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The ace of clubs is a playing card in the standard 52-card deck. Ace of Clubs may also refer to: Ace of Clubs (comics), a DC Comics supervillain; Ace o' Clubs, a DC Comics bar owned by Bibbo Bibbowski; Ace of Clubs, a 1949 musical by Noël Coward; Ace of Clubs Records, a British record label owned by Decca Records
A standard 52-card French-suited deck comprises 13 ranks in each of the four suits: clubs (♣), diamonds (♦), hearts (♥) and spades (♠). Each suit includes three court cards (face cards), King, Queen and Jack, with reversible (i.e. double headed) images. Each suit also includes ten numeral cards or pip cards, from one (Ace) to ten.
For example, using the "alphabetical order" of suits, the ace of clubs ranks higher than any king, but lower than the ace of diamonds. High card by suit is used to break ties between poker hands as a regional variance, [ 1 ] but more commonly is used in the following situations, as well as various others, based upon the circumstances of the ...
The Ace, King, Queen and Jack of one suit. [92] Queen The court card ranking naturally between the king and the jack or knave. In Tarot and Tarock games, it ranks between the king and the cavalier. quinte or quint A sequence of five cards of the same suit. [92] quinte major or quint major The Ace, King, Queen, Jack and Ten of one suit. [91]
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.
The French derived their suits of trèfles (clovers or clubs ♣), carreaux (tiles or diamonds ♦), cœurs (hearts ♥), and piques (pikes or spades ♠) from the German suits around 1480. French suits correspond closely with German suits with the exception of the tiles with the bells but there is one early French deck that had crescents ...
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.
The Chambéry rules that come with the deck are similar to Piedmontese tarot games but the ace ranked between the jack and the 10 like in Triomphe. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Another playing card deck named after Piedmont is the Italian-suited Tarocco Piemontese , used in Tarot card games .