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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.
Hand of cards during a game. The following is a glossary of terms used in card games.Besides the terms listed here, there are thousands of common and uncommon slang terms. Terms in this glossary should not be game-specific (e.g. specific to bridge, hearts, poker or rummy), but apply to a wide range of card games played with non-proprietary pac
The most common deck sold in France is the 32-card deck with the 2 to 6 removed and 1s as the index for aces. 52-card packs are also popular. The French have a unique habit of associating their face cards with historical or mythical personages which survives only in the portrait officiel .
Card are built in suit sequence, [9] unlike modern Nain Jaune in which suits are irrelevant. Within each suit, cards rank in their natural order, from lowest to highest: One [d] to King. Certain cards were stops, [10] i.e. they 'stop' the sequence, and are known as hocs. The three permanent hocs are the ♠ Q, the ♣ J and the ♦ 10.
However, most suits have two normal cards and omit one of the other ranks. The exceptions are the November suit (which has one card of each rank, leaving only one normal card), and the December suit (which has three normal cards and one bright card). In Korea, where they are known as hwatu cards, the November and December suits are swapped.
Golden Hand (from the Golden Mean) AK47: After the AK-47 assault rifle developed by Mikhail Kalashnikov: KKKK: Four Horsemen, Kings of Leon: AAAKKK: DUPLEX (Any two cards can be used. Basically two sets of trips. Instead of a 5-card hand called "Full House" you have a 6-card hand which makes a "bigger full house" or Duplex) KKKAA
Its original French name is Trèfle which means "clover" and the card symbol depicts a three-leafed clover leaf.The Italian name is Fiori ("flower"). However, the English name "Clubs" is a translation of basto, the Spanish name for the suit of batons suggesting that Spanish-suited cards were used in England before French suits were invented.
In Bridge, for which in Germany the French deck is common, it is called by its French name, Cœur.In games using German-suited cards the suit of Hearts is often called "Red" (Rot), e.g. the Unter of Hearts would be the "Red Unter" (Rotunter or Rot-Unter) and the Nine of Hearts the "Red Nine" (Rotneun or Rot-Neun).