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Card Games
Playing card games have been the most fun, inexpensive, international game played by children and adults of all ages, around the world.
Cards are pieces of papers that are flat and flexible with printed images on both sides[1]. Each card has its own identity, different from one another, representing different symbols and values. A deck of 52 cards, contain four different suits; hearts, diamond, spade, and a clover. Each suit has a number from 2 to 10, an ace and three court cards (King, Queen, and a Jack) and now in modern days a 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 standardized deck of cards[2]. The idea of a joker was influenced by a Tarot Fool[3].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[4].
History
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[5]. 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[6].
Card Games
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 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[7].
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[8]. 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[9]. There are a variety of poker style games but all have common rules; 5 cards in a hand, a showdown, 5 standard poker hands that are arranged in a hierarchy[10].
Interesting facts about card games
- 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[11].
- 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[12].
- In the beginning, cards were hand painted and thus were expensive and meant for the wealthiest[13].
- After the cards have been dealt, players absent-mindedly arrange their cards either in a numerical order or by suits or both[14].
References
- ↑ Parlett, David (1990). The Oxford Guide to Card Games. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 15. ISBN 0-19-214165-1.
- ↑ Dummett, Michael (1993). "The history of card games". EuropeanReview. 1 (02): 129. doi:10.1017/S1062798700000478. Retrieved 14 August 2013. Unknown parameter
|month=ignored (help) - ↑ Parlett, David (1990). The Oxford Guide to Card Games. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 34. ISBN 0-19-214165-1.
- ↑ Dummett, Michael (1993). "The history of card games". EuropeanReview. 1 (02): 129. doi:10.1017/S1062798700000478. Retrieved 14 August 2013. Unknown parameter
|month=ignored (help) - ↑ Dummett, Michael (1993). "The history of card games". EuropeanReview. 1 (02): 134. doi:10.1017/S1062798700000478. Retrieved 14 August 2013. Unknown parameter
|month=ignored (help) - ↑ Dummett, Michael (1993). "The history of card games". EuropeanReview. 1 (02): 129. doi:10.1017/S1062798700000478. Retrieved 14 August 2013. Unknown parameter
|month=ignored (help) - ↑ Parlett, David (1990). The Oxford Guide to Card Games. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 17. ISBN 0-19-214165-1.
- ↑ Parlett, David (1990). The Oxford Guide to Card Games. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 105. ISBN 0-19-214165-1.
- ↑ Parlett, David (1990). The Oxford Guide to Card Games. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 105. ISBN 0-19-214165-1.
- ↑ Parlett, David (1990). The Oxford Guide to Card Games. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 106. ISBN 0-19-214165-1.
- ↑ "A Concise History of Playing-Cards". The World of Playing Cards. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
- ↑ "A Concise History of Playing-Cards". The World of Playing Cards. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
- ↑ Parlett, David (1990). The Oxford Guide to Card Games. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 37–38. ISBN 0-19-214165-1.
- ↑ Parlett, David (1990). The Oxford Guide to Card Games. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 33. ISBN 0-19-214165-1.