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Deuces or Twos is a patience or card solitaire game of English origin which is played with two packs of playing cards. It is so called because each foundation starts with a Deuce, or Two. It belongs to a family of card games that includes Busy Aces, which is derived in turn from Napoleon at St Helena (aka Forty Thieves).
The Egyptian Hieroglyphs Unicode block has 94 standardized variants defined to specify rotated signs: [3] [4]. Variation selector-1 (VS1) (U+FE00) can be used to rotate 40 signs by 90°:
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.
The deuce (German: Daus, plural: Däuser) is the playing card with the highest value in German card games. It may have derived its name from dice games in which the face of the die with two pips is also called a Daus in German.
This list of house styles lists styles of vernacular architecture – i.e., outside any academic tradition – used in the design of houses. African
If a player rolls an acey-deucey (= a 1 and a 2, also called an Ace and a Deuce), he plays the 1-and-2; then they choose any number from 1 to 6 and act as if they had just thrown a doublet of it; then that player takes another turn. After the opening, the rules of play are as follows:
Unicode 15.1 specifies a total of 110 spread across two blocks. The standard set of chess pieces—king, queen, rook, bishop, knight, or pawn, with white and black variants—were included in the block Miscellaneous Symbols.
Convair F-102 Delta Dagger, or Deuce, a 1950s American interceptor aircraft; 502nd Infantry Regiment (United States), nicknamed The Deuce; Marine Wing Headquarters Squadron 2, United States Marine Corps, nicknamed The Deuce; Browning M2 (Ma Deuce) .50 heavy machine gun; GMC CCKW 2½-ton 6×6 truck, nicknamed Deuce and a Half, or just Deuce.