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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...

"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....

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....

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...

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...

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...

get 11 cards down, not meld 10 and discard one at the end. Second, the player can only lay off a discard to the opponent's melds. Third, cards drawn from...

table (these are "the gates"). They then shuffle the deck and lay out a variable number of cards face-down (these form the "links" of the race) in a straight...

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...

singly. The remaining cards are placed face down in the middle of the table and form the talon. Phase 1 is a trick-taking round where the winner of a trick...

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'...

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...

In Comète the aim is to be first to shed all one's hand cards to sequences laid out in rows on the table. However, there are certain cards known as 'stops'...

multiple at the table. If a player lays maximum odds with a point of 4 or 10 on a table offering five-times odds, he would be able to lay a maximum of...