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War (also known as Battle in the United Kingdom) is a simple card game, typically played by two players using a standard playing card deck [1] — and often played by children. There are many variations, as well as related games such as the German 32-card Tod und Leben ("Death and Life").
A trump is a playing card which is elevated above its usual rank in trick-taking games. Typically an entire suit is nominated as a trump suit; these cards then outrank all cards of plain (non-trump) suits. In other contexts, the terms trump card or to trump refers to any sort of action, authority or policy which automatically prevails over all ...
A team cannot bid to shoot the moon if the other team bids double nil, and vice versa. [4] Blind moon This is a blind bid to take all tricks in a hand, made before either partner has looked at their cards. Again, the first team to bid either double blind nil or blind moon has precedence. [4] Lexington Similar to Boston but 12 tricks are made ...
A card from the "Fantasy" pack: the Dragon. Top Trumps is a card game first published in 1978. [1] [2] Each card contains a list of numerical data, and the aim of the game is to compare these values to try to trump and win an opponent's card.
High card by suit and low card by suit refer to assigning relative values to playing cards of equal rank based on their suit. When suit ranking is applied, the most common conventions from lowest to highest are: ♣ ♦ ♥ ♠ English alphabetical order clubs, followed by diamonds, hearts, and spades. This ranking is used in the game of bridge.
Four players can play as two pairs. Six can play as three teams of two, or two teams of three. The members of each team sit opposite one another (with two players on each team), or alternating (with three). In some variants, the team with the lowest trump starts the first round, but in subsequent rounds the winning team from the previous round ...
The ordering of the face values is a little different from most American and English card games – the 2 is the highest value (besides the joker, if that card is used) and is unbeatable, though certain variants allow a single 2 to be topped by a pair of 2s. The Ace is next highest, then King, etc., with the 3 being the lowest.
Straight: Any five or more cards in a row. And it is connected form A2345 to 10JQKA, A2345 is the highest straight, 23456 is the second highest straight, 10JQKA is the third highest straight, 34567 is the lowest straight. The number of cards should match the current trick, i.e. one cannot play 3-4-5-6-7-8 to beat 3-4-5-6-7.