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Card Suits
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 Pip (counting), 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 most decks, 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 Joker (playing card), jokers. While English-speaking countries traditionally use cards with the French suits of Clubs (suit), Clubs, Spades (suit), Spades, Hearts (suit), Hearts and Diamonds (suit), Diamonds, many other countries have their own traditional suits. Much of ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
7 Playing Cards
7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube (algebra), cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has symbolic associations in religion, mythology, superstition and philosophy. The seven classical planets resulted in seven being the number of days in a week. 7 is often considered lucky in Western culture and is often seen as highly symbolic. Evolution of the Arabic digit For early Brahmi numerals, 7 was written more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase vertically inverted (ᒉ). The western Arab peoples' 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 Arab peoples developed the digit from a form that looked something like 6 to one that looked like an uppercase V. Both modern Arab forms influenced the European form, a two-stroke form cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Suited Cards
Spanish-suited playing cards or Spanish-suited cards have four Suit (cards), suits, and a deck is usually made up of 40 or 48 Playing card, cards (or even 50 by including two joker (playing card), jokers). It is categorized as a Latin-suited deck and has strong similarities with the Portuguese-suited playing cards, Portuguese-suited deck, Italian playing cards, Italian-suited deck and some to the French playing cards, French deck. Spanish-suited cards are used in Spain, Italy, parts of France, Hispanic America, North Africa, and the Philippines. Description Playing cards, originally of Chinese playing cards, Chinese origin, were adopted in Mamluk Egypt by the 14th century if not earlier, and from there spread to Al-Andalus, the Iberian peninsula. The Spanish word (playing cards) is a loan word from ''nā'ib'', ranks of face cards found in the Mamluk playing cards, Mamluk deck. The earliest record of ''naip'' comes from a Valencian rhyming dictionary by Jaume March II in 1371, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swiss Playing Cards
Parts of Swiss German speaking Switzerland have their own deck of playing cards referred to as Swiss-suited playing cards or Swiss-suited cards. They are mostly used for Jass, the "national card game" of Switzerland. The deck is related to the various German playing cards. Within Switzerland, these decks are called German or Swiss German cards. Distribution of the Swiss deck is roughly east of the Brünig-Napf-Reuss line, in Schaffhausen, St. Gallen (and in adjacent Liechtenstein), Appenzell, Thurgau, Glarus, Zürich, all of Central Switzerland and the eastern part of Aargau. Cards The suits are as follows: The most common deck has 36 cards, nine of each suit. The card values are, in ascending order, :six, seven, eight, nine, ''Banner'' (ten), '' Under'', '' Ober'', ''König'', '' As''. For the purposes of ''Jass'', the numbered cards (six to nine) have no point value, the banner has a value of ten points, the picture-cards Under, Ober, König have values of two, three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Playing Cards
German-suited playing cards are a very common style of traditional playing card used in many parts of Central Europe characterised by 32- or 36-card packs with the suits of Acorns (''Eichel'' or ''Kreuz''), Leaves (''Grün'', ''Blatt'', ''Laub'', ''Pik'' or ''Gras''), Hearts (''Herz'' or ''Rot'') and Bells (''Schelle'', ''Schell'' or ''Bolle''). The German suit system is one of the oldest, becoming standard around 1450 and, a few decades later, influencing the design of the now international French suit system of Clubs, Spades, Hearts and Diamonds. Today German-suited playing cards are common in south and east Germany, Austria, German-speaking Switzerland, Liechtenstein, north Italy, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, northern Serbia (Vojvodina province), southern Poland and central and western Romania. History Playing cards (''Spielkarten'') originally entered German-speaking lands around the late 1370s. The earliest cards were probably Latin- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Playing Cards
Spanish-suited playing cards or Spanish-suited cards have four suits, and a deck is usually made up of 40 or 48 cards (or even 50 by including two jokers). It is categorized as a Latin-suited deck and has strong similarities with the Portuguese-suited deck, Italian-suited deck and some to the French deck. Spanish-suited cards are used in Spain, Italy, parts of France, Hispanic America, North Africa, and the Philippines. Description Playing cards, originally of Chinese origin, were adopted in Mamluk Egypt by the 14th century if not earlier, and from there spread to the Iberian peninsula. The Spanish word (playing cards) is a loan word from ''nā'ib'', ranks of face cards found in the Mamluk deck. The earliest record of ''naip'' comes from a Valencian rhyming dictionary by Jaume March II in 1371, but without any context or definition. By 1380, ''naipero'' (card-maker) was a recognized profession. In December 1382, card games were banned from being played in Barcelona's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Playing Cards
Playing cards (in Italian: ''carte da gioco'') have been in Italy since the late 14th century. Until the mid 19th century, Italy was composed of many smaller independent states which led to the development of various regional patterns of playing cards; "Italian suited cards" normally only refer to cards originating from northeastern Italy around the former Republic of Venice, which are largely confined to northern Italy, parts of Switzerland, Dalmatia and Bay of Kotor, southern Montenegro. Other parts of Italy traditionally use traditional local variants of Spanish playing cards, Spanish suits, French playing cards, French suits or German playing cards, German suits. As Latin-suited cards, Italian and Spanish suited cards use swords (''spade''), cups (''coppe''), coins (''denari''), and clubs (''bastoni''). All Italian suited decks have three face cards per suit: the ''fante'' (Jack (playing card), Knave), ''cavallo'' (Knight (playing card), Knight), and ''re'' (King (playing ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarot Card
Tarot (, first known as '' trionfi'' and later as ''tarocchi'' or ''tarocks'') is a set of playing cards used in tarot games and in fortune-telling or divination. From at least the mid-15th century, the tarot was used to play trick-taking card games such as Tarocchini. From their Italian roots, tarot games spread to most of Europe, evolving into new forms including German Grosstarok and modern examples such as French Tarot and Austrian Königrufen. Tarot is most commonly found in many countries, especially in English and Spanish speaking countries where tarot games are not as widely played, in the form of specially designed cartomantic decks used primarily for tarot card reading, in which each card corresponds to an assigned archetype or interpretation for divination, fortune-telling or for other non-gaming uses. The emergence of custom decks for use in divination via tarot card reading and cartomancy began after French occultists made elaborate, but unsubstan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Suited Cards
Playing cards (in Italian: ''carte da gioco'') have been in Italy since the late 14th century. Until the mid 19th century, Italy was composed of many smaller independent states which led to the development of various regional patterns of playing cards; "Italian suited cards" normally only refer to cards originating from northeastern Italy around the former Republic of Venice, which are largely confined to northern Italy, parts of Switzerland, Dalmatia and Bay of Kotor, southern Montenegro. Other parts of Italy traditionally use traditional local variants of Spanish playing cards, Spanish suits, French playing cards, French suits or German playing cards, German suits. As Latin-suited cards, Italian and Spanish suited cards use swords (''spade''), cups (''coppe''), coins (''denari''), and clubs (''bastoni''). All Italian suited decks have three face cards per suit: the ''fante'' (Jack (playing card), Knave), ''cavallo'' (Knight (playing card), Knight), and ''re'' (King (playing ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roses (suit)
Roses or Flowers is one of the four playing card suits in a deck of Swiss-suited playing cards. This suit was invented in 15th century German speaking Switzerland and is a survivor from a large pool of experimental suit signs created to replace the Latin suits. It is equivalent to the Hearts suit in German and French decks. It is equivalent to the German Leaves (suit), as both the roses and leaves suits have a central stem on their pip patterns so that they can make a pair with the Swiss-German Acorns (suit). It may have derived from the floral patterns on the North-Italian Coins (suit). Characteristics The rose is represented by a stylised yellow flower, with six leaves and an orange pistil. In German, the suit is called . Flowers appear as one of five suits alongside birds, deer, beasts of prey, and wild men in a deck (circa 1455) created by the Master of the Playing Cards, making it one of the first suits created via copperplate engravings. The flower suit feat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shields (suit)
Shields (), also called Escutcheons, is one of the four playing card suits in a deck of Swiss-suited playing cards. This suit was invented in 15th century German speaking lands and is a survivor from a large pool of experimental suit signs created to replace the Latin suits. One example from the mid-15th century is a five-suited deck with the Latin suits plus a suit of shields. Another example, is the Hofämterspiel, a medieval handmade deck from 1453 to 1457 where each suit depicts shields carrying different coat of arms of four kingdoms: France, Germany, Bohemia and Hungary. It is equivalent to the German Hearts (suit), as both the shields and hearts suits lower halves end in a point. The deuce of shields also feature hearts in its design. Characteristics As its name suggests, the shield symbol is a stylized depiction of a warrior's shield in yellow. The coat of arms varies from deck to deck. In the German language, the shield is called . Shields appear as one of fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swiss Suited Cards
Parts of Swiss German speaking Switzerland have their own deck of playing cards referred to as Swiss-suited playing cards or Swiss-suited cards. They are mostly used for Jass, the "national card game" of Switzerland. The deck is related to the various German playing cards. Within Switzerland, these decks are called German or Swiss German cards. Distribution of the Swiss deck is roughly east of the Brünig-Napf-Reuss line, in Schaffhausen, St. Gallen (and in adjacent Liechtenstein), Appenzell, Thurgau, Glarus, Zürich, all of Central Switzerland and the eastern part of Aargau. Cards The suits are as follows: The most common deck has 36 cards, nine of each suit. The card values are, in ascending order, :six, seven, eight, nine, ''Banner'' (ten), '' Under'', ''Ober'', ''König'', '' As''. For the purposes of ''Jass'', the numbered cards (six to nine) have no point value, the banner has a value of ten points, the picture-cards Under, Ober, König have values of two, three and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coins (suit)
The suit of coins is one of the four card suits used in Latin-suited playing cards alongside Swords (suit), swords, Cups (suit), cups and Batons (suit), batons. These suits are used in Spanish-suited playing cards, Spanish, Italian playing cards, Italian and some tarot card packs. This suit has maintained its original identity from Chinese playing cards#Money-suited cards, Chinese money-suited cards, where in English it may also be referred to as the suit of Cash (Chinese coin), cash. Symbol on Italian pattern cards: Symbol on Spanish pattern cards: Symbol on French aluette cards: Characteristics The coin suit may have originated from Pip (counting), pips on Chinese dominoes, or as a play money substitute for paper money in use for gambling. Lu Rong's (1436–1494) account of the Chinese playing cards#Money-suited cards, Chinese money-suited 40-card Madiao deck has the suit of coins as Cash (Chinese coin), Cash with ranks one to nine. Korea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
