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3-5-8, also known as sergeant major for its popularity among members of the Royal Air Force, is a trick-taking card game for 3 players, based on whist, using a standard 52 card deck. 3-5-8 may be played as a gambling game, and there are many variations with names like "8-5-3" and "9-5-2" played throughout the world.
The game is typically played with two to five people, with six players if desired, using a deck of 36 cards, for example a standard 52-card deck from which the numerical cards 2 through 5 have been removed. In theory, the limit for a game with one deck of 36 cards is six players, but this extends a considerable advantage to the player who ...
304, pronounced three-nought-four, is a trick-taking card game popular in Sri Lanka, coastal Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra, in the Indian subcontinent.The game is played by two teams of two using a subset (7 through Ace of all suits) of the 52 standard playing cards so that there are 32 cards in play.
A small group of mainly French and Spanish games originating in "Malille" characterized by the top card being the 9 in Spanish games or the 10 in Belgian and French games. Additional counters are the AKQJ. Couillon group. A small group from the Benelux countries in which the counters and highest cards are the ace (4), king (3), queen (2) and ...
Scopa (Italian:; lit. ' broom ') is an Italian card game, and one of the three major national card games in Italy, the others being Briscola and Tresette. [1] It is also popular in Argentina and Brazil, brought in by Italian immigrants, mostly in the Scopa a Quindici variation. [2]
The cards in every suit rank from high to low: J-9-A-10-K-Q-8-7. [1] The aim of the game is to win tricks containing valuable cards. The total number of points in the deck is 28, hence the name of the game. The values of the cards are: [1] Jacks = 3 points each; Nines = 2 points each; Aces = 1 point each; Tens = 1 point each; Other cards = (K ...
The Strength card was originally named Fortitude, and accompanies two of the other cardinal virtues in the Major Arcana: Temperance and Justice.. The older decks had two competing symbolisms: one featured a woman holding or breaking a stone pillar, and the other featured a person, either male or female, subduing a lion.
4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4 in Křížový mariáš (elder hand set-up trump when he has four cards in hand) 5-5-5-2-5-5-5 in Licitovaný mariáš (the winner of bidding process can take two cards left on the table (talon) and put off another two cards and then he pronounces the commitments in his contract).