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Bridge

Posted by Nicolae on November 1st, 2008 under Bridge
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Players: 4
Age range: recommended for 12 and up
Setup time < 2 minutes
Playing time: WBF tournament games = 7.5 minutes per deal
Rules complexity; Medium
Strategy depth: High
Random chance: Low - high depending on variant played
Skills required: Memory, Tactics
Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game of skill, and partly of chance, for four [...]

Bourré

Posted by Nicolae on October 18th, 2008 under Card games, Rules
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Bourré (also commonly known as Bouré and Boo-Ray) is a trick-taking gambling card game primarily played in the Acadiana region of Louisiana in the United States of America. The game’s closest relatives are probably Spades and Poker; like many regional games, Bourré sports a large number of variant rules for both [...]

Liar’s poker

Posted by Nicolae on October 2nd, 2008 under Card games, Poker
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Liar’s poker is a bar game that combines statistical reasoning with bluffing, and is played with the eight-digit serial number on a dollar bill. Normally the game is played with a stack of random bills obtained from the cash register.The object is to make the highest bid of a number that does [...]

Playing cards today

Posted by Nicolae on September 16th, 2008 under Playing cards
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Anglo-American
The primary deck of fifty-two playing cards in use today, called Anglo-American playing cards, includes thirteen ranks of each of the four French suits, spades (♠), hearts (♥), diamonds (♦) and clubs (♣), with reversible Rouennais court cards. Each suit includes an ace, depicting a single symbol of its [...]

History of playing cards

Posted by Nicolae on August 31st, 2008 under History, Playing cards
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Early history
The origin of playing cards is obscure, but it is almost certain that they began in China after the invention of paper. Ancient Chinese “money cards” have four “suits”: coins (or cash), strings of coins (which may have been misinterpreted as sticks from crude drawings), myriads of strings, and tens of [...]

Playing cards

Posted by Nicolae on July 7th, 2008 under Playing cards
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A playing card is a typically hand-sized piece of heavy paper or thin plastic used for playing card games. A complete set of cards is a pack or deck. Playing cards are often used as props in magic tricks, as well as occult practices such as cartomancy, and a number of card games [...]

Card games

Posted by Nicolae on June 22nd, 2008 under Card games, games
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A card game is any game using playing cards, either traditional or game-specific.
The deck or pack
A card game is played with a deck (common in the US), or pack (common in the UK), of cards intended for that game. The deck consists of a fixed number of pieces of printed cardboard known as [...]

Play mahjong

Posted by Nicolae on June 21st, 2008 under Mahjong, games
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View from a player going to discard a tile in an ongoing gameplay.
Players may read the name of the discarded tile out loud.
The flower tile on the left should be replaced by a tile from the dead wall promptly.
Each player is dealt either 13 tiles for 13-tile variations or 16 tiles [...]

Mahjong equipment

Posted by Nicolae on June 20th, 2008 under Mahjong, games
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Basic equipment: chips, tiles and dice.
Mahjong houses provide a convenient venue for Mahjong old hands. This is a typical scene of Mahjong house in Wan Chai, Hong Kong.
Mahjong, can be played either with a set of Mahjong tiles, or less commonly, a set of Mahjong playing cards (sometimes spelled ‘kards’ to [...]

Mahjong international rules

Posted by Nicolae on June 19th, 2008 under Mahjong, Rules, games
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In 1998 the China State Sports Commission, in the interest of changing mahjong from an illegal gambling game to an approved ‘healthy sport’, published a new set of rules, now generally referred to as Chinese Official rules or International Tournament rules. The principles of the new, ‘healthy’ mahjong are: no gambling – [...]