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.
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Purpose and description
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.
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, German and Swiss-suited decks with suits such as Schippen, 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.
What it is for: Playing games and related uses.
It can be explain patterns and suits; relay history and manufacture; describe games and uses; distinguish related cards.
Distinguishing features
Suit systems
Regional patterns
Standardised sizes
Many uses
What it looks like
Rectangular cards with rounded corners, a patterned back and suit marks on the face.
Physical character
standard deck: 52 cards - plus jokers
poker size: 63.5 x 88.9 mm
tarot deck: 78 cards - French tarot
hanafuda deck: 48 cards
How it is recognised
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
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
is a kind of - in registry terms
is used in - of many kinds
is related to - as a card family
In practice
Families and kinds
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
Standards and regulation
Historical card taxes and duty stamps
Gambling regulation for casino cards
No general standard; industry sizes
Failure modes and hazards
Confusing tarot cards with tarot reading
Mixing regional patterns and games
Marked cards in gambling
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What playing cards are.
Definition.
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.
Attribution.
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.
Practice.
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.
Context.
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
What the second pass must settle
- 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?