A wild card in card games is one that may be used to represent any other playing card,sometimes with certain restrictions. Jokers are often used as wild cards,but other cards may be designated as wild by the rules or by agreement. In addition to their use in card games played with a standard pack,wild cards may also exist in dedicated deck card games,such as the 'Master' card in Lexicon.
A stripped deck or short deck (US),short pack or shortened pack (UK),is a set of playing cards reduced in size from a full pack or deck by the removal of a certain card or cards. The removed cards are usually pip cards,but can also be court cards or Tarot cards. Many card games use stripped decks,and stripped decks for popular games are commercially available.
Pai gow poker is a version of pai gow that is played with playing cards,instead of traditional pai gow's Chinese dominoes. The game of pai gow poker was created in 1985 in the United States by Sam Torosian,owner of the Bell Card Club.
Tien Gow or Tin Kau is the name of Chinese gambling games played with either a pair of dice or a set of 32 Chinese dominoes. In these games,Heaven is the top rank of the civil suit,while Nine is the top rank of the military suit. The civil suit was originally called the Chinese (華) suit while the military suit was called the barbarian (夷) suit but this was changed during the Qing dynasty to avoid offending the ruling Manchus. The highly idiosyncratic and culture-specific suit-system of these games is likely the conceptual origin of suits,an idea that later is used for playing cards. Play is counter-clockwise.
500 or Five Hundred is a trick-taking game developed in the United States from Euchre. Euchre was extended to a 10 card game with bidding and a Misère contract similar to Russian Preference,producing a cutthroat three-player game like Preference and a four-player game played in partnerships like Whist which is the most popular modern form,although with special packs it can be played by up to six players.
Lowball or low poker is a variant of poker in which the normal ranking of hands is inverted. Several variations of lowball poker exist,differing in whether aces are treated as high cards or low cards,and whether straights and flushes are used.
Video poker is a casino game based on five-card draw poker. It is played on a computerized console similar in size to a slot machine.
Cribbage,or crib,is a card game,traditionally for two players,that involves playing and grouping cards in combinations which gain points. It can be adapted for three or four players.
Big two is a card game of Cantonese origin. The game is popular in East Asia and in Southeast Asia,especially throughout mainland China,Hong Kong,Vietnam,Macau,Taiwan,Indonesia,the Philippines,Malaysia and Singapore. It is played both casually and as a gambling game. It is usually played with two to four players. The objective of the game is to be the first to play off all of one's cards.
Non-standard poker hands are hands which are not recognized by official poker rules but are made by house rules. Non-standard hands usually appear in games using wild cards or bugs. Other terms for nonstandard hands are special hands or freak hands. Because the hands are defined by house rules,the composition and ranking of these hands is subject to variation. Any player participating in a game with non-standard hands should be sure to determine the exact rules of the game before play begins.
Sheng ji is a family of point-based,trick-taking card games played in China and in Chinese immigrant communities. They have a dynamic trump,i.e.,which cards are trump changes every round. As these games are played over a wide area with no standardization,rules vary widely from region to region.
Tichu is a proprietary card game primarily classified as a shedding game that includes elements of Bridge,Daihinmin,and Poker played between two teams of two players each. Teams work to accumulate points,and the first team to reach a predetermined score is the winner. Tichu is the trade name for what appears to be a variant of Dou di zhu,Choi Dai Di (Cantonese) or Da Lao Er (Mandarin),meaning "big two",combined with Zheng Fen. It is also marketed as Tai-Pan in Dutch. Tichu was invented by Urs Hostettler and originally released in 1991.
Daifugō or Daihinmin,also known as Tycoon,is a Japanese shedding-type card game for three or more players played with a standard 52-card pack. The objective of the game is to get rid of all the cards one has as fast as possible by playing progressively stronger cards than those of the previous player. The winner is called the daifugō earning various advantages in the next round,and the last person is called the daihinmin. In that following round,winners can exchange their one or more unnecessary cards for advantageous ones that losers have.
Zheng Shangyou is a Chinese shedding card game similar to President and Big Two. It is the game from which Tien Len and other similar games are derived. It is popular in Shanghai,Zhejiang and Jiangsu.
Dou dizhu is a card game in the genre of shedding and gambling. It is one of the most popular card games played in China.
The rules here are based on those of the American Cribbage Congress and apply to two-,three- or four-player games,with details of variations being listed below.
The following is a glossary of poker terms used in the card game of poker. It supplements the glossary of card game terms. Besides the terms listed here,there are thousands of common and uncommon poker slang terms. This is not intended to be a formal dictionary;precise usage details and multiple closely related senses are omitted here in favor of concise treatment of the basics.
Stud poker is any of a number of poker variants in which each player receives a mix of face-down and face-up cards dealt in multiple betting rounds. Stud games are also typically non-positional games,meaning that the player who bets first on each round may change from round to round. The cards dealt face down to each individual player are called hole cards,which gave rise to the common English expression ace in the hole for any hidden advantage.
Draw poker is any poker variant in which each player is dealt a complete hand before the first betting round,and then develops the hand for later rounds by replacing,or "drawing",cards.
Wild escape,also known as daguai luzi or the joker's way is a card game originating in Shanghai,China. It is a team game for 6 players and played with three decks of cards.
