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standard deck playing card games
A "standard" deck of playing cards consists of 52 Cards in each of the 4 suits of Spades, Hearts, Diamonds, and Clubs. Each suit contains 13 cards: Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Jack, Queen, King.
Historically, this is the French or Anglo-American deck. Other nations (e.g. Germany, Italy, Spain) have their own traditional decks which vary in suit and face values.
The suit of Spades:
The suit of Clubs:
A traditional deck of cards usually also includes two Jokers:
There are a multitude of games that can be played with a standard deck of playing cards or a modified deck of playing cards. The games that have an entry on BGG are listed below. For other games an excellent website is Pagat . Traditional Card Games is a placeholder for all games not in the BGG database.
Many of the games on BGG are part of the Traditional Card Games family of games.
Standard Deck
Baccarat - Eight standard decks shuffled together from a Card Shoe
Bezique - Two standard decks with 2's through 6's removed
Blackjack - Eight standard decks shuffled together from a Card Shoe
Bridgette - Standard deck with 3 Colons (Jokers can be used)
Canasta - Two full decks shuffled together with Four Jokers
Durak - Standard deck with the 2's through 5's removed
Écarté - use 7-A of each suit
Euchre - Standard deck with the 2's through 8's removed
500 - Standard deck composition varies depending on number of players. Special 64 Card deck with 11's, 12's and 2 13's also used.