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2. Rook (card game) - Wikipedia

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   2 to 6 players. Setup time. 1 to 2 minutes. Playing time. 10 to 60 minutes per round, Any number of rounds. Rook is a trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards. Sometimes referred to as Christian cards or missionary cards, [1] [2] Rook playing cards were introduced by Parker Brothers in 1906 to provide an alternative to ...

3. Diamonds (suit) - Wikipedia

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   Diamonds (suit) Diamonds. Native name. French: Carreau. Deck. French-suited playing cards. Diamonds () ( French: Carreau) is one of the four playing card suits in the standard French-suited playing cards. It is the only French suit to not have been adapted from the German deck, taking the place of the suit of Bells .

4. 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 ...

5. Five-suit bridge - Wikipedia

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   Five-suit bridge is a late 1930s variation of contract bridge played with a deck of 65 playing cards divided into five suits. History. In the summer of 1937 in Vienna, Walter W. Marseille, with the help of Paul Stern, published rules for five-suit bridge which included a fifth suit of green Leaves, taken from German-suited William Tell cards.

6. Dominoes - Wikipedia

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   Dominoes is a family of tile-based games played with gaming pieces. Each domino is a rectangular tile, usually with a line dividing its face into two square ends. Each end is marked with a number of spots (also called pips or dots) or is blank. The backs of the tiles in a set are indistinguishable, either blank or having some common design.

7. Glossary of patience terms - Wikipedia

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   suit One of the four families of cards in a pack all sharing the same symbol e.g. Clubs, Spades, Hearts and Diamonds or Acorns, Leaves, Hearts and Bells. suite A pile of cards that has been built in sequence on a foundation card. Same as foundation pile. An Ace-suite is one based on an Ace, etc. A full sequence of 13 cards of one suit.