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Joker (playing card), the Glossary

The Joker is a playing card found in most modern French-suited card decks, as an addition to the standard four suits (Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, and Spades).^[1]

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Aces Up

Aces Up is a quick and simple, one-pack, patience or solitaire card game.

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The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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BBC Online

BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service.

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Bester Bube

Bester Bube ("Best Bower"), also Fiefkort mit 'n besten Buren ("Five Cards with the Best Bowers"), is an historical German card game for 3–6 players played with a Piquet pack.

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Bicycle Playing Cards

Bicycle Playing Cards is a brand of playing cards. Joker (playing card) and Bicycle Playing Cards are playing cards.

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Bug (poker)

A bug in poker is a limited form of wild card.

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Canasta

Canasta (Spanish for "basket") is a card game of the rummy family of games believed to be a variant of 500 Rum.

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Card game

A card game is any game that uses playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, whether the cards are of a traditional design or specifically created for the game (proprietary).

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Charles Goodall & Sons

Charles Goodall (also referred to as Charles Goodall & Sons or just Goodall) was a British playing card maker based in London; first at Soho and later in Camden.

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Clown

A clown is a person who performs physical comedy and arts in an open-ended fashion, typically while wearing distinct makeup or costuming and reversing folkway-norms.

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Collecting

The hobby of collecting includes seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining items that are of interest to an individual collector.

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Collectors Weekly

Collectors Weekly is an online resource for people interested in antiques, collectibles, and vintage items.

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Crazy Eights

Crazy Eights is a shedding-type card game for two to seven players and the best known American member of the Eights Group which also includes Pig and Spoons.

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Daifugō

or, also known as Tycoon, is a Japanese shedding-type card game for three or more players played with a standard 52-card pack.

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David Parlett

David Parlett (born 18 May 1939 in London) is a games scholar, historian, and translator from South London, who has studied both card games and board games.

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Dou dizhu

Dou dizhu is a card game in the genre of shedding and gambling.

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Euchre

Euchre or eucre is a trick-taking card game commonly played in Australia, Canada, Great Britain, New Zealand, and the Midwestern United States.

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FreeCell

FreeCell is a solitaire card game played using the standard 52-card deck.

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French-suited playing cards

French-suited playing cards or French-suited cards are cards that use the French suits of trèfles (clovers or clubs), carreaux (tiles or diamonds), cœurs (hearts), and piques (pikes or spades).

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German Rummy

German Rummy or Rommé (Deutsches Rommé or Rommé mit Auslegen) is the most popular form of the worldwide game, Rummy, played in Austria and Germany.

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Gin rummy

Gin rummy, or simply gin, is a two-player card game variant of rummy.

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Go Fish

Go Fish or Fish is a card game usually played by two to five players, although it can be played with up to 10 players.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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International Playing-Card Society

The International Playing-Card Society (IPCS) is a non-profit organisation for those interested in playing cards, their design, and their history.

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Italian playing cards

Playing cards (in Italian: carte da gioco) have been in Italy since the late 14th century.

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Jester

A jester, court jester, fool or joker was a member of the household of a nobleman or a monarch employed to entertain guests during royal court.

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Joli Quentin Kansil

Joli Quentin Kansil (born Joel Dennis Gaines January 27, 1943 – March 27, 2023), was a games inventor of 36 card games, word games, board games, and dice games, and the author of five books.

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Jucker (card game)

Jucker, also known as Juckerspiel ("game of Jucker") or Juckern ("playing Jucker"), is a card game that was popular in the Alsace and Palatinate regions on either side of the modern Franco-German border.

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Klondike (solitaire)

Klondike, also known as Canfield, is a card game for one player and the best known and most popular version of the patience or solitaire family, as well as one of the most challenging in widespread play.

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Napoleon at St Helena

Napoleon at St Helena is a 2-deck patience or solitaire card game for one player.

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Old maid (card game)

Old Maid is a 19th-century American card game for two or more players, probably deriving from an ancient European gambling game in which the loser pays for the drinks.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Pagat.com

Pagat.com is a website containing rules to hundreds of card games from all over the world.

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Patience (game)

Patience (Europe), card solitaire or solitaire (US/Canada), is a genre of card games whose common feature is that the aim is to arrange the cards in some systematic order or, in a few cases, to pair them off in order to discard them.

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Pedro (card game)

Pedro is an American trick-taking card game of the all fours family based on auction pitch.

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Pitch (card game)

Pitch (or "high low jack") is an American trick-taking game equivalent to the British blind all fours which, in turn, is derived from the classic all fours (US: seven up).

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Playing card

A playing card is a piece of specially prepared card stock, heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin plastic that is marked with distinguishing motifs. Joker (playing card) and playing card are playing cards.

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Playing cards in Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard for the handling of fonts and symbols. Joker (playing card) and Playing cards in Unicode are playing cards.

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Poker

Poker is a family of comparing card games in which players wager over which hand is best according to that specific game's rules.

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Polish People's Republic

The Polish People's Republic (1952–1989), formerly the Republic of Poland (1947–1952), was a country in Central Europe that existed as the predecessor of the modern-day democratic Republic of Poland.

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Pyramid (solitaire)

Pyramid is a patience or solitaire game of the Simple Addition family, where the object is to get all the cards from the pyramid to the foundation.

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Richard Tarlton

Richard Tarlton (died September 1588) was an English actor of the Elizabethan era.

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Schleswig-Holstein

Schleswig-Holstein (Slesvig-Holsten; Sleswig-Holsteen; Slaswik-Holstiinj; Sleswick-Holsatia) is the northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical Duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig.

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Spades (card game)

Spades is a trick-taking card game devised in the United States in the 1930s.

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Spanish-suited playing cards

Spanish-suited playing cards or Spanish-suited cards have four suits, and a deck is usually made up of 40 or 48 cards (or even 50 by including two jokers).

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Stripped deck

A stripped deck or short deck (US), short pack or shortened pack (UK), is a set of playing cards reduced in size from a full pack or deck by the removal of a certain card or cards. Joker (playing card) and stripped deck are card game terminology.

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Tarot

Tarot (first known as trionfi and later as tarocchi or tarocks) is a pack of playing cards, used from at least the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play card games such as Tarocchini. Joker (playing card) and tarot are playing cards.

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The Fool (tarot card)

The Fool is one of the 78 cards in a tarot deck.

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The Playing-Card

The Playing-Card is a quarterly publication, publishing scholarly articles covering all aspects of playing cards and of the games played with them, produced by the International Playing-Card Society (IPCS). Joker (playing card) and the Playing-Card are playing cards.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joker_(playing_card)

Also known as Big joker, Joker (card), Joker (cards), Joker card, Joker playing card, Jokers in Solitaire, Little joker, Playing Card Joker, .

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