A run, straight or sequence is a combination of playing cards where cards have consecutive rank values.Parlett, David. ''The Penguin Book of Card Games''. London: Penguin (2008) p. 645. . They need not normally be of the same suit. However, if they are, this is referred to as a suit sequence.Arnold, Peter (1988). ''The Book of Card Games''. NY: Barnes & Noble, p. xi. Some games, such as cribbage, specify that an ace counts as one ("ace low"); others specify that an ace counts above a King ("ace high"); yet others, such as

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or group, such as a pair or triplet. A natural sequence, as opposed to one that is wild, is one that consists purely of 'natural cards', without any wild cards such as jokers or deuces.Parlett, David. ''A History of Card Games''. Oxford: OUP (1991) p. 127. .

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