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that suit from one's hand. blaze A hand consisting only of court cards. blind A dummy hand, for example, in Cego. Cards dealt to the table as a skat or...

lay one's cards on the table meaning to reveal previously unknown intentions or to reveal a secret. Transparency is a matter of degree; spill the beans...

popular in the United Kingdom, Ireland and as alternative incarnations in other regions. The sole aim of Switch is to discard all of the cards in one's hand;...

the opponents are doubled. The advantage of playing a hand game is that it affords no opportunity to the other players to lay off cards against one's...

them by laying these cards, face up, on the table. If at least three cards of the same rank are held, they may be melded as a set or group. The original...

each table. Two or more packs of cards are used, depending on the number of players. The object of the game is to go out by laying down all of the player's...

on which cards one's opponent has played, how many cards in the remaining pack will help the hand one holds, and what one's position on the board is....

"Rum". The first player to call "Rum" may only take the discarded card and must lay-off it on the table in front of them in their laid-off cards area....

the end of the seven deals wins the game. In each deal, the players reduce the value of the cards held in their hands by laying on the table, melds comprising...

their cards, or when a player drops, by laying their cards face up on the table. Depending on the variation, a player may drop at any point in the game...

player goes out, the other players get one last play and can lay down any melds on their own table or deadwood cards on other players' tables. If it is possible...

separated from them. The opponent, or "defending" player, shows their melds and is entitled to lay off any deadwood cards that fit into the knocking player's...

cards already in the Phase. For instance, if a Phase requires a set of 3 but the player has four of that card, the player may lay down all four cards...

one card face-down in the center of the table. This is repeated until there are five cards (the nest) in the middle of the table. The remaining cards...

each receive one point. Ace no face: a player dealt a hand that contains any number of aces but no face cards, may lay this hand on the table and call "ace...

show the three cards in question and exchange them for the three unexposed cards in the kitty (also called "going under" or "under the table"). One variation...

or 8: the player may "peek" at one of their own cards 9 or 10: "spy" on one of another player's cards 11 or 12: swap any two cards on the table, of any...

where the player is so sure of losing every trick that they undertake to do so with their cards placed face-up on the table. Consequently, 'lay down misère'...

three and five players and the aim was to empty one's hand by playing cards out in sequence up to the King, suits being irrelevant. In 1752, a variant...

when they have the correct sequence of cards, they can meld or "go down." They do so by laying their meld cards face up on the table in their correct...