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One of the four suits in a French-suited or Spanish-suited pack of cards. [9] [1] Symbol: or coat card Original term for court card, now obsolete. [29] coffee housing To talk and act in order to mislead one's opponents about one's cards. [29] 7 of Coins Coins One of the four suits in a Latin-suited pack of cards. [1] Symbol: or color, colour
The following is a list of nicknames used for individual playing cards of the French-suited standard 52-card pack.Sometimes games require the revealing or announcement of cards, at which point appropriate nicknames may be used if allowed under the rules or local game culture.
An agreement that an opening bid of 1 ♥ or 1 ♠ promises at least four cards in the suit bid. The usual alternative is five-card majors. The four-card major agreement was standard during the first four decades of contract bridge, but has since given way to five-card majors in most "standard" systems such as 2/1 game forcing and Standard ...
The phrase one-eyed royals is jargon referring to the three face cards showing only one eye: the Jack of Spades (J ♠), Jack of Hearts (J ♥) and King of Diamonds (K ♦). The faces depicted on these three cards are shown in profile, resulting in only one eye being visible. The variant form "one-eyed Jacks" excludes the King of Diamonds.
four-flush Four cards of the same suit. A non-standard poker hand in some games, an incomplete drawing hand in most. See main article: four flush. four of a kind A hand containing four cards of equal rank. Also quads. See list of poker hands. four-straight Four cards in rank sequence; either an open-ender or one-ender.
He’d designed the 36 questions, he said, to artificially “create closeness” in a laboratory setting between same-sex heterosexual strangers, not lovers. One of his grad students had also tried the method on some heterosexual opposite-sex pairs, and one pair had, funny enough, fallen in love, but the lab hadn’t followed up with the others.
In a teams tournament, two pairs normally constitute a team. (Teams of five or six members are often permitted, but each set of boards will only be played by two pairs in the team, i.e. four members of the team.) If there are just two teams, they compete using two tables and having one pair from each team seated at each table, in opposite ...
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