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| − | Playing card games have been the most fun, inexpensive, international game played by children and adults of all ages, around the world.
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| − | Cards are pieces of papers that are flat and flexible with printed images on both sides<ref>{{cite book|last=Parlett|first=David|title=The Oxford Guide to Card Games|year=1990|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=0-19-214165-1|pages=15}}</ref>. Each card has its own identity, different from one another, representing different symbols and values. A [[Standard_52-card_deck|deck of 52 cards]], contain four different [[Suit_(cards)|suits]]; [[Hearts_(game)|hearts]], diamond, [[Spades|spade]], and a clover. Each suit has a number from 2 to 10, an [[Ace|ace]] and three [[Face_cards|court cards]] ([[King_(playing_card)|King]], [[Queen_(playing_card)|Queen]], and a [[Jack_(playing_card)|Jack]]) and now in modern days a [[Joker_(playing_card)|joker]] is added. In the olden days, a joker was never present in the pack until the cards reached [[America]], where the [[Americans]] invented the [[joker]] around the [[19th century]] and has ever since been added to the [[Standard_52-card_deck|standardized deck of cards]]<ref>{{cite journal|last=Dummett|first=Michael|title=The history of card games|journal=EuropeanReview|year=1993|month=April|volume=1|issue=02|pages=129|doi=10.1017/S1062798700000478|url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=5302136|accessdate=14 August 2013}}</ref>. The idea of a joker was influenced by a Tarot Fool<ref>{{cite book|last=Parlett|first=David|title=The Oxford Guide to Card Games|year=1990|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=0-19-214165-1|pages=34}}</ref>.The designs on the cards are influenced by location and time period. This is because different societies produce different style of cards which are popular in certain eras; it reflects the society<ref>{{cite journal|last=Dummett|first=Michael|title=The history of card games|journal=EuropeanReview|year=1993|month=April|volume=1|issue=02|pages=129|doi=10.1017/S1062798700000478|url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=5302136|accessdate=14 August 2013}}</ref>.
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| − | The origin of cards is still a mystery but there is an assumption of where cards were first produced. It is believed that given that [[China]] was the first to produce paper, then that’s where it was probably originated<ref>{{cite journal|last=Dummett|first=Michael|title=The history of card games|journal=EuropeanReview|year=1993|month=April|volume=1|issue=02|pages=134|doi=10.1017/S1062798700000478|url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=5302136|accessdate=14 August 2013}}</ref>. However, the first society to play with cards and popularize it, were the [[Muslims]], from which it transcended to the [[Europeans]] in the [[fourteen century]] by traveler who visited the [[Muslim countries]]<ref>{{cite journal|last=Dummett|first=Michael|title=The history of card games|journal=EuropeanReview|year=1993|month=April|volume=1|issue=02|pages=129|doi=10.1017/S1062798700000478|url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=5302136|accessdate=14 August 2013}}</ref>.
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| − | Card games have rules that have to be followed, require multiple players and hold mathematical values. In games, players strategize [[arithmetic]] ways to complete the game while others just use luck in order to not lose from their opponents. Every game starts off with [[Shuffle|shuffling]] the deck of cards because it increases a probability of randomness because it makes the game unpredictable and plus it's generally more fair<ref>{{cite book|last=Parlett|first=David|title=The Oxford Guide to Card Games|year=1990|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=0-19-214165-1|pages=17}}</ref>.
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| − | There is countless number of card games in the world, few of the famous card games include [[poker]] and [[go fish]]. [[Poker]] is not a card game since the chips are the main part of the game<ref>{{cite book|last=Parlett|first=David|title=The Oxford Guide to Card Games|year=1990|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=0-19-214165-1|pages=105}}</ref>. Poker is to observe the probability of a good hand and players rate their hand with chips to the pot, and whoever wins gains the chip from the pot<ref>{{cite book|last=Parlett|first=David|title=The Oxford Guide to Card Games|year=1990|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=0-19-214165-1|pages=105}}</ref>. There are a variety of poker style games but all have common rules; 5 cards in a hand, a [[Showdown_(poker)|showdown]], 5 standard poker hands that are arranged in a hierarchy<ref>{{cite book|last=Parlett|first=David|title=The Oxford Guide to Card Games|year=1990|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=0-19-214165-1|pages=106}}</ref>.
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| − | ===Interesting facts about card games===
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| − | * Back in the day, playing cards were banned because of religious concerns. Due to cards, certain behaviours were emerging that was not liked in society, like dishonesty and people started to gamble and cheat<ref>{{cite web|title=A Concise History of Playing-Cards|url=http://www.wopc.co.uk/history/|work=The World of Playing Cards|accessdate=14 August 2013}}</ref>.
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| − | * In addition to the suits of the cards, there were other designs which were first adapted by [[Islamic]] objects like cups, swords, coins and polo stick<ref>{{cite web|title=A Concise History of Playing-Cards|url=http://www.wopc.co.uk/history/|work=The World of Playing Cards|accessdate=14 August 2013}}</ref>.
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| − | * In the beginning, cards were hand painted and thus were expensive and meant for the wealthiest<ref>{{cite book|last=Parlett|first=David|title=The Oxford Guide to Card Games|year=1990|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=0-19-214165-1|pages=37-38}}</ref>.
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| − | * After the cards have been dealt, players [[absent-mindedly]] arrange their cards either in a numerical order or by [[Suit_(cards)|suits]] or both<ref>{{cite book|last=Parlett|first=David|title=The Oxford Guide to Card Games|year=1990|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=0-19-214165-1|pages=33}}</ref>.
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