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2. Glossary of card game terms - Wikipedia

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   The cards held by one player ("playing hand") The player holding the cards, as in "Third hand bid 1 ♠." Synonymous with the noun usage of deal. hand card. A card held in the hand as opposed to one on the table. hand game or handplay. A type of contract in certain games in which the skat or widow is not used.

3. Euchre - Wikipedia

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   Another word probably derived from German is "march", which is the literal translation of Marsch, itself an abbreviation of Durchmarsch and the German for a slam in many card games. [13] [14] Other words or phrases that reflect a German origin are: "maker" from Macher, short for Spielmacher i.e. "game maker", the person who determines the type ...

4. Uno (card game) - Wikipedia

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   Uno cards. Uno (/ ˈuːnoʊ /; from Spanish and Italian for 'one'), stylized as UNO, is a proprietary American shedding-type card game originally developed in 1971 by Merle Robbins in Reading, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati, that housed International Games Inc., a gaming company acquired by Mattel on January 23, 1992. [3]

5. Quiddler - Wikipedia

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   Counting, Strategy, Bluffing, Anagramming, Vocabulary, Spelling. Quiddler is a card game and word game created by Set Enterprises. Players compete by spelling English words from cards in hands of increasing size, each card worth various points. The game combines aspects of Scrabble and gin rummy. The word "Quiddler" is a trademark.

6. Trump (card games) - Wikipedia

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   The English word trump derives from trionfi, a type of 15th-century Italian playing cards, from the Latin triumphus "triumph, victory procession", ultimately (via Etruscan) from Greek θρίαμβος, the term for a hymn to Dionysus sung in processions in his honour. Trionfi was the 15th-century card game for which tarot cards were designed.

7. Pinochle - Wikipedia

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   Pinochle (English: / ˈpiːnʌkəl /), also called pinocle or penuchle, [1] is a trick-taking ace–ten card game, typically for two to four players and played with a 48-card deck. It is derived from the card game bezique; players score points by trick-taking and also by forming combinations of characters into melds.