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2. French-suited playing cards - Wikipedia

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   Standard 32-card deck of the Paris pattern. French-suited playing cards or French-suited cards are cards that use the French suits of trèfles (clovers or clubs ♣ ), carreaux (tiles or diamonds ♦ ), cœurs (hearts ♥ ), and piques (pikes or spades ♠ ). Each suit contains three or four face/court cards. In a standard 52-card deck these ...

3. Standard 52-card deck - Wikipedia

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   The standard 52-card deck [citation needed] of French-suited playing cards is the most common pack of playing cards used today. [ a ] In English-speaking countries it is the only traditional pack [ b ] used for playing cards; in many countries of the world, however, it is used alongside other traditional, often older, standard packs with ...

4. Playing card suit - Wikipedia

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   In playing cards, a suit is one of the categories into which the cards of a deck are divided. Most often, each card bears one of several pips (symbols) showing to which suit it belongs; the suit may alternatively or additionally be indicated by the color printed on the card. The rank for each card is determined by the number of pips on it ...

5. Playing card - Wikipedia

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   Playing cards are typically palm-sized for convenient handling, and usually are sold together in a set as a deck of cards or pack of cards. The most common type of playing card in the West is the French-suited , standard 52-card pack , of which the most widespread design is the English pattern , [ a ] followed by the Belgian-Genoese pattern . [ 5 ]

6. Face card - Wikipedia

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   Face card. In a deck of playing cards, the term face card (US) or court card (British and US), [ 1] and sometimes royalty, is generally used to describe a card that depicts a person as opposed to the pip cards. In a standard 52-card pack of the English pattern, these cards are the King, Queen and Jack. The term picture card is also common, but ...

7. Queen (playing card) - Wikipedia

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   The queen is a playing card with a picture of a queen on it. In many European languages, the king and queen begin with the same letter so the latter is often called dame (lady) or variations thereof. In French playing cards, the usual rank of a queen is between the king and the jack. In tarot decks, it outranks the knight which in turn outranks ...

8. German-suited playing cards - Wikipedia

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   German-suited playing cards are a very common style of traditional playing card used in many parts of Central Europe characterised by 32- or 36-card packs with the suits of Acorns ( Eichel or Kreuz ), Leaves ( Grün, Blatt, Laub, Pik or Gras ), Hearts ( Herz or Rot) and Bells ( Schelle, Schell or Bolle ). The German suit system is one of the ...

9. Clubs (suit) - Wikipedia

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   Clubs (French: Trèfle) is one of the four playing card suits in the standard French-suited playing cards. The symbol was derived from that of the suit of Acorns in a German deck when French suits were invented in around 1480. [1] In Skat and Doppelkopf, Clubs are the highest-ranked suit (whereas Diamonds and Bells are the trump suit in ...