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3-5-8, also known as sergeant major for its popularity among members of the Royal Air Force, is a trick-taking card game for 3 players, based on whist, using a standard 52 card deck. 3-5-8 may be played as a gambling game, and there are many variations with names like "8-5-3" and "9-5-2" played throughout the world.
304, pronounced three-nought-four, is a trick-taking card game popular in Sri Lanka, coastal Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra, in the Indian subcontinent.The game is played by two teams of two using a subset (7 through Ace of all suits) of the 52 standard playing cards so that there are 32 cards in play.
It was a game for two players. The players 'lifted' (i.e. cut) for the deal and the player with the highest put-card won. This presumably meant the highest using the ranking in put i.e. 3-2-A-K-Q-J-10-9-8-7-6-5-4. However, in the rest of the game the cards rank in their natural order (aces high). [1]
In this variation, 5 cards rather than 6 are initially dealt. The highest cards of the trump suit are the jack of that suit and the jack of the same color suit as trump. In a common variation called Perevodnoy ("transferrable" or "reversible") durak, a defender may pass to the next player if they have a card of the same rank.
The deck contains the cards from eight to ace inclusively (8, 9, 10, jack, queen, king, ace) for each suit. The other four cards are the seven of clubs, seven of diamonds, five of hearts and three of spades. All 32 cards are dealt out: eight to each player.
The fractional values of each of the cards are as follows: Oudlers and Kings - 4 + 1 ⁄ 2, Queens - 3 + 1 ⁄ 2, Cavaliers - 2 + 1 ⁄ 2, Jacks - 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 and low cards - 1 ⁄ 2 each. The same method is used as above but counting only two cards. For example, a Queen (worth 3 1/2 points) and a low card (1/2 point) would be counted together ...
The cards in every suit rank from high to low: J-9-A-10-K-Q-8-7. [1] The aim of the game is to win tricks containing valuable cards. The total number of points in the deck is 28, hence the name of the game. The values of the cards are: [1] Jacks = 3 points each; Nines = 2 points each; Aces = 1 point each; Tens = 1 point each; Other cards = (K ...
[5] As an example: If the top card on the discard pile is 6♣, the next player can: play any 6 (i.e. 6♦, 6♥ or 6♠) play any club; play any 8, then declare a new suit; draw from the stockpile until a play can be made; If the stock pile runs out, all played cards except for the top one are reshuffled to form a new stock. [4]