10 Facts About Playing card

Playing card is a piece of specially prepared card stock, heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin plastic that is marked with distinguishing motifs.

Some patterns of Tarot playing card are used for divination, although bespoke cards for this use are more common.

Tarot cards are an old genre of playing card that is still very popular in France, central and Eastern Europe and Italy.

The earliest known text containing a possible reference to card games is a 9th-century text known as the Collection of Miscellanea at Duyang, written by Tang dynasty writer Su E It describes Princess Tongchang, daughter of Emperor Yizong of Tang, playing the "leaf game" in 868 with members of the Wei clan, the family of the princess's husband.

In England, the lowest court Playing card was called the "knave" which originally meant male child, so in this context the character could represent the "prince", son to the king and queen; the meaning servant developed later.

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In euchre, the highest trump Playing card is the Jack of the trump suit, called the right bower ; the second-highest trump, the left bower, is the jack of the suit of the same color as trumps.

The name of the Playing card is believed to derive from juker, a variant name for euchre.

Any Playing card that bore the stamp duty like the ace of spades in England, the ace of clubs in France or the ace of coins in Italy are collectible as that is where the manufacturer's logo is usually placed.

Forty-Playing card French suited packs are common in northwest Italy; these remove the 8s through 10s like Latin suited decks.

Cold case Playing card programs have been introduced in over a dozen states, including by Oklahoma's State Bureau of Investigation, Connecticut's Division of Criminal Justice, Delaware's Department of Correction, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, and Rhode Island's Department of Corrections, among others.