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too, has regional cards such as the Japanese hanafuda. The reverse side of the card is often covered with a pattern that will make it difficult for players...

Double bête: a double penalty, usually for failing to make a contract after choosing to play out the cards. bettel or bettler Bid or contract to win no tricks...

The Identity Cards Act 2006 (c. 15) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that was repealed in 2011. It created National Identity Cards, a...

are a number of types of payment cards, the most common being credit cards, debit cards, charge cards, and prepaid cards. Most commonly, a payment card...

National identity cards are identity documents issued to citizens of most European Union and European Economic Area (EEA) member states, with the exception of...

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...

House of Cards is an American political thriller television series created by Beau Willimon. It is based on the 1989 novel of the same name by Michael...

card games, to cut the cards (also "cut the deck" or "cut the pack") is to split the deck into two packets by lifting one packet from the top and placing...

characters from the Wild Cards book series. The Astronomer first appeared in the short story "Pennies from Hell" by Lewis Shiner in Wild Cards II: Aces High...

external USB adapters will make the cards visible to any system as an external USB hard drive. The Sony SBAC-US20 uses the USB 3.0 interface and has a...

swiping the magnetic stripe. Debit cards are similar to a credit card, but the money for the purchase must be in the cardholder's bank account at the time...

cards are a subgenre of trading cards that focus on the artwork. Trade cards are the ancestors of cigarette and food (bubble gum) cards. Some of the earliest...

which of the five designs is on the card. The experimenter continues until all the cards in the pack are used. Poor shuffling methods can make the order...

players, they are added to make the cards deal evenly (eighteen or nine cards each, respectively). They are either "junk" cards playable any time that cannot...

question marks, boxes, or other symbols. In playing cards, a suit is one of the categories into which the cards of a deck are divided. Most often, each card...

decks of cards. Players attempt to make melds of seven cards of the same rank and "go out" by playing all cards in their hands. It is "the most recent...

round to round (it is usually the player whose face-up cards make the best hand for the game being played). The cards dealt face down to each individual...

dealt four cards and must make their best hand using exactly two of them, plus exactly three of the five community cards. The exact origin of the game is...

"The Deck of Cards" is a recitation song that was popularized in the fields of both country and popular music, first during the late 1940s. This song,...

credit. Using the card thus accrues debt that has to be repaid later. Credit cards are one of the most widely used forms of payment across the world. A regular...