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To play a better (i.e. higher) card than any already played to the trick. [64] Also go over or play over (but that can also mean to play a higher card of the same suit). Not to be confused with cover or overtake. Suit of hearts (Swedish-pattern pack) hearts One of the four suits in a French pack or German pack of cards. [9] [1] Symbols: or hold
Better minor A commonly used term for the choice of minor suit opening bid with less than four cards, typically in five card major systems. In Standard American Yellow Card, it is normal to bid the longer suit with 3 cards in one and two in the other, and 1 ♣ with 3–3. In this sense the term is a misnomer as a poor club suit (e.g. Jxx) may ...
The Muslims renamed the suit of myriads as cups; this may have been due to seeing a Chinese character for "myriad" upside-down. The Chinese numeral character for Ten on the Tens of Myriads suit may have inspired the Muslim suit of swords. [3] Another clue linking these Chinese, Muslim, and European cards are the ranking of certain suits.
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Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
78-card French-suited tarot pack minus the 3 lowest cards of each suit: Droggn; Games played with 78 cards. Tarot/Tarock pack (Fool 21–1 ...
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