Playing card

A game of l'hombre in Brøndum's Hotel
by Anna Palm de Rosa, 1885
Paul Cézanne's The Card Players, 1895
The King of Hearts

Playing cards is the name for the 52 cards used in card games like poker, bridge, blackjack, solitaire and other games.

There are 52 basic cards in a deck (not including the jokers). These cards have a suit and a number (called the value or rank). There are 4 suits and 13 ranks in each suit. Decks may include a wide variety of regional and national patterns, and different deck sizes. The English pattern of cards is so widespread that it is often also known as the International or Anglo-American pattern.


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