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2. French-suited playing cards - Wikipedia

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   French-suited playing cards or French-suited cards are cards that use the French suits of trèfles (clovers or clubs ♣ ), carreaux (tiles or diamonds ♦ ), cœurs (hearts ♥ ), and piques (pikes or spades ♠ ). Each suit contains three or four face/court cards. In a standard 52-card deck these are the valet ( knave or jack ), the dame ...

3. German-suited playing cards - Wikipedia

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   The German suit system is one of the oldest, becoming standard around 1450 and, a few decades later, influencing the design of the now international French suit system of Clubs, Spades, Hearts and Diamonds. Today German-suited playing cards are common in south and east Germany, Austria, German-speaking Switzerland, Liechtenstein, north Italy ...

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   No download needed, play free card games right now! Browse and play any of the 40+ online card games for free against the AI or against your friends. Enjoy classic card games such as Hearts, Gin ...

5. Playing cards in Unicode - Wikipedia

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   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.

6. Spades (suit) - Wikipedia

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   Spades () ( French: Pique) is one of the four playing card suits in the standard French-suited playing cards. It has the same shape as the leaf symbol in German-suited playing cards but its appearance is more akin to that of an upside down black heart with a stalk at its base. It symbolises the pike or halberd, two medieval weapons, but is ...

7. The Queen of Spades (story) - Wikipedia

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   The Queen of Spades (Russian: «Пиковая дама», romanized: Pikovaya dama) is a short story with supernatural elements by Alexander Pushkin, about human avarice. Written in autumn 1833 in Boldino , [1] it was first published in the literary magazine Biblioteka dlya chteniya in March 1834 .

8. King (playing card) - Wikipedia

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   The king is a playing card with a picture of a king displayed on it. The king is usually the highest-ranking face card. In the French version of playing cards and tarot decks, the king immediately outranks the queen. In Italian and Spanish playing cards, the king immediately outranks the knight. In German and Swiss playing cards, the king ...

9. The Queen of Spades (opera) - Wikipedia

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   The Queen of Spades or Pique Dame, Op. 68 (Russian: Пиковая дама, Pikovaya dama listen ⓘ, French: La Dame de Pique) is an opera in three acts (seven scenes) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to a Russian libretto by the composer's brother Modest Tchaikovsky, based on the 1834 novella of the same name by Alexander Pushkin, but with a dramatically altered plot.