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Secant A few cards in the same suit, starting from Ace. Singleton A hand containing a single card of any suit. Comet When a card is trumped by both opposing players. Invit One player plays the lowest card of the strongest suit, inviting their partner to play the highest card. Sext major Six cards in order, from ace to nine inclusive.
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 ...
♠ ♣ ♦ ♥ High reds Some Russian card games like Preference, 1000 etc. use the following order: spades, clubs, diamonds and hearts. 500 also uses this ordering. ♦ ♥ ♠ ♣ Low reds Some German card games like Skat use the following order: diamonds, hearts, spades and clubs. ♣ ♥ ♦ ♠ Chinese-Japanese-Korean conventional order
To play a higher card than any previously played to the trick. [c] See also cover, go over, head the trick or play over. In Bridge, to play a card higher than the winning card played by your partner, unnecessary to win the trick but necessary to gain the lead. [83] overtrick. To take more tricks than bid or contracted. [67] A trick exceeding ...
In French tarot, all cards have a value including a half-point, and are traditionally scored in pairs of a high-value and a low-value card which results in a whole-point value for the pair. In the most common positive or race games, players seek to win as many tricks or card points as possible.
The rank for each card is determined by the number of pips on it, except on face cards. Ranking indicates which cards within a suit are better, higher or more valuable than others, whereas there is no order between the suits unless defined in the rules of a specific card game. In most decks, there is exactly one card of any given rank in any ...
The defender attempts to beat the attack card by playing a higher-ranking defending card from their hand. For example, if the attacker plays a 7♠ the defender must play a higher spade such as the 10♠ or a card from the trump suit to defend successfully. The defender must play a higher card of the same suit as the attack card or play a card ...
Pages in category "Russian card games" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bura (card game) D.