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The distinction is that the gameplay of a card game primarily depends on the use of the cards by players the board is simply a guide for scorekeeping or for card placement , while board games the principal non-card game genre to use cards generally focus on the players' positions on the board, and use the cards for some secondary purpose.

A Chinese playing card dated c. A card game is played with a deck or pack of playing cards which are identical in size and shape. Each card has two sides, the face and the back. Normally the backs of the cards are indistinguishable. The faces of the cards may all be unique, or there can be duplicates. The composition of a deck is known to each player. In some cases several decks are shuffled together to form a single pack or shoe. The first playing cards appeared in the ninth century during Tang dynasty China.

Mahjong tiles are a 19th century invention based on three-suited money playing card decks, similar to the way in which Rummikub tiles were derived recently from modern Western playing cards. The same kind of games can also be played with tiles made of wood, plastic, bone, or similar materials.

The most notable examples of such tile sets are dominoes , mahjong tiles and Rummikub tiles. Chinese dominoes are also available as playing cards. It is not clear whether Emperor Muzong of Liao really played with domino cards as early as , though. Nowadays, the best-known deck internationally is the French-suited deck with English styling. Optionally, such decks may come with up to four additional suitless cards known as jokers. In many European countries, French-suited decks are used with different local styling.

As many continental European games are played with less than 52 cards, smaller decks that lack the highest or lowest numerical ranks other than the ace are more common than card decks in some countries. Most notably, the French-suited card piquet deck only has the ranks from king, queen etc.

The French suits came up around and were cheaper to print. In France they mostly replaced the earlier Latin suits swords , clubs , cups and coins , [4] which are still common in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries as well as in some northern regions of Italy. Instead of queens it has knights or cavaliers , and instead of jacks it has servants or valets.

But nowadays the most common Latin-suited deck has only 40 cards, dropping ranks eight to ten. Playing cards first appeared in Europe in the last quarter of the 14th century. The traditional playing cards in Central Europe have German suits and are generally more similar to Latin-suited cards than to French-suited cards.

Switzerland has a distinct variant of German suits. However, in many areas German-suited cards have been replaced by French-suited cards. The s in Italy saw the invention of the tarot deck , a full Latin-suited deck augmented by suitless cards with painted motifs that played a special role as trumps. Tarot, tarock and tarocchi games are still played with subsets of these decks in parts of Central Europe. The replacement of these decks by French-suited tarot decks in France is a relatively recent development.

In Japan, a distinct card hanafuda deck is popular. It is derived from 16th century Portuguese decks. Apart from general-purpose decks of playing cards, dedicated decks are manufactured for various purposes.

Any specific card game imposes restrictions on the number of players. The most significant dividing lines run between one-player games and two-player games, and between two-player games and multi-player games. Card games for one player are known as solitaire or patience card games. See list of solitaire card games. Generally speaking, they are in many ways special and atypical, although some of them have given rise to two- or multi-player games such as Spite and Malice.

In card games for two players, usually not all cards are distributed to the players, as they would otherwise have perfect information about the game state. Two-player games have always been immensely popular and include some of the most significant card games such as piquet , bezique , sixty-six , klaberjass , gin rummy and cribbage. Many multi-player games started as two-player games that were adapted to a greater number of players. For such adaptations a number of non-obvious choices must be made beginning with the choice of a game orientation.

One way of extending a two-player game to more players is by building two teams of equal size. A common case is four players in two fixed partnerships, sitting crosswise as in whist and contract bridge. Partners sit opposite to each other and cannot see each other's hands. If communication between the partners is allowed at all, then it is usually restricted to a specific list of permitted signs and signals. Another way of extending a two-player game to more players is as a cut-throat game, in which all players fight on their own, and win or lose alone.

Most cut-throat card games are round games , i. For some of the most interesting games such as ombre , tarot and skat card game , the associations between players change from hand to hand. Ultimately players all play on their own, but for each hand, some game mechanism divides the players into two teams. Most typically these are solo games , i. But in games for more than three players, there may also be a mechanism that selects two players who then have to play against the others.

The players of a card game normally form a circle around a table or other space that can hold cards. The game orientation or direction of play , which obviously is only relevant for three or more players, can be either clockwise or counter-clockwise. It is the direction in which various roles in the game proceed. Most regions have a traditional direction of play, such as:. Europe is roughly divided into a clockwise area in the north and a counter-clockwise area in the south.

Games that originate in a region with a strong preference are often initially played in the original direction, even in regions that prefer the opposite direction. For games that have official rules and are played in tournaments, the direction of play is often prescribed in those rules.

Most games have some form of asymmetry between players. The roles of players are normally expressed in terms of the dealer , i.

Being the dealer can be a minor or major advantage or disadvantage, depending on the game. Therefore, after each played hand, the deal normally passes to the next player according to the game orientation.

As it can still be an advantage or disadvantage to be the first dealer, there are some standard methods for determining who is the first dealer. A common method is by cutting, which works as follows. One player shuffles the deck and places it on the table.

Each player lifts a packet of cards from the top, reveals its bottom card, and returns it to the deck. The player who reveals the highest or lowest card becomes dealer. In case of a tie, the process is repeated by the tied players. For some games such as whist this process of cutting is part of the official rules, and the hierarchy of cards for the purpose of cutting which need not be the same as that used otherwise in the game is also specified.

But in general any method can be used, such as tossing a coin in case of a two-player game, drawing cards until one player draws an ace, or rolling dice. A hand is a unit of the game that begins with the dealer shuffling and dealing the cards as described below, and ends with the players scoring and the next dealer being determined.

The set of cards that each player receives and holds in his or her hands is also known as that player's hand. The hand is over when the players have finished playing their hands. Most often this occurs when one player or all has no cards left. The player who sits after the dealer in the direction of play is known as eldest hand or in two-player games as elder hand.

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