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Position in the layout comprising a pile of cards, one card or a space waiting for a card. [2] A depository to which cards not playable direct to foundations may be placed. [6] discard To place a card on the wastepile instead of playing it to the tableau. [2] discard pile See wastepile. down-card, downcard A card lying face down. [2] [5]
Two or more cards that score a bonus when melded. Often called a meld. [29] command The best card of a suit, usually applied to suits which the adversary is trying to establish. [33] See best card, king card and master card. commanding card. The best card of a suit in play. [34] Also best card, king card or master card.
The French game is played as follows: Two players use a 32-card pack. A game is won when one player reaches 12 points, which may require several rounds. A rubber is the best of three games. Players deal in turn with the first dealer being chosen by any agreed upon means. Each round, players are dealt 3 cards one at a time.
Manille (French pronunciation:; derived from the Spanish and Catalan manilla) is a Catalan French trick-taking card game which uses a 32 card deck. It spread to the rest of France in the early 20th century, but was subsequently checked and reversed by the expansion of belote. [1]
Short cards were used for cutting, as in whist, at the time. Of these cards there were two sorts, one longer than the rest; and the advantage gained by them was as the adversary managed it, by cutting the longer or broader, as best suited his purpose, or imposing on the dealer, when it was his turn, to cut those that made most against him.
As usual for Tarot card games, dealing and card play are counter-clockwise. The dealer gives 15 cards to each player, in 3 rounds of five cards apiece. The dealer picks up the last two cards adding it to those in hand. The dealer has to discard two cards, which can not be "5 point" cards (such as kings, or the trumps worth 5 points).
Patience (Europe), card solitaire or solitaire (US/Canada), is a genre of card games whose common feature is that the aim is to arrange the cards in some systematic order or, in a few cases, to pair them off in order to discard them. Most are intended for play by a single player, but there are also "excellent games of patience for two or more ...
Two cards are dealt, one at a time, to each player, after each has anted two counters in a pool.Each player then either keeps his hand, saying "Enough," or takes one or two new cards from the top of the stock; after which the stock is reshuffled and cut, and each player receives two more cards, one at a time.