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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. King (K): Cowboy, [1] Monarch [1] King of Clubs (K ♣): Alexander [2]
Games played with 36 cards may be of considerable antiquity as the standard German card pack reduced to 32 cards during the 19th century (see Dummett 1980). Several of these games are attempts to play the Tarot game of Grosstarock with standard French- or German-suited cards.
These games originally employed a pack of 32 or 52 French cards, the queen of diamonds or jack of spades typically being the odd card and the player who is last in and left holding a single queen or jack becoming the "old maid", "vieux garçon", or "Black Peter" depending on the game. The term "old maid" predates the game and referred to a ...
A card game is any game that uses playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, whether the cards are of a traditional design or specifically created for the game (proprietary). Countless card games exist, including families of related games (such as poker ).
The origin of Black Peter is unclear, although legend has it that it was invented in gaol by the notorious criminal, Black Peter, in 1811. [1] Its rules are recorded as early as 1821 in Das Neue Königliche L'Hombre, [8] some years before those of the English game of Old Maid or Old Bachelor whose earliest rules appeared in 1835, [9] and the French game of Vieux Garçon ("Old Boy"), first ...
This category is for card games that were first recorded during the 19th century, whether or not they are still played. Subcategories This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total.
Old maid (card game) P. Penneech; Phat (card game) Piquet; Pope Joan (card game) Pope Julius (card game) Post and pair; Put (card game) Q. Queen Nazarene; R. Ruff and ...
Noddy is a game for two or four players – the latter presumably partners – receiving each 3 cards from a 52-card pack ranking from ace (low) to king (high). The object of the game is to peg points for making combinations both in the hand and in the play up to 31 over as many deals as it takes. A23 is a valid sequence, but AKQ isn't.