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2. Following (card game) - Wikipedia

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   Following is a patience or card solitaire that uses a single pack of playing cards. It is so called because a player has to follow a rotation of suits. It was first described in 1892 in Games of Patience by Mary Whitmore Jones [1] and has since appeared in other books and software. [2]

3. Accordion (card game) - Wikipedia

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   Played with a single deck, "no skill is required". Two cards of equal rank are placed at the top and bottom of the shuffled pack and the top 4 cards dealt to the table in a row. If the outer cards are of the same rank or suit, the inner cards are discarded, otherwise the next card is added to the row.

4. Flower Garden (card game) - Wikipedia

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   The Flower Garden is an old patience or card solitaire using a single deck of 52 playing cards, [1] and is based on an old Japanese game. [2] It was first called Le Parterre, but is also known under the names The Bouquet and The Garden.

5. Scorpion (solitaire) - Wikipedia

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   Scorpion II is an alternate version of the game in which the number of columns containing three face-down cards and the number of columns in which all cards are faced up are the reverse of the prevalent version, i.e. the first three columns each have three face-down cards with four face-up cards placed over them while the cards in the remaining four columns are all faced up.

6. Clubs (suit) - Wikipedia

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   Its original French name is Trèfle which means "clover" and the card symbol depicts a three-leafed clover leaf.The Italian name is Fiori ("flower"). However, the English name "Clubs" is a translation of basto, the Spanish name for the suit of batons suggesting that Spanish-suited cards were used in England before French suits were invented.

7. Spades (suit) - Wikipedia

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   It symbolises the pike or halberd, two medieval weapons, but is actually an adaptation of the German suit symbol of Leaves created when French suits were invented around 1480. [1] In bridge, spades rank as the highest suit. In skat and similar games, it is the second-highest suit.