While playing cards were invented in China, Chinese playing cards do not have a concept of court cards, though two entire suits featured faces for a period of time when Water Margin cards [zh] were …

Open-face Chinese poker, OFCP, commonly known as Open Face Chinese or OFC, is a variant of Chinese poker where players receive five cards to start and then one card at a time until each player …

Chinese playing cards Ladies of a Mandarin's family playing a game of cards. Drawing by Thomas Allom (1843). Playing cards (simplified Chinese: 纸牌; traditional Chinese: 紙牌; pinyin: zhǐpái) were most …

Chinese poker is a card game based on poker hand rankings. It is intended as a beginner-friendly game, with only a basic knowledge of poker hand rankings needed to get started. The format allows for …

2-7-10 (simplified Chinese: 二七十; traditional Chinese: 貳柒拾; pinyin: Èr Qī Shí) is the standard game played with these cards. It is a draw-and-discard type game like Mahjong and Rummy. Usually there …

Tarot playing cards from Austria Suit of Bells from a Bavarian pack A playing card is a piece of specially prepared card stock, heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin …

Madiao (simplified Chinese: 马吊; traditional Chinese: 馬弔; pinyin: mǎdiào), also ma diao, ma tiu or ma tiao, [1] is a late imperial Chinese trick-taking gambling card game, [2] also known as the game of …

Pai gow poker (also called double-hand poker) is a version of pai gow that is played with French-suited playing cards rather than Chinese dominoes. The game of pai gow poker was created in 1985 in the …