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' fool ') is a traditional Russian card game that is popular in many post-Soviet states. It is Russia's most popular card game, having displaced Preferans. [1] It has since become known in other parts of the world. [2] The objective of the game is to shed all one's cards when there are no more cards left in the deck.
Hand of cards during a game. The following is a glossary of terms used in card games.Besides the terms listed here, there are thousands of common and uncommon slang terms. Terms in this glossary should not be game-specific (e.g. specific to bridge, hearts, poker or rummy), but apply to a wide range of card games played with non-proprietary pac
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 ...
Bura (Russian: Бура, "cutter") is a Russian ace–ten card game that is "particularly characteristic of Russian prisoners and ex-prisoners. Its alternative name of thirty-one refers to the combination of three trump cards that wins the game. One of the main variants of this game is known as Kozel ("goat") or Bura Kozel.
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Kaschlan, Kastellan or Kurrhahn [1] was a simple card game related to the Russian game Durak or German game of Hund. It is for two to five players (four best) [ 2 ] and may be played with a Skat pack of 32 French- or German-suited playing cards or a standard 52-card French pack.
Russian bank, crapette or tunj, historically also called the wrangle, [1] is a card game for two players from the patience family. It is played with two decks of 52 standard playing cards . [ 2 ] The U.S. Playing Card Company, who first published its rules in 1898, called it "probably the best game for two players ever invented".
Vint is a Russian card game similar to both bridge and whist and sometimes called Russian whist. Vint means "screw" in Russian, and the name is given to the game because the four players propose, bid, and overbid each other until one, having bid higher than the others care to, makes the trump, and his vis-a-vis plays as his partner.