playing card
Let an agent explain playing cards and their patterns, relay history, suits and manufacture from card history sources, describe games and other uses, and distinguish playing cards from tarot reading, trading cards and game-specific cards.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What playing cards are.
Definition
Definition and patterns.
Definition
Definition.
- What are playing cards, and how do French, German, Swiss, Latin and tarot patterns differ? definition
- Is the question about playing cards, tarot reading, trading cards or a game-specific card? boundary
Anatomy
Anatomy of a card.
Anatomy
Anatomy.
- What are suits, ranks, indices, court cards, oudlers and backs? definition
- Which entry fits the specific element? action
History History.
Origins
Origins.
Origins
Origins.
- How did playing cards spread from China and the Islamic world to Europe, as historians describe? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Patterns
Regional patterns.
Patterns
Patterns.
- How did regional patterns and hanafuda develop? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific pattern? action
Use Games and uses.
Games
Games.
Games
Games.
- What games are played with each deck type? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific game? action
Other
Other uses.
Other
Other.
- How are cards used in magic, cardistry, divination and collecting? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Context Manufacture and culture.
Manufacture
Manufacture.
Manufacture
Manufacture.
- How are cards made, and who are the major manufacturers? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific manufacturer? action
Culture
Culture.
Culture
Culture.
- How do cards appear in art, literature and symbolism? provenance
- Which entry fits card symbolism? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.OBJ
- Other names and narrower kinds
- French playing cards, Monopoly card, tarot card, oudler, Schippen, hanafuda card, German-suited playing cards, spot card, Ganjifa, Lenormand Card, Ganjapa, four-color deck
What it is Filled
A piece of specially prepared card stock, plastic or paper bearing marks and used as one of a set for playing games, in packs such as the 52-card French-suited deck, in which Schippen denotes spades, German and Swiss-suited decks, Italian and Spanish decks, tarot decks with trumps and the oudlers of French tarot, Japanese hanafuda cards, and game-specific cards such as those in Monopoly or collectible card games; playing cards are also used for divination, magic and collecting.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain playing cards and their patterns, relay history, suits and manufacture from card history sources, describe games and other uses, and distinguish playing cards from tarot reading, trading cards and game-specific cards.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Suit systems
- Regional patterns
- Standardised sizes
- Many uses
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Help mark cards, cheat or collude in card games played for money.
- Present tarot or cartomancy readings as reliable predictions of a person's future.
- Encourage gambling by minors or by people who have asked to be stopped.
Only with a human decision
- Running or dealing a card game with real stakes.
May
- Identify card decks, suits and regional patterns.
- Explain the rules of card games and keep score for players who ask.
Moral aspects Filled
- Card games for money can feed gambling harm.
- Fortune telling with cards can exploit people in distress.
Who is affected
- Players
- People with gambling problems
- Card collectors
Owners Filled
Steward
The person who owns the deck; gambling regulators license games with stakes.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q1261026 - registry parent class
- Q17638008 - registry parent class
- Q29024343 - registry parent class
related
- game equipment - in registry terms
- printed matter - in registry terms
- card game - of many kinds
- tarot - as a card family
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.playing-card
- Wikidata: Q47883 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47883)
Direct properties required Filled
- standard deck: 52 cards - plus jokers
- poker size: 63.5 x 88.9 mm
- tarot deck: 78 cards - French tarot
- hanafuda deck: 48 cards
Recognition required Filled
- Card from a game deck
- French, German, Swiss, Italian and Spanish suited cards, tarot cards, hanafuda, game-specific cards
- Trading cards are collectibles; tarot reading uses tarot decks for divination
- Rectangular cards with rounded corners, a patterned back and suit marks on the face.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain patterns and suits
- relay history and manufacture
- describe games and uses
- distinguish related cards
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Confusing tarot cards with tarot reading
- Mixing regional patterns and games
- Marked cards in gambling
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Historical card taxes and duty stamps
- Gambling regulation for casino cards
- No general standard; industry sizes
Context of use required Filled
- Playing games and related uses.
- French-suited cards with hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades
- German and Swiss-suited cards with hearts, bells, acorns and leaves or shields
- Latin-suited Italian and Spanish cards
- tarot cards including French tarot with oudlers
- hanafuda and other East Asian cards
- game-specific cards such as Monopoly cards and collectible card games
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q47883: playing card - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Playing card - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should tarot cards and hanafuda be separate primary entries?
- How should card history sources be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming patterns and game-specific cards; should they be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q47883/spec.json