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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.
Spades is a trick-taking card game devised in the United States in the 1930s. It can be played as either a partnership or solo/"cutthroat" game. The object is to take the number of tricks that were bid before play of the hand began. Spades is a descendant of the whist family of card games, which also includes bridge, hearts, and oh hell.
Alternative name Explanation 33 Crabs: Because a 3 looks like it has pincers [8] Lucky Dragon: Favorite Chinese hand that "never loses" Treys "Trey" dates back to the 14th century, and is a name for a card or a die showing three points; originally from Old French treis. [69] 32 Can of Corn [8]
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
Name: White Spade Suit: White Heart Suit: White Diamond Suit: White Club Suit UTF codes are expressed by the Unicode code point "U+hexadecimal number" syntax, and as subscript the respective decimal number. Symbols are expressed here as they are in the web browser's HTML renderization. Name is the formal name adopted in the standard specifications.
The major difference with Spades is instead of trumps being decided by the highest bidder or at random, the spade suit is always trump, hence the name "Spades"!
Spades is newer than most other popular card games, although its main features-partnerships, bidding, and trumps-derive from older games such as Bid whist, Bridge, Pinochle, and Euchre.
Four aces from a standard 52-card deck. An ace is a playing card, die or domino with a single pip.In the standard French deck, an ace has a single suit symbol (a heart, diamond, spade, or a club) located in the middle of the card, sometimes large and decorated, especially in the case of the ace of spades.