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To spread cards fanwise. [57] To spread a hand or pack of cards, face up, in an arc so that they can be identified from their corner indices. Alternatively to spread them, face down, in order to enable players to 'draw lots' in order, for example, to choose teams or the first dealer. An arc of cards so fanned. A spread of face-up cards. [57]
In card games such as Schafkopf, Pinochle or Sheepshead, schmearing is to play a high-scoring card to a trick in the hope that one's partner will win it (see schmear (cards)). [citation needed] As a slang term, the word shmir in Yiddish can also refer to a slap on the face, primarily when disciplining young children. [citation needed]
The game is played with a deck of 54 cards including two jokers (Jo). The cards are ranked in the usual order, aces ranking high. In a feature borrowed from euchre, the jack that is not trump but of the same color as the trump suit is known as the jick (Ji) or left bower.
The dealing of the first three face-up cards to the board, refers also to those three cards themselves. Also see turn and river. flop game A community card game. flush A hand comprising five cards of the same suit. See List of poker hands. fold To discard one's hand and forfeit interest in the current pot. See main article: fold. fold equity
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. To win a hand, a player typically needs to win a ...
The (usually quadrilateral) marked surface on which one plays a board game. The namesake of the board game, gameboards would seem to be a necessary and sufficient condition of the genre , though card games that do not use a standard deck of cards (as well as games that use neither cards nor a gameboard) are often colloquially included.
Taken from Latin and French, in English the word “manifest” originally meant “easily noticed or obvious” before it started to be used as a verb meaning “to show something clearly.”
Lotería (Spanish word meaning "lottery") is a traditional Mexican board game of chance, similar to bingo, but played with a deck of cards instead of numbered balls. Each card has an image of an everyday object, its name, and a number, although the number is usually ignored.