Card deck

The expression “ card deck ” indicates at the same time:

  • a complete whole of the charts necessary to practice a Board game: Set of 32 charts, Pack of 52 cards, Set of 54 charts, play of tarot. One also speaks about package of charts.
  • a board game using as exclusive or practically exclusive material charts to be played traditional or specific to this play.

This article speaks about the second meaning of the expression, i.e. board games using of the charts to play. The article Chart to play more precisely approaches the charts as a material of play.

In other fields, a card deck can also indicate a whole of geographical maps or a whole of perforated cards for the punched-card treatment.

Material of play

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See also: Chart to play

Vocabulary

There exists a vocabulary common to the card decks.

  • the pickaxe or the heel : indicate the heap of not distributed charts, often turned over “Hidden side”, and in which the player can or must “pick” a chart according to the rules.
  • the trues : indicate a site where the players lay out, generally visible face, the charts of which they get rid during the play.
  • a joker : the joker generally meets in pair, its function is very varied but generally it makes it possible to replace any other chart. He was invented about 1850, probably by the Americans who incorporated it in the play of euchre. He is represented in the form of a buffoon, of an imp or a clown, which corresponds well to the English word “ joker ” (“joker” or “joker”). Previously, it was called Juker card , the euchre being named juker ; then, one day, one decided to name it definitively Joker .
  • a hand : indicate the charts held by one of the players.
  • a fold : charts gained at the conclusion of a turn by one or the other of the players (sometimes called raised ).
  • To beat : to mix the charts between two handles or parts.
  • To cut : to take part of the charts since the top of the package to pass them under the package. The player charged to cut the package is generally different from that which beats the play. To cross can also indicate the action to take a lifting with a chart of asset if one cannot provide in the color.
  • To distribute : to allot the charts to the players, with one or by packages, while turning in the direction of the needles of a watch or in the other direction, according to the practiced play. The player who distributes the charts is called the donor.

Plays using of the traditional charts

There exist several types of card decks and one can play there in different ways.

  • the traditional card decks Western are generally composed of 32 to 52 possibly matched charts of one or more jokers, or 78 charts for the charts of Tarot.

  • the board games which are practiced with one or more packages of traditional charts and which are the subject of an article on Wikipédia, are gathered in the category “traditional Card deck”.

Sets of liftings

In the plays of lifting, with each turn, a lifting (a chart of each player) is with the stake. According to the played game, the objective can be to gain the lifting, not to gain it, gain certain specific charts or not to gain them. In the Bridge, only the number of collected liftings imports. In other plays like the Belote, the manille, the Tarot or the Taroinche, it is the value of the charts collected in the liftings which counts.

These plays, whose Bridge, Belote, Jass and Tarot, are gathered in the " category; Play of levées".

Sets of combinations

Plays of casino or chance

  • Baccara
  • Blackjack
  • Poker

Solitary plays (or Patiences )

Plays of trues

Plays of accumulation

Various plays

Card deck to be collected

See the detailed article Card deck to collect.

Specific card decks

The specific card decks use charts designed especially for them. They can be the property of a editor of board games or belong to the public domain.

modern

traditional

See too

External bonds

encyclopedic sites

  • Plays of cartes.net: French-speaking gate on the card decks and charts to play
  • '' An introduction to playing cards '' (an introduction to the charts to be played)
  • '' Tarot and Playing Cards Museum '' (site entirely in English with a banner page in French)

associations of collectors of charts to be played

  • ACCART (France)
  • IPCS (International)

game manufacturers of charts

  • Group France Charts
  • Group Carta Mundi
  • Heritage Playing Card Company
  • Lo Scarabeo
  • US The Playing Card Company (part of the site presents the rules of American card decks)
  • Fournier (part of the site presents the rules of Spanish card decks)
  • Modiano

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