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Quick Facts
- Playing cards existed in China before 1000 AD.
- European-style playing cards began their evolution 600 years ago.
- Topkapi Museum in Istanbul has an Islamic card deck from before 1500 AD.
- Card games were originally not played by the lower classes in Japan.
- Portuguese introduced popular gambling card games to Japan in 1549.
Expert summary
Card games refer to games played using a deck of cards. Most western card games use an Anglo-American deck of 52 standard cards. This standardized deck is comprised of four suits (diamonds, hearts, spades, and clubs) each with cards numbering from 2 to 10 and including three face cards (jack, queen, and king) and one ace. Card games which use this standardized deck include bridge, poker, blackjack, and war among others. Other popular decks include the 78-card Tarot card deck the 32-card piquet deck and its variations used in Belote and Skat the 48-card hwatu deck used in Korea to play Go Stop and Sutda and the colored playing-card deck used for UNO.
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