cards

Noun
  1. A game played with playing cards (synset 100489236)
    associated with:
    • discard - (cards) the act of throwing out a useless card or of failing to follow suit
    • reshuffle, reshuffling - shuffling again
    • deal - the act of distributing playing cards
    • ruff, trumping - (card games) the act of taking a trick with a trump when unable to follow suit
    • trick - (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner
    • shoe - (card games) a case from which playing cards are dealt one at a time
    • trump - (card games) the suit that has been declared to rank above all other suits for the duration of the hand
    • book - a collection of playing cards satisfying the rules of a card game
    • revoke - fail to follow suit when able and required to do so
    • unblock - play the cards of (a suit) so that the last trick on which a hand can follow suit will be taken by a higher card in the hand of a partner who has the remaining cards of a combined holding
    • bluff, bluff out - deceive an opponent by a bold bet on an inferior hand with the result that the opponent withdraws a winning hand
    • ruff, trump - play a trump
    • overtrump - play a trump higher than (one previously played) to the trick
    • crossruff - trump alternately in two hands
    • exit - lose the lead
    • lurch, skunk - defeat by a lurch
    • ante - place one's stake
    • underplay - play a card lower than (a held high card)
    • check - decline to initiate betting
    • pitch - lead (a card) and establish the trump suit
    • cover - play a higher card than the one previously played
    • raise - bet more than the previous player
    • see - match or meet
    • reshuffle - shuffle again
    • riffle - shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix
    • deal - distribute cards to the players in a game
    • deal - give (a specific card) to a player
    • misdeal - deal cards wrongly
    • bid, call - make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands
    • fourhanded - (of card games) involving or requiring four players
    is a type of: game - a contest with rules to determine a winner
    subtypes:
    • all fours, high-low-jack - card games in which points are won for taking the high or low or jack or game
    • baccarat, chemin de fer - a card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker; the player wins who holds 2 or 3 cards that total closest to nine
    • beggar-my-neighbor, beggar-my-neighbour, strip-jack-naked - a card game for two players in which the object is to win all of the other player's cards
    • blackjack, twenty-one, vingt-et-un - a gambling game using cards; the object is to hold cards having a higher count than those dealt to the banker up to but not exceeding 21
    • bridge - any of various card games based on whist for four players
    • casino, cassino - a card game in which cards face up on the table are taken with eligible cards in the hand
    • crib, cribbage - a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two
    • ecarte - a card game for 2 players; played with 32 cards and king high
    • euchre, five hundred - a card game similar to ecarte; each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand
    • fantan, parliament, sevens - a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards
    • faro - a card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box
    • go fish - a card game for two players who try to assemble books of cards by asking the opponent for particular cards
    • four-card monte, monte, three-card monte - a gambling card game of Spanish origin; 3 or 4 cards are dealt face up and players bet that one of them will be matched before the others as the cards are dealt from the pack one at a time
    • boodle, chicago, michigan, newmarket, stops - a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card
    • nap, napoleon - a card game similar to whist; usually played for stakes
    • old maid - a card game using a pack of cards from which one queen has been removed; players match cards and the player holding the unmatched queen at the end of the game is the loser (or `old maid')
    • bezique, penuchle, pinochle, pinocle - a card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist
    • piquet - a card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards
    • pisha paysha - (Yiddish) a card game for two players one of whom is usually a child; the deck is place face down with one card face upward; players draw from the deck alternately hoping to build up or down from the open card; the player with the fewest cards when the deck is exhausted is the winner
    • poker, poker game - any of various card games in which players bet that they hold the highest-ranking hand
    • rouge et noir, trente-et-quarante - a card game in which two rows of cards are dealt and players can bet on the color of the cards or on which row will have a count nearer some number
    • rum, rummy - a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards
    • patience, solitaire - a card game played by one person
    • long whist, short whist, whist - a card game for four players who form two partnerships; a pack of 52 cards is dealt and each side scores one point for each trick it takes in excess of six
    has:
    • discard - (cards) the act of throwing out a useless card or of failing to follow suit
    • make, shuffle, shuffling - the act of mixing cards haphazardly
    • cut, cutting - the division of a deck of cards before dealing
    • double, doubling - raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2
    • deal - the act of distributing playing cards
    • lead - the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge
    • renege, revoke - the mistake of not following suit when able to do so
    • call - a demand for a show of hands in a card game
    same as: card game

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