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The standard 52-card deck [citation needed] of French-suited playing cards is the most common pack of playing cards used today. [ a ] In English-speaking countries it is the only traditional pack [ b ] used for playing cards; in many countries of the world, however, it is used alongside other traditional, often older, standard packs with ...
FreeCell is a solitaire card game played using the standard 52-card deck. It is fundamentally different from most solitaire games in that very few deals are unsolvable, [ 1] and all cards are dealt face-up from the beginning of the game. [ 2] Although software implementations vary, most versions label the hands with a number (derived from the ...
This list of playing card nicknames shows the nicknames of playing cards in a standard 52-card pack. Some are generic while some are specific to certain card games; others are specific to patterns, such as the courts of French playing cards for example, which often bear traditional names.
Playing cards deck. Unicode has code points for the 52 cards of the standard French deck plus the Knight (Ace, 2-10, Jack, Knight, Queen, and King for each suit), two for black and white (or red) jokers and a back of a card, in block Playing Cards (U+1F0A0–1F0FF). Also, a specific red joker and twenty-two generic trump cards are added.
A four-color deck (US) or four-colour pack (UK) is a deck of playing cards identical to the standard French deck except for the color of the suits. In a typical English four-color deck, hearts are red and spades are black as usual, but clubs are green and diamonds are blue. [ 2] However, other color combinations have been used over the ...
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 of the Major Arcana, and a backside.
The queen is a playing card with a picture of a queen on it. In many European languages, the king and queen begin with the same letter so the latter is often called dame (lady) or variations thereof. In French playing cards, the usual rank of a queen is between the king and the jack. In tarot decks, it outranks the knight which in turn outranks ...
Face card. In a deck of playing cards, the term face card (US) or court card (British and US), [ 1] and sometimes royalty, is generally used to describe a card that depicts a person as opposed to the pip cards. In a standard 52-card pack of the English pattern, these cards are the King, Queen and Jack. The term picture card is also common, but ...