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Shoe (cards) A dealing shoe or dealer's shoe is a gaming device, mainly used in casinos, to hold multiple decks of playing cards. The shoe allows for more games to be played by reducing the time between shuffles and less chance of dealer cheating. [1] In some games, such as blackjack (where card counting is a possibility), using multiple decks ...
Baccarat or baccara (/ ˈ b æ k ə r æ t, b ɑː k ə ˈ r ɑː /; French:) is a card game played at casinos. It is a comparing card game played between two hands, the "player" and the "banker". Each baccarat coup (round of play) has three possible outcomes: "player" (player has the higher score), "banker", and "tie".
The dealer's hand gets its first card face-up and, in "hole card" games, immediately gets a second card face-down (the hole card), which the dealer peeks at but only reveals when it makes the dealer's hand a blackjack. Hole card games are sometimes played on tables with a small mirror or electronic sensor used to peek securely at the hole card.
Spanish 21 is a blackjack variant owned by Masque Publishing Inc., a gaming publishing company based in Colorado. Unlicensed, but equivalent, versions may be called Spanish blackjack. In Australia and Malaysia, an unlicensed version of the game, with no dealer hole card and significant rule differences, is played in casinos under the name ...
Bezique (/ b ə ˈ z iː k /) or bésigue (French:) is a 19th-century French melding and trick-taking card game for two players that came to Britain and is still played today. The game is derived from piquet, [1] possibly via marriage (sixty-six) and briscan, with additional scoring features, notably the peculiar liaison of the Q ♠ and J ♦ that is also a feature of pinochle, Binokel, and ...
These games originally employed a pack of 32 or 52 French cards, the queen of diamonds or jack of spades typically being the odd card and the player who is last in and left holding a single queen or jack becoming the "old maid", " vieux garçon ", or "Black Peter" depending on the game. The term "old maid" predates the game and referred to a ...
Go-Stop ( Korean : 고스톱; RR : Goseutop ), also called Godori ( Korean : 고도리, after the winning move in the game) is a Korean fishing card game played with a Hwatu ( 화투) deck. The game can be called Matgo ( 맞고) when only two players are playing. The game is derived from similar Japanese fishing games such as Hana-awase and ...
Codenames is a 2015 party card game designed by Vlaada Chvátil and published by Czech Games Edition. Two teams compete by each having a "spymaster" give one-word clues that can point to multiple words on the board. The other players on the team attempt to guess their team's words while avoiding the words of the other team.