n
Alternative spelling of three-card monte [A confidence game in which the victim, or mark, is tricked into betting a sum of money that they can find the money card, for example the queen of hearts, among three face-down playing cards.]
n
Alternative form of Texas 42 [A game played with a set of common double-six dominoes.]
n
Ace. (including in card games)
n
(card games) A bid to take nine or more tricks in solo whist.
n
(card games, dice games) A card or die face so marked.
n
Alternative form of eighter from Decatur [(US, slang, gambling) An eight in the game of craps.]
n
A solitaire card game played with two decks.
n
A card game similar to whist.
n
A variety of playing cards used to play the game.
n
A card game in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or "pitching" the trump suit.
n
(card games) A card game resembling chemin de fer with many forms - usually entailing the player(s) betting against two or three hands dealt - also bearing some similarities to blackjack.
n
(card games) A solitaire card game, starting with 13 piles of 4 cards each.
n
A variety of FreeCell in which cards on the tableau are built down by suit (e.g., place 4♦ on 5♦).
n
(uncountable, card games) A card game resembling faro.
n
(cartomancy) The fifteenth Lenormand card.
n
A trick-taking card game using a 32 card deck.
n
Alternative form of belote [A trick-taking card game using a 32 card deck.]
n
A trick-taking card game for two players.
n
(card games) The ten of diamonds in the game of cassino.
n
A shedding-type card game with many variants.
n
(literally) A card used in playing the game of bingo.
adj
(card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”)
n
(slang, games) The trick-taking card game hearts.
n
(card games) A combative variant of whist, similar to the game of hearts.
n
(card games) A variant of switch where each player is initially dealt the same number of cards, usually seven, and when one player plays a black jack the player whose turn comes next has to pick up that many cards, unless they play a red jack (as this normally cancels a black jack).
n
A simple game of chance using playing cards.
n
(card games) A playing card, needed by one player, that is held by another.
v
(card games, intransitive) In whist, to play a blue peter.
n
(card games) A meld of seven wild cards in said card game.
n
(whist) Six tricks taken by one side.
n
(card games) An eighteenth-century trick-taking card game for four players, with two packs of fifty-two cards each.
n
(card games) A card game resembling poker.
n
(card games) The reserve of cards in the game of Flower Garden and variations.
n
(card games) A card game traditionally played in Louisiana, US.
n
(slang, dice games) Double six in a dice game with two dice.
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A French card game: three of a kind; gleek.
n
(slang, archaic) A playing card.
n
(card games) Whist played in an unscientific way.
n
(obsolete) A card game played with a pack of forty cards, the tens, nines and eights being discarded.
n
(card games, slang) The queen of spades.
n
A card game similar to all fours.
n
(countable, card games) A meld of seven cards in a game of canasta.
n
(UK) A type of solitaire card game; in the UK typically referring to Klondike, and in the US to Demon.
n
(card games) A winning of all the tricks in the game of piquet, counting for forty points.
n
(in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
n
(games) Any of the many games played with playing cards.
n
Alternative form of card game [(games) Any of the many games played with playing cards.]
n
(uncountable) A structure of plate-like mineral deposits that rest on each other's edges, similar to a cardhouse.
n
One who plays card games.
n
(Scotland, dated) A playing card.
n
(card games) The third card to be drawn by the dealer in the game of faro (after the soda and the banker's card), placed on the left of the shoe for the players.
n
(uncountable) A card game for two to four players.
n
(countable) Any of certain cards with special meanings in this game.
n
(card games, dice games, obsolete) The four of cards or dice.
n
A gambling game played with dice.
n
(card games) In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.
n
A card game, a variation of baccarat.
n
(UK, slang, card games) The card game called chemin de fer.
n
(card games) A variety of auction pitch in which a draw to improve the hand is added, and the five of trumps (called "right Pedro") and the five of the same colour (called "left Pedro", and ranking between the five and the four of trumps) are each worth five. Fifty-one points make a game.
n
(dice games, card games, dominoes) A card, die, or domino with five spots or pips.
n
A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
n
(obsolete) An old game, usually with three players on each side, based around guessing which of the players' hands is hiding a coin or button.
n
(obsolete, card games) The winning of the majority of tricks in the game of ombre.
n
(card games) One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
n
An 18th-century French card game in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.
n
(card games) A suit of cards, in certain French card games.
n
(card games) A king, queen, or jack/knave card in a standard deck of playing cards.
n
A trick-taking card game similar to whist.
n
(card games, slang) A playing card of queen rank.
n
(slang) A playing card with the rank of three.
n
(card games) A card game in which players try to rid themselves of their cards by playing a matching rank or suit on the previous card played, having to draw an additional card if unable to do this; a player who plays an eight can dictate the suit to be played next.
n
(cribbage) The card game cribbage.
n
(UK, obsolete) The game of wagering money on heads or tails.
n
(tarot) A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or one of the cards from the suit.
n
(dice games) A die with ten sides, most often with sides numbered 0 to 9.
n
(dice games) A die with eight sides.
n
(card games, by extension) A set of cards owned by each individual player and from which they draw when playing.
n
(dice games) A side of a die with two spots.
n
Obsolete form of deuce (“the Devil”). [(card games) A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.]
n
(card games) A card of the diamonds suit.
n
(slang) A playing card with the rank of ten.
n
(cartomancy) The eighteenth Lenormand card.
n
(dominoes) A tile that has the same value (i.e., the same number of pips) on both sides.
n
(uncountable, card games) A form of solitaire.
adj
(games) In which the hands of cards, tiles, etc. are preserved between rounds to be played again by other players.
n
The ace of spades with a duty legal stamp, reflecting the tax owing on a pack of playing cards.
n
(Ireland, slang, obsolete, card games) The ace of diamonds.
n
A card game for two persons, with 32 cards, ranking K, Q, J, A, 10, 9, 8, 7. Five cards are dealt each player, and the 11th turned as trump. Five points constitute a game.
n
A gambling technique by which a player determines whether a face-down playing card is likely to be low or high, by observing and exploiting subtle unintentional differences on the backs of some types of card, after arranging for the croupier to cooperate by unwittingly sorting the cards into low and high.
n
A variety of FreeCell in which there are eight available cells. Four of them are filled at the beginning of the game.
n
(tarot) The third trump or major arcana card of most tarot decks.
n
(card games) A trump card game played by four players in two partnerships with a reduced deck of 24 cards.
n
(US, card games) A playing card which has a picture on it: usually jack, queen or king, but sometimes an ace or joker
n
A card game in which the cards are played in sequences upon the table, and the winner is the first player to have no cards left.
n
(card games) A game of chance played by betting on the order in which certain cards will appear when taken singly from the top of the pack.
n
three-card monte (a card gambling game)
n
(cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
n
(card games) A trick-taking card game with elements of euchre and bridge.
n
(card games) five cards of the same rank, often only possible if one or more wild cards are being used.
n
Alternative form of five of a kind [(card games) five cards of the same rank, often only possible if one or more wild cards are being used.]
n
A call in any children's game, such as jacks, where five actions must be performed.
n
(card games) A card game from the seventeenth century.
n
A solitaire card game, similar to Klondike, but starting with ten columns of four visible cards on the tableau.
n
(card games) In solitaire or patience games, one of the piles of cards that the player attempts to build, usually holding all cards of a suit in ascending order.
n
A type of patience card game.
n
A call in any children's game, such as jacks, where four actions must be performed.
n
(cartomancy) The fourteenth Lenormand card.
n
The standard deck of 52 playing cards.
n
(cartomancy) The twentieth Lenormand card.
n
A form of solitaire in which the goal is to remove all cards by creating pairs that add up to 11.
n
(historical) A traditional memory game in which players must accurately repeat an increasingly long sentence, with forfeits and additional rules imposed for making mistakes.
n
(card games) A card-holding game and variant of rummy.
n
(countable) Three of the same cards held in one hand; three of a kind.
v
(card games) In the game of napoleon, to declare all five tricks success, rewarded by double payment all round.
n
A card game, of interest in game theory, in which each player is given one suit of cards and makes secret bids for cards of the remaining suit, every card being worth its face value.
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(Ireland, card games) The six of hearts.
n
(card games) The ten of diamonds in the game of cassino.
n
Alternative form of handgame [(games) A Native American guessing game, in which marked "bones" are concealed in the hands of one team while another team guesses their location.]
n
(obsolete, uncountable, card games) An old card game, similar to lanterloo.
n
A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols.
n
(card games) An early variant of the game of hearts, having a set of cards called the widow that must be taken by the player winning the first trick.
n
(card games) The cards set aside for later use in a patience or solitaire game.
adj
(card games) Of or related to a high suit card.
n
(uncountable) A card game where a player has to guess if the next card will be higher or lower than the one shown.
n
(collectible card games, often capitalized) A game format in which players are allowed no more than one of any card (except basic resource cards) in their decks.
n
(card games, obsolete, UK, North Country) The four of hearts, considered an unlucky card.
n
(card games, slang) A jack (the playing card).
n
(cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.
n
A structure made by stacking playing cards in a pyramidal fashion.
n
Any of various games of solitaire or patience.
n
(card games, countable) Any of several combinations of cards which score in this game.
n
(card games) The winning of the coup in a game of rouge et noir by a card of a color different from that first dealt; the area of the table reserved for bets upon such an outcome.
n
(card games) A form of lanterloo with no dummy and in which players are permitted to exchange their cards.
n
(games) A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks.
n
(card games) One of the 52 playing cards in a standard deck.
n
(card games) A trick-taking card game popular in Switzerland and neighboring areas of Germany and Austria.
n
A playing card that features a picture of a joker (that is, a jester) and that may be used as a wild card in some card games.
n
A card game, played in teams of two, the object being to get four of a kind, then silently communicate the fact to one's partner, who shouts "Kemps!".
n
(card games) A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.
n
(card games) One of the 52 playing cards in a standard deck.
n
(card games) One of the 52 playing cards in a standard deck.
n
(card games) One of the 52 playing cards in a standard deck.
n
(card games) A certain trick-taking card game.
n
(card games) A particular solitaire card game, requiring ordering randomly ordered cards according to rank.
n
Alternative form of jack of diamonds [(card games) One of the 52 playing cards in a standard deck.]
n
Alternative form of jack of spades [(card games) One of the 52 playing cards in a standard deck.]
n
(card games) An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards.
n
(obsolete) The card game lanterloo.
n
(uncountable) A gambling card game in which the dealer is given an initial card and the players another; cards are then turned up until the value (rank) of one of those cards is met.
n
(uncountable, card games) A trick-taking card game popular in 17th-century England, where each player is dealt three or five cards.
n
(bingo) A traditional call for the number eleven usually during the game Bingo.
n
(card games, usually in the plural) A royal spade in auction bridge.
n
(card games) The two of spades in the game of cassino.
n
(gambling, dice games) Synonym of Little Joe (“the point of four in the game of craps”).
n
A gambling game popular in the eighteenth century.
n
(obsolete, gaming) A hand or match in a game of dice.
n
(card games, slang) The king of diamonds in a deck of playing cards.
n
A counter, especially one used in card games.
n
(card games) A king and a queen, when held as a hand in some versions of poker or melded in pinochle.
n
(card games) The jack of clubs, or any other trump held in sequence with it, in the game of skat.
n
(classical studies) An ancient bluffing game played with dice.
n
The court cards and numbered pip cards in a tarot deck.
n
Alternative form of mistigri (“card game”) [A card game, resembling poker, in which the joker is used.]
n
(obsolete) The jack in the game of bowls
n
(blackjack) A face card.
n
(uncountable, card games) A game in which three or four cards are dealt face-up and players bet on which of them will first be matched in suit by others dealt.
n
(slang) A queen (the playing card).
n
(card games) A variety of dummy whist for three players.
n
(card games, obsolete) In the game of gleek, four cards of the same face value.
n
(uncountable) A card game based on building in suits or matching exposed cards, the object being to get rid of one's cards.
n
An old game of chance played with cards in silence.
n
(uncountable, card games) A card game in which players take tricks; properly Napoleon.
n
(card games, uncountable) A 19th-century five-card trick-taking game simplified from euchre.
n
(card games, slang) The four of spades.
v
Alternative form of netdeck [(slang, collectible card games, derogatory) To use decklists copied from the Internet.]
n
(uncountable) A card game in which players try to play their cards in a sequence selected by cards from a second deck.
n
(slang) A playing card with the rank of nine
n
(card games) A playing card with nine pips.
n
A call in any children's game, such as jacks, where nine actions must be performed.
n
(uncountable) A card game in which cards must be paired and one undesirable card is designated "old maid".
n
Alternative form of one-eyed jack [(card games, slang) Either card of the rank of jack commonly depicted in the profiles of the jack of spades or jack of hearts.]
n
(card games, slang) The king of diamonds in a deck of playing cards.
n
(dated) The game of craps.
n
The assortment of playing cards used in a particular game.
n
A set of usually 52 playing cards divided into four suites used for playing a variety of card games such as pontoon, bridge, euchre, poker, etc.
n
(card games) three of a kind in certain card games.
n
A card game, similar to napoleon, in which the jack of clubs is the highest trump.
n
A 19th-century gambling card game resembling rummy, probably of Philippine origin, and usually played with eight decks of cards.
n
(card games) The anaconda variant of poker.
n
Any of various card games that can be played by one person. Called solitaire in the US and Canada.
n
The five of trumps in certain card games.
n
A memory card game in which a pack of cards is spread out face down and players try to turn up pairs with the same symbol.
n
(card games, uncountable) A card game resembling bezique.
n
(uncountable, card games) The card game faro.
n
A playing card which has a picture on it (usually Jack, Queen or King (coat card), but sometimes including Ace or Joker).
n
(card games) A card game, similar to bezique.
n
One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.
n
(card games) In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.
n
(card games) A game of cards for two people, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes being set aside.
n
(blackjack) A game dealt from a maximum of two decks, without the use of a shoe.
adj
(card games) Not a trump.
n
Any of the usually 52 rectangular pieces of card used to play numerous games, featuring either one to 10 pips or a picture and belonging of one of four suits.
n
(card games) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards whose value adds up to, or nearly to, 21 but not exceed it.
n
(card games) A card game played on a round board with compartments.
n
(obsolete) A sixteenth-century gambling card game about which little is known.
n
A 16th-century English gambling card game.
n
A card game, related to bridge, Boston, and whist.
n
(card games) Alternative form of pair royal [(card games) three of a kind in certain card games.]
n
An old card game resembling poker.
n
A type of court card used in tarot cards, the equivalent of the jack.
n
A version of Rummy played in Sri Lanka
n
A solitaire card game with four waste piles located at the corners of a square of the four aces.
n
(uncountable) An old card game.
n
(card games) A solitaire card game where the cards are arranged as a triangle (a "pyramid") and the object is to get the cards from the bottom to the top.
n
(slang, sexuality) Initialism of queen of spades. [(card games) One of the 52 playing cards in a standard deck.]
n
(card games) Four successive cards of the same suit.
n
(card games) The four aces, kings, queens, jacks, or tens, in the game of piquet, any of these counting as fourteen points.
n
(archaic, dice games, card games, dominoes) A card, die, or domino with four spots or pips.
n
A playing card with a depiction of a queen on it, generally ranking next below the king and above the jack in a given suit.
n
(slang, card games) The queen of clubs.
n
(card games) One of the 52 playing cards in a standard deck.
n
(card games) One of the 52 playing cards in a standard deck.
n
(card games) One of the 52 playing cards in a standard deck.
n
(gambling) Alternative form of quiniela [(gambling) A kind of bet in which the first- and second-place finishers must be predicted, but (unlike a perfecta) not necessarily in the correct order.]
n
(card games) In piquet, a sequence of five playing cards of the same suit; equivalent to a straight flush in poker
n
A form of ombre (card game) for five players
n
An old French card game of Spanish origin, players attempting to make fifteen points.
n
(card games) A card game that combines several different contracts.
n
(card games) A French trick-taking card game related to nap and loo.
n
(card games, bridge and whist) A re-entry card.
adj
(card games, of a card) Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black (“of the spades or clubs suits”)
n
(card games) In the game of trente et quarante, the situation where the aggregate pip value of cards dealt to red equals that of those dealt to black. All bets are then off, unless the value is 31, in which case the banker wins half the stakes.
n
An old trick-taking card game, popular with the French aristocracy in the 17th and 18th centuries.
n
The rhombus diamond, as one of the suits seen in a deck of playing cards ( or ).
n
(euchre) The jack of the trump suit, the highest card in the game except the joker.
n
(card games) A drinking game in which each card of a pack of playing cards, picked at random from a deck sprawled out in a circle, has a certain consequence (involving drinking, or playing a particular drinking game).
n
A solitaire card game played with two decks of playing cards.
n
(card games) In the game of pinochle, a meld consisting of a queen and king in each of the four suits.
n
(card games) Especially in bezique and piquet: a score which, if not achieved by a losing player, increases the player's penalty.
n
(rare) The card game rummy.
n
(card games) A variety of auction pitch in which the nine (Sancho) and five (Pedro) of trumps are added as counting cards at their pip value, and the ten of trumps counts game.
n
(card games) A Neapolitan card game.
n
(countable, card games) A card bearing seven pips.
n
(card games) A card game similar to all fours, won by scoring seven points.
n
A call in any children's game, such as jacks, where seven actions must be performed.
n
A variant of the card game California Jack in which the stock of undealt cards is kept face down.
n
(card games) A device for holding multiple decks of playing cards, allowing more games to be played by reducing the time between shuffles.
n
(rare) pair of sixes of dice
n
(dominoes) A tile that has a different value (i.e. number of pips) at each end.
n
Obsolete spelling of cinque [(dice games, card games, dominoes) A card, die, or domino with five spots or pips.]
n
(obsolete, dice games) six
n
(gambling) A loaded die fashioned so that the numbers 1 and 6 come up more frequently than others.
n
(countable) A widow of two cards in the game of skat.
n
A card game, played all at once without separate turns, in which players attempt to get rid of their cards as quickly as possible according to certain rules.
n
(uncountable) A simple card game similar to snap.
n
Trick-taking card game for four players in which the aim is to avoid taking the first and last tricks and the queen of clubs
n
(slang) A playing card with the rank of eight.
n
(games) A card game similar to whist in which each player plays against the others in turn without a partner
n
One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♠.
n
(card games) The queen of clubs, in certain games.
n
(countable, Britain, historical) A drinking game in which players hold up to three (or another specified number of) coins hidden in a fist and attempt to guess the total number of coins held.
n
(uncountable, games) A card game similar to group solitaire.
n
A playing card that has its value shown in a corner such that a closely arranged hand may be studied (originally designed for poker but now standard).
n
(card games, in a card game) A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
n
(cartomancy) The seventeenth Lenormand card.
n
(card games) Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by color and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds, or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic, and French playing cards.
n
(card games, in combination) Something having a certain number of suits.
n
(card games) Four privileged cards, formerly used in betting in whist.
n
(card games) A variant of crazy eights where one card, such as an ace, reverses the direction of play.
n
(poker, metonymically) The lineup of players at a given table.
n
(card games) Mostly in solitaire card games, but also in other card and board games, the main area, where random cards can be arranged.
n
A trick-taking card game spread throughout the British Empire by Scottish soldiers; still played in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia; Lebanon and Afghanistan.
n
Any of the set of 78 playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used for mystical divination.
n
(tarot) The fourteenth trump or major arcana card in most traditional Tarot decks.
n
(countable, card games) A card in a given suit with a value of ten.
n
A game played with a set of common double-six dominoes.
n
The playing card featuring three pips.
n
(chiefly Britain) A card game somewhat like a simplified form of poker, and one of poker's several ancestors
n
(card games) A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king and queen is called tierce-major.
n
(obsolete) The jack of trumps in the card game gleek.
n
The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many Tarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen.
n
(card games, occasionally dice games) A playing card or die with the rank of three.
n
(gambling, slang) A combined bet consisting of three doubles and one treble.
n
a card game originating in 15th-century eastern Spain
n
a card game, derived from late medieval game Truc, originating in eastern Spain and popular in South America and Italy
n
(card games) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
n
(card games) A trick-taking card game, originally from Italy.
n
A solitaire card game with the goal of making a five-by-five square of cards so that every row and column is valid.
n
A card game similar to crazy eights, played with specially printed cards that have colours instead of suits.
n
(obsolete, card games) The jack.
n
(archaic) The card game vingt-et-un.
n
(informal) The card game vingt-et-un / pontoon
n
(games) A Russian card game similar to bridge and whist.
n
(card games) A solitaire card game using two mixed decks of playing cards, and in which the foundations are built up by suit in intervals of three.
n
(uncountable, card games) Any of a family of card games where all cards are dealt at the beginning of play and players attempt to capture them all, typically involving no skill and only serving to kill time.
n
(card games) In the game of nap, a bid that results in the bidder winning quadruple, or losing double, the amount staked.
n
Any of several four-player card games, similar to bridge.
n
A player of the card game whist.
n
A card game in which one can discard certain cards from one's hand and replace them with cards from the deck.
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