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An arc of cards so fanned. A spread of face-up cards. [57] In Patience, a small number of cards laid in an overlapping row, so that only one is exposed. [58] fatten To discard counting cards to one's partner's tricks. [55] Also smear. fat trick A trick that is rich in counting cards. [38] favourite, favourite suit See preference suit. fiche
An advantage given to a weaker side at the start of a game to level the winning chances against a stronger opponent. Go has formal handicap systems (see Go handicaps); chess has traditional handicap methods not used in rated competitions (see Chess handicap). hex In hexagon-based board games, this is the common term for a standard space on the ...
The invisible deck is prepared by arranging a normal deck so that all the even cards face one way and the odd cards the other. Cards are then slightly glued or stuck together into even-odd pairs, face out. When the spectator names his or her card, the deck is extracted from the box with the chosen parity, even or odd, facing the magician. The ...
The last card dealt to the board in community card games. Also see river. The fifth card dealt to each player in stud poker. fill, fill up To successfully draw to a hand that needs one card to complete it, by getting the last card of a straight, flush, or full house. final table The last table in a multi-table poker tournament.
Transfer cards from column to column only to allow a down card to be freed or to smooth the columns. 10. Make it first priority to move cards within the columns or to the stock piles.
An example of a non-symmetrical playing card back design. A one-way deck is a deck of playing cards where the back of the cards has a pattern that can be oriented to have a "top" and "bottom". Magicians and card sharps can use the orientations of cards in one-way decks to encode information that allows them to perform card tricks. [1] [2]
A sideboard, side deck, or side is a set of cards in a collectible card game that are separate from a player's primary deck. It is used to customize a match strategy against an opponent by enabling a player to change the composition of the playing deck.
Board. One particular allocation of 52 cards to the four players including the bidding, the play of the cards and the scoring based on those cards. Also called deal or hand. A device that keeps each player's cards separate for duplicate bridge. The dummy's hand. For example, "You're on the board" means "The lead is in the dummy".