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deuce The two of any suit. [44] In German-suited packs, the deuce is nowadays usually called the ace despite having 2 suit symbols. [49] In Austria and Bavaria usually called the Sow (Sau). diamonds One of the four suits in a French pack of cards. [9] Symbol: discard. To get rid of plain suit cards when unable to follow suit and unwilling or ...
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The deuce (German: Daus, plural: Däuser) is the playing card with the highest value in German card games. It may have derived its name from dice games in which the face of the die with two pips is also called a Daus in German.
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 Egyptian Hieroglyphs Unicode block has 94 standardized variants defined to specify rotated signs: [3] [4]. Variation selector-1 (VS1) (U+FE00) can be used to rotate 40 signs by 90°:
The Book of Signs: which contains all manner of symbols used from the earliest times to the Middle Ages by primitive peoples and early Christians. New York. ISBN 0-486-20162-7. {}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher
Convair F-102 Delta Dagger, or Deuce, a 1950s American interceptor aircraft; 502nd Infantry Regiment (United States), nicknamed The Deuce; Marine Wing Headquarters Squadron 2, United States Marine Corps, nicknamed The Deuce; Browning M2 (Ma Deuce) .50 heavy machine gun; GMC CCKW 2½-ton 6×6 truck, nicknamed Deuce and a Half, or just Deuce.
If a player rolls an acey-deucey (= a 1 and a 2, also called an Ace and a Deuce), he plays the 1-and-2; then they choose any number from 1 to 6 and act as if they had just thrown a doublet of it; then that player takes another turn. After the opening, the rules of play are as follows: