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Deuces or Twos is a patience or card solitaire game of English origin which is played with two packs of playing cards. It is so called because each foundation starts with a Deuce, or Two. It belongs to a family of card games that includes Busy Aces, which is derived in turn from Napoleon at St Helena (aka Forty Thieves).
The four deuces from a William Tell pack Deuce of Acorns Württemberg pattern deck: deuce of bells Deuce of bells playing card depicting a wild boar sow (1573). The deuce (German: Daus, plural: Däuser) is the playing card with the highest value in German card games.
Big two (also known as deuces, capsa, pusoy dos, dai di and other names) is a shedding-type card game of Cantonese origin. The game is popular in East Asia and Southeast Asia , especially throughout mainland China , Hong Kong , Vietnam , Macau , Taiwan , Indonesia , the Philippines , Malaysia and Singapore .
Aces are high, followed in rank by king, queen, jack, ten, and so on - down to the deuces (twos). To start, the deck is shuffled and dealt out completely, each player receiving 13 cards.
When play comes to a standstill, cards from the stock are dealt one a time to a wastepile, the top card of which is available for play. The stock can only be dealt once. The game is out when all cards end up in the audience chamber. On average, Queen's Audience can be won three times out of four. [1]
One can place any one of these five into the foundations and the remaining four cards become the tableau. Storehouse (Reserve or Thirteen Up), in which one should remove the deuces (twos) and place them on the foundations. The reserve and the cards on the tableau are then dealt. The stock is dealt one card at a time, and it can be used only twice.
On the Deuces: 4-6-8-10-Q-A-3-5-7-9-J-K. The nine cards in the reserve are all available for play, to be built on the foundations (no building on the reserve). Gaps in the reserve are immediately filled with cards from the wastepile, or if there is no wastepile yet, the stock. When play goes to a stand still, the stock is dealt one a time.
Persian Patience (or simply Persian) is a patience card game which is played with two decks of playing cards.The unusual feature of this game is the fact that the two decks are decks used in Piquet and Bezique, i.e. those that have the Deuces (twos), Treys (Threes), Fours, Fives, and Sixes removed.