediterranean trick-taking, Ace-Ten card game for two to six players played with a standard Italian 40-card deck. The game can also be played with a modern Anglo-French deck, without the eight, nine and ten cards (see Portuguese variations below). With three or six players, twos are removed from the deck to ensure the number of cards in the deck is a multiple of the number of players; a single two for three players and all four twos for six players. The four- and six-player versions of the game are played as a partnership game of two teams, with players seated such that every player is adjacent to two opponents. The cards The traditional Italian-suited pack used for Briscola consists of forty cards, divided into four suits: coins (Italian: ''Denar ...
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Tressette
Tressette or Tresette is a 40-card, trick-taking card game. It is one of Italy's major national card games, together with Scopa and Briscola. It is also popular in the regions that were once controlled by the Italian predecessor states, such as Albania, Montenegro, coastal Slovenia (Slovene Littoral) and coastal Croatia (Istria and Dalmatia). The Austrian game Trischettn as historically played in South Tyrol is also a derivative, albeit played with a 32-card German-suited deck. It is recorded only from the early 18th century, though greater antiquity is suggested by its lack of trump. The name of the game, literally "three seven," may refer to seven sets of three or four point possibilities when a minimum of three each (three, two, ace or all of those together in a matching suit) are dealt, or to the fact that it is played up to twenty-one. According to Cäsar (1800), the name is derived from "''Tre Sett''" (three sevens) because, at that time, a player holding three sevens could ...
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Trick-taking Game
A trick-taking game is a card or tile-based game in which play of a ''hand'' centers on a series of finite rounds or units of play, called ''tricks'', which are each evaluated to determine a winner or ''taker'' of that trick. The object of such games then may be closely tied to the number of tricks taken, as in plain-trick games such as contract bridge, whist, and spades, or to the value of the cards contained in taken tricks, as in point-trick games such as pinochle, the tarot family, briscola, and most evasion games like hearts. Trick-and-draw games are trick-taking games in which the players can fill up their hands after each trick. In most variants, players are free to play any card into a trick in the first phase of the game, but must ''follow suit'' as soon as the stock is depleted. Trick-avoidance games like reversis or polignac are those in which the aim is to avoid taking some or all tricks. The domino game Texas 42 is an example of a trick-taking game that is not a ca ...
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Trick Taking
A trick-taking game is a card or tile-based game in which play of a ''hand'' centers on a series of finite rounds or units of play, called ''tricks'', which are each evaluated to determine a winner or ''taker'' of that trick. The object of such games then may be closely tied to the number of tricks taken, as in plain-trick games such as contract bridge, whist, and spades, or to the value of the cards contained in taken tricks, as in point-trick games such as pinochle, the tarot family, briscola, and most evasion games like hearts. Trick-and-draw games are trick-taking games in which the players can fill up their hands after each trick. In most variants, players are free to play any card into a trick in the first phase of the game, but must ''follow suit'' as soon as the stock is depleted. Trick-avoidance games like reversis or polignac are those in which the aim is to avoid taking some or all tricks. The domino game Texas 42 is an example of a trick-taking game that is not a ca ...
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Follow Suit
A trick-taking game is a card or tile-based game in which play of a ''hand'' centers on a series of finite rounds or units of play, called ''tricks'', which are each evaluated to determine a winner or ''taker'' of that trick. The object of such games then may be closely tied to the number of tricks taken, as in plain-trick games such as contract bridge, whist, and spades, or to the value of the cards contained in taken tricks, as in point-trick games such as pinochle, the tarot family, briscola, and most evasion games like hearts. Trick-and-draw games are trick-taking games in which the players can fill up their hands after each trick. In most variants, players are free to play any card into a trick in the first phase of the game, but must ''follow suit'' as soon as the stock is depleted. Trick-avoidance games like reversis or polignac are those in which the aim is to avoid taking some or all tricks. The domino game Texas 42 is an example of a trick-taking game that is not a ca ...
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Swords (card Suit)
The suit of Swords is one of the four card suits used in Latin-suited playing cards alongside Coins, Cups and Batons. These suits are used in Spanish, Italian and some tarot card packs. Symbol on Italian pattern cards:    Symbol on Spanish pattern cards:    Symbol on French Aluette Spanish pattern cards: Characteristics In Spain, the suit of Swords is known as ''espadas'' 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 Swords ranks: R C S (9 8) 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. In Italy the suit is known as ''spade'' 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 ranking is thus: R C F (10 9 8) 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. A distinguis ...
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Cups (card Suit)
The suit of Cups is one of the four card suits used in Latin-suited playing cards alongside Coins, Swords and Batons. These suits are used in Spanish, Italian and some tarot card packs. Symbol on Italian pattern cards:    Symbol on Spanish pattern cards: Symbol on French Aluette Spanish pattern cards: Characteristics In Spain, the suit of Cups is known as ''copas'' 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 Cups ranks: R C S (9 8) 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. In Italy the suit is known as ''coppe'' 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 ranking is thus: R C F (10 9 8) 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Individual cards * Seven of Cup ...
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Batons (card Suit)
Batons or Clubs is one of the four suits of playing cards in the standard Latin deck along with the suits of Cups, Coins and Swords. 'Batons' is the name usually given to the suit in Italian-suited cards where the symbols look like batons. 'Clubs' refers to the suit in Spanish-suited cards where the symbols look more like wooden clubs. Before 1800, French cardmakers, who also made Spanish card games, called them ''cartes à bâtons''. Symbol on Italian pattern cards:    Symbol on Spanish pattern cards: Symbol on French Aluette (Spanish-)pattern cards: Characteristics In Spanish, the Batons are called ''bastos''; and in Italian, ''bastoni''. In cartomancy and occultist circles, the suit of Batons is usually called Wands.Dummett, Michael. ''A Wicked Pack of Cards: Origins of the Occult Tarot.'' Bloomsbury (1996), p. 47. See also * Spanish playing cards * Italian playing cards * Suit of Wands The Suit of Wands is one of four suits in tarot, collectively kno ...
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Card Point
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. 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 pack, German-suited pack of cards. Symbol: ; active # A card that is in play i.e. not #sleeping, sle ...
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Shuffled
Shuffling is a procedure used to randomize a deck of playing cards to provide an element of chance in card games. Shuffling is often followed by a cut, to help ensure that the shuffler has not manipulated the outcome. __TOC__ Techniques Overhand One of the easiest shuffles to accomplish after a little practice is the overhand shuffle. Johan Jonasson wrote, "The overhand shuffle... is the shuffling technique where you gradually transfer the deck from, say, your right hand to your left hand by sliding off small packets from the top of the deck with your thumb." In detail as normally performed, with the pack initially held in the left hand (say), most of the cards are grasped as a group from the bottom of the pack between the thumb and fingers of the right hand and lifted clear of the small group that remains in the left hand. Small packets are then released from the right hand a packet at a time so that they drop on the top of the pack accumulating in the left hand. The process ...
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Dealt
''Dealt'' is a 2017 American documentary film directed by Luke Korem. The film is about the life and career of Richard Turner - who is renowned as one of the world's greatest card magicians, yet he is completely blind. In the documentary, Richard traces his journey from his troubled childhood, when he began losing his vision, to present day as he relentlessly pursues perfection while struggling with the reality that his biggest weakness might also be his greatest strength. The film features extensive vérité footage of both Richard and his family as well as archive footage of Turner's many television appearances. The film features interviews with notable magicians including Turner, Johnny Thompson, Max Maven, Armando Lucero, and Jason England. ''Dealt'' debuted at the 2017 South By Southwest Film Festival in competition where it won the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature. ''Dealt'' went on to win four more audience awards and screened at festivals around the world incl ...
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