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Playing cards are specially prepared cards used primarily for games, magic tricks, and cardistry, typically sold in sets known as decks. The most common type is the French-suited 52-card pack, but various traditional types exist worldwide, including Tarot cards and regional variants from Asia. Playing cards can also be customized for specific uses, collected as a hobby, or produced for promotional and artistic purposes.

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Playing Card - Wikipedia

Playing cards are specially prepared cards used primarily for games, magic tricks, and cardistry, typically sold in sets known as decks. The most common type is the French-suited 52-card pack, but various traditional types exist worldwide, including Tarot cards and regional variants from Asia. Playing cards can also be customized for specific uses, collected as a hobby, or produced for promotional and artistic purposes.

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Playing card
A 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. Often the front (face) and back of
each card has a finish to make handling easier. They are
most commonly used for playing card games, and are also
used in magic tricks, cardistry,[1][2] card throwing,[3] and
card houses; cards may also be collected.[4] Playing cards
are typically palm-sized for convenient handling, and
usually are sold together in a set as a deck of cards or
Hand of French-suited cards
pack of cards.

The most common type of playing card in the West is the


French-suited, standard 52-card pack, of which the most
widespread design is the English pattern,[a] followed by the
Belgian-Genoese pattern.[5] However, many countries use
other, traditional types of playing card, including those
that are German, Italian, Spanish and Swiss-suited. Tarot
cards (also known locally as Tarocks or tarocchi) are an
old genre of playing card that is still very popular in
France, central and Eastern Europe and Italy. Customised
Tarot card decks are also used for divination; including Tarot playing cards from Austria
tarot card reading and cartomancy.[6] Asia, too, has
regional cards such as the Japanese hanafuda, Chinese
money-suited cards, or Indian ganjifa. The reverse side of
the card is often covered with a pattern that will make it
difficult for players to look through the translucent
material to read other people's cards or to identify cards by
minor scratches or marks on their backs.

Playing cards are available in a wide variety of styles, as


decks may be custom-produced for competitions,
casinos[7] and magicians[8] (sometimes in the form of trick Suit of Bells from a Bavarian pack
decks),[9] made as promotional items,[10] or intended as
souvenirs,[11][12] artistic works, educational tools,[13][14][15]
or branded accessories.[16] Decks of cards or even single cards are also collected as a hobby or for
monetary value.[17][18]

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