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House of Cards <
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https://catsatcards.com/Articles/TheDeck.html
The Standard Deck
What is common to all games of cards is the need for the deck or card stack. This is the collection of the individual cards which are used for the play of the game, piled neatly in a stack with the backs of each card all facing the same direction.
A number of cards from this deck are usually randomly distributed to the players in the game before the game begins or during actual play. In the following article we will explore various important aspects of this deck or stack of cards.
Every card in a deck should have the same back design Although there are a number of proprietary card decks used for specific games and numerous styles of novelty card decks, by far the most common type of deck used is the traditional French style deck which is used for the vast majority of card games played around the world.
While the specific makeup and number of cards in a deck used for a specific game may be different, the types of cards are going to be the same. Similarly, while the style and images on the cards (front and back) may be different for specific playing card manufacturers, the representations of the cards and the concepts are exactly the same.
A deck consists of some number of cards with one side of the card uniformly identical for every card in the pack. This is called the card back.
The other side (called the face) will vary depending on specifically what that card is meant to represent. This is done such that, from the back, no card can be distinguished from any other.
The most common deck used for the playing of card games is called the Standard Deck so we will describe this deck first.
The Standard Deck: The standard deck is the deck that is the most commonly used for games of cards. When buying a deck of cards at any retailer, this is usually what the buyer will purchase.
Most any normal card game can either be played with this deck as-is, or with the removal of some of the existing cards to make a shortened or stripped deck.
A Full Standard Deck of Cards This deck consists of 52 cards consisting of four different suits. These suits are Spades, Hearts, Clubs and Diamonds. In each suit, there is one card bearing each of the following markings: A for Ace, K for King, Q for Queen, J for Jack, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, and 2. Each numbered card, in addition to the number marking, usually displays a number of suit marking on its face corresponding to its ranking (which is usually also printed on the card face). The Ace, marked by the letter A usually shows just one such marking, which is usually a bit larger than normal. The King, Queen and Jack usually display a profile of a figure, often in courtly attire. These are called the court cards or face cards, as they usually have a caricature of a royal figure, including the face along with the other distinguishing markings.
The Jack card in the deck was originally called the Knave, but due to its similarity in alphabetic marking with the King, over time was changed to "Jack" (in which this card had long been called in the game of All-Fours).
Card Denomination and Ranking: In the deck are a collection of cards, each bearing a number or letter on its face along with a certain number of "pips" representing that number.
The royalty cards (Jack, King, Queen) however are usually represented by a picture along with a suit pip on each side. Pips are essentially small representations of a cards suit marked somewhere on the face of the card.
The number (and a smaller representation of the cards suit) is usually found near the upper left and lower right of each card.
The Ace usually has one large pip in the center of the card face. The Ace of Spades in most decks is also often further ornamented with a logo (inside the central spade) of the company or printer who manufactured that particular deck of cards.
In the vast majority of games these values have a ranking or ordering amongst themselves.
In most games the cards are ranked numerically in the following way from highest to lowest: Ace, King, Queen, Jack, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2. Sometimes, however the Ace may be set as the lowest card in the ranking instead, resulting in a ranking order of: King, Queen, Jack, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, Ace.
Certain games or stages of a game may alter this rank, and this will be described in the game description itself of any game that does so.
The fours suits in a standard deck The Suits: As noted previously, the standard deck is divided into four different and distinct suits. These suits are Spades, Diamonds, Hearts and Clubs.
Each of these suits contains one card of each numerical ranking in the deck, including the face cards and Ace.
Some games may also have a secondary ranking of the suits within the game beyond the normal ranking by the number marked on the card. The Hearts and Diamonds suits are red in color and so are called the red cards and the Spade and Club suits are black in color and are thus called the black cards. In a standard deck of cards there would be 13 cards in each suit.
In France, the playing cards suits of Clubs and Spades sometimes are known by alternative names; Clovers and Pikes respectively.
The Picture Cards: As described above, the Kings, Queens and Jacks (originally called Knaves) usually show a figure on the face of the card. This is usually some type of courtly type figure to help portray what it represents. The actual pictures, although having been drastically changed since the original decks of cards, still do carry a very similar pattern to that found on early cards of the French deck.
For instance, some of the specific cards show a side profile, while others face forward and certain of these figures carry specific items in their hands on any card of the same rank and suit.
These cards are often described by a number of names including; court cards, picture cards, face cards and royalty cards. While originally these face cards were meant to represent specific historical individuals of royalty, in modern card packs they are not intended to represent anyone specific.
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[–] 22018330? ago
What the heck? LOL
[–] 22020345? ago
Very important to know back to front.
Tarot card deck too.
It will all link together to The Code.
I am dissecting the numbers of both types of cards now.