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plain card A card other than a court card. [85] plain suit Any suit that is not a trump suit. [84] play. To contribute a card to a trick. [82] To move a card to a place on the table (either from the players hand, or from elsewhere on the table), in Patience games. [82] The card played or the move made. [82]
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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.
Svengali deck – also called a long-and-short deck, a gaff deck of cards in which half of the cards are shorter than the other half. The shorter cards all have the same value (e.g., 8 of diamonds), while the long cards are all different. Svengali decks can be used for card forces, ambitious card routines, and a variety of other effects.
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A hand possible only in games with wild cards, or a game with more than one deck, defeating all other hands, comprising five cards of equal rank. fixed limit, flat limit See main article: fixed limits. flash Any card which becomes briefly exposed by accident to at least one player must be shown to all the players by the dealer during dealing.
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Beginning about 1927, Capitol No. 188, a brand of what is now the United States Playing Card Company, produced playing cards with Stag (no. 69) backs, in red and blue.When Capitol ceased card production in 1928, the Stag design, then popular, transferred in ownership to Bicycle Cards, also a brand of the USPCC, [3] where it remained in print until 1943.