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Jack cards of all four suits in the English pattern. A Jack or Knave, in some games referred to as a Bower, in Tarot card games as a Valet, is a playing card which, in traditional French and English decks, pictures a man in the traditional or historic aristocratic or courtier dress generally associated with Europe of the 16th or 17th century.
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, Ace: Pip card, Spot card, Numeral, Numeral card, Spotter [8] King of Diamonds, Jack of Spades, and Jack of Hearts (K ♦ J ♠ J ♥): One-Eyed Royals; Jack of Spades and Jack of Hearts (J ♠ J ♥): One-Eyed Jacks; Jack of Clubs and Jack of Diamonds (J ♣ J ♦): Two-Eyed Jacks; King, Queen (same suit): Marriage ...
The phrase one-eyed royals is jargon referring to the three face cards showing only one eye: the Jack of Spades (J ♠), Jack of Hearts (J ♥) and King of Diamonds (K ♦). The faces depicted on these three cards are shown in profile, resulting in only one eye being visible. The variant form "one-eyed Jacks" excludes the King of Diamonds.
Description: Deck of playing card in SVG format based on the French suit. The kings, queens and jacks are based on the Paris pattern (portrait officiel).You can access each either by rendering the file into a pixmap and clipping each card or by using their name with a DOM interface.
The standard 52-card deck [citation needed] of French-suited playing cards is the most common pack of playing cards used today. The main feature of most playing card decks that empower their use in diverse games and other activities is their double-sided design, where one side, usually bearing a colourful or complex pattern, is exactly ...
"One-Eyed Jacks" (The Punisher), an episode of The Punisher; Alone in the Dark: One-Eyed Jack's Revenge, the 1993 sequel to the video game Alone in the Dark; One-Eyed Jack, a 1970s British comic strip; One-Eyed Jack, leader of the alien Bounty Hunters working for Damocles and the Sword in the Gen 13 comics and the "Fire from Heaven" crossover.
The Unicode block Playing Cards contains a full 56-card deck for the Minor Arcana (i.e. a standard 52-card deck with King, Queen and Jack picture court cards, and a Knight in all four suits) three jokers, 21 trump card images from the Tarot Nouveau, and a backside.
For example, if a player plays 4 aces, it can be beaten with three 2s, both One-Eyed Jacks, or the King of Hearts. This creates a rare but interesting scenario where if all four 2s are played at once, it is unbeatable as trumping it would require 3 One-Eyed Jacks or two Suicide Kings, which is impossible if playing with only one deck.