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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 following is a list of nicknames used for individual playing cards of the French-suited standard 52-card pack.Sometimes games require the revealing or announcement of cards, at which point appropriate nicknames may be used if allowed under the rules or local game culture.
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.
The phrase one-eyed royals is jargon referring to the three face cards showing only one eye: the Jack of Spades (J ♠), Jack of Hearts (J ♥) and King of Diamonds (K ♦). The faces depicted on these three cards are shown in profile, resulting in only one eye being visible. The variant form "one-eyed Jacks" excludes the King of Diamonds.
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.
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 .
First, the ace and the deuce (two card) of each suit is removed and are laid down on the tableau. The Aces take up the left column, the deuces at the right column. These cards make up the foundations. Then twelves cards are laid to the left of the aces in four columns of three cards, either overlapping or laid out in a grid.
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