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Playing card
card used as one of a set for playing card games / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Playing cards is the name for the 52 cards used in card games like poker, bridge, blackjack, solitaire and other games.
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by Anna Palm de Rosa, 1885
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There are 52 basic cards in a deck (not including the jokers). These cards have a suit and a number (called the value or rank). There are 4 suits and 13 ranks in each suit. Decks may include a wide variety of regional and national patterns, and different deck sizes. The English pattern of cards is so widespread that it is often also known as the International or Anglo-American pattern.