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Russian playing card deck (face cards) designed by Adolf Charlemagne. The design of the Russian card decks were derived and influenced by the German card decks as well as the French card decks. Russian cards in the market were divided into three or four categories, depending on the quality of paper and printing: from cheapest decks for laymen ...
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' fool ') is a traditional Russian card game that is popular in many post-Soviet states. It is Russia's most popular card game, having displaced Preferans. [1] It has since become known in other parts of the world. [2] The objective of the game is to shed all one's cards when there are no more cards left in the deck.
Since the first part of Müller Matz in particular resembles the well-known Russian card game, Durak, this may be an alternative origin of the game and its name. [3] Müller Matz is clearly related to the popular Swedish game of Skitgubbe which may be descended from a Finnish game called Myllymatti, the name of a miller in Finnish folklore.
Vint is a Russian card-game, similar to both bridge and whist and it is sometimes referred to as Russian whist. Vint means a screw in Russian, and the name is given to the game because the four players, each in turn, propose, bid and overbid each other until one, having bid higher than the others care to follow, makes the trump, and his vis-a-vis plays as his partner.
Bura (Russian: Бура, "cutter") is a Russian ace–ten card game that is "particularly characteristic of Russian prisoners and ex-prisoners. Its alternative name of thirty-one refers to the combination of three trump cards that wins the game. One of the main variants of this game is known as Kozel ("goat") or Bura Kozel.
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A version of King for four players is played with 32-card deck, each player receives 8 cards. There are two rounds of six contracts. The first is a round of negative games as follows: No Tricks. Each trick taken incurs 2 penalty points. No Hearts. Each heart taken is worth 2 penalty points. Hearts may not be led unless there is no choice. No ...