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Tuesday, 16 April 2013

Playing Cards


Illusions with Playing Cards

A playing card is a piece of specially prepared thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin plastic, marked with distinguishing motifs and used as one of a set for playing card games. Playing cards are typically palm-sized for convenient handling.

A complete set of cards is called a pack or deck, and the subset of cards held at one time by a player during a game is commonly called a hand. A deck of cards may be used for playing a great variety of card games, with varying elements of skill and chance, some of which are played for money. Because playing cards are standardized and commonly available, they are used for other purposes, such as illusions, cartomancy, cardistry, and building card structures.

The front (or "face") of each card carries markings that distinguish it from the other cards in the deck and determine its use under the rules of the game being played. The back of each card is identical for all cards in any particular deck, and usually of a single color or formalized design. Usually every card will be smooth; however, some decks have braille to allow blind people to read the card number and suit. For most games, the cards are assembled into a deck, and their order is randomized by shuffling.

A deck of 52 cards has 

26 red cards and 
26 black cardswhich consist of 

13 – Hearts (H) -  {Ace-A, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Jack-J, Queen-Q, King-K} 
13 – Diamonds (D) -  {Ace-A, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Jack-J, Queen-Q, King-K} 
13 – Spades (S) - {Ace-A, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Jack-J, Queen-Q, King-K}, and 
13 – Clubs (C) - {Ace-A, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Jack-J, Queen-Q, King-K}

With these 52 cards, there are also some cards which is called Face cards (12) i.e., 
4-Kings (K)
4-Queens (Q) and 
4-Jacks (J).

Except these 52 cards another one card is there known as JOKER.

Example set of 52 poker playing cards

Suit                       Ace         2         3          4             5           6          7            8            9             10       Jack    Queen   King
Hearts                   Ace of hearts2 of hearts3 of hearts4 of hearts5 of hearts6 of hearts7 of hearts8 of hearts9 of hearts10 of heartsJack of heartsQueen of heartsKing of hearts
Diamonds             Ace of diamonds2 of diamonds3 of diamonds4 of diamonds5 of diamonds6 of diamonds7 of diamonds8 of diamonds9 of diamonds10 of diamondsJack of diamondsQueen of diamondsKing of diamonds
Spades                  Ace of spades2 of spades3 of spades4 of spades5 of spades6 of spades7 of spades8 of spades9 of spades10 of spadesJack of spadesQueen of spadesKing of spades
Clubs                   Ace of clubs2 of clubs3 of clubs4 of clubs5 of clubs6 of clubs7 of clubs8 of clubs9 of clubs10 of clubsJack of clubsQueen of clubsKing of clubs

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