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Alternation (card game). Card

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the July 31st, 2007

Alternation is a solitaire card game which is played using two decks of playing cards. Its tableau (or playing area) is similar to that of another solitaire game, Stonewall.

Forty-nine cards are set up into seven columns of seven cards each. In each column, the top card, the third and fifth cards from the top and the bottom card are face up. The second, fourth, and sixth cards from the top are face down. This results in an alternating OXOXOXO pattern.

The object of the game is to release the Aces as they become available, creating foundations, and to then build up each suit from the Ace.

The top cards of each column are available for play, to be built up by suit on the foundations, or on each other down by alternating colors. A sequence or part of a sequence can be moved as a unit.

When no more cards can be moved, the stock (the remaining cards) is dealt one card at a time. A card that cannot be built on the tableau or on the foundations is placed on the waste pile, the top card of which is available for play.

The game is won when all cards are built onto the foundations. If this is not achieved, the game ends after the entire stock has run out. There is no redeal.

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Mount Olympus (solitaire). cards

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the July 31st, 2007

Mount Olympus is a solitaire card game using two decks of 52 playing cards each. It is probably named because of the tableau’s mountain shape and shows all the Kings and Queens in the end, if won successfully, like the Greek gods and goddesses who are said to be residing on the mountain with the same name.

First, all aces and deuces, or twos (16 cards in all), are removed from the two decks. Then the remaining 88 cards are shuffled and nine of them are laid out on the tableau in an inverted “V” formation. Although this is one of the two bases mentioned above that gives the game its name, the player can opt to just lay the nine cards in a straight line. These nine cards start each of the nine piles in the tableau.

Building on the 16 foundations is up by suit in intervals of two. Therefore, building should be like this:
On the aces: 3-5-7-9-J-K
On the deuces: 4-6-8-10-Q

Building on the tableau is down, also by suit in intervals of two (i.e. the 5♠ must be placed over the 7♠). A card can be placed over an applicable card and any gap must be filled immediately with a card from the stock. A sequence of cards (such as 6-8-10♣) can be moved as one unit. Any card can be placed on the foundation at any appropriate time.

Once all possible moves have been made or the player has done all moves he wanted to make, a new set of nine cards are dealt, one for each pile. Moving, filling gaps with new cards, and dealing a new set of nine cards continue until the stock has been used up. After this has happened, building continues, but spaces left behind are not filled.

The game is successfully won when all cards are built with the Kings and Queens at front.

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My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean. the back

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the July 31st, 2007

“My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean” is a traditional Scottish folk song. It may have its origin in the history of Charles Edward Stuart, commonly known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, the grandson of the deposed Stuart monarch James II. Many Highland Scots supported Bonnie Prince Charlie’s attempt to restore the Stuarts to the English throne in 1745-46 by invading Scotland and England.

The song was famously arranged and recorded by Tony Sheridan with musical backing by The Beatles (who at the time were a little-known beat combo, and were originally credited as the ‘Beat Brothers’). It has numerous parody versions. For more information on these parody versions, see “My Bonnie Has Tuberculosis”. The first two notes of this song are a Major 6th interval.

The lyrics are as follows:

My Bonnie lies over the ocean
My Bonnie lies over the sea
My Bonnie lies over the ocean
Oh bring back my Bonnie to me
Bring back, bring back
Bring back my Bonnie to me, to me
Bring back, bring back
Bring back my Bonnie to me
Last night as I lay on my pillow
Last night as I lay on my bed
Last night as I lay on my pillow
I dreamed that my Bonnie was dead
Bring back, bring back
Bring back my Bonnie to me, to me
Bring back, bring back
Bring back my Bonnie to me
Oh blow ye the winds o’er the ocean
And blow ye the winds o’er the sea
Oh blow ye the winds o’er the ocean
And bring back my Bonnie to me
Bring back, bring back
Bring back my Bonnie to me, to me
Bring back, bring back
Bring back my Bonnie to me
The winds have blown over the ocean
The winds have blown over the sea
The winds have blown over the ocean
And brought back my Bonnie to me
Bring back, bring back
Bring back my Bonnie to me, to me
Bring back, bring back
Bring back my Bonnie to me


Pop-Culture References

  • The lyrics of the chorus are used in the song Bonnie Taylor Shakedown… 2K1 and Bonnie Taylor Shakedown… 2K4 by hellogoodbye.
  • This song is played by the band in the film Late Summer Blues.
  • The character Mary Lamblen sings this song in the 2003 film Pride and Prejudice: A Latter-Day Comedy.
  • Some members of The Beatles recorded a rock-and-rollish version of this song in their early days, before they were fully formed as a group.
  • This song is performed by the Singing Bush in the film The Three Amigos.
  • The first verse and chorus are sung by Zooey Deschanel’s character in the film Winter Passing.
  • Ray Charles performed a soul version of the song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR3LhX6oE3s&feature=PlayList&p=396640AFA2F4384A&index=6).
  • On an episode of the popular late ’60’s situation comedy Family Affair, the twins, Buffy (Anissa Jones) and Jody (Johnny Whitaker), both do renditions of this song. Buffy has a hard time with the song (though she tries) and is quite off-key, but Jody has an easier time with it and sings it in tune.
  • My Bunny Lies Over The Sea a Bugs Bunny episode, 1948

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Out of This World (card trick). cards

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the July 30th, 2007

Out of This World is a famous card trick created by magician Paul Curry in 1942. Hundreds of other magic performers have performed their own variations of this trick. It is often billed as “the trick that fooled Winston Churchill.” The method, though simple and essentially self-working, is well hidden, and can be enhanced by the presentation of the performer or the use of other principles of magic.


Effect

  1. The performer takes a deck of cards, and places on the table two face-up “marker” cards, one black and one red; the black on the left and the red on the right. The performer tells the subject that he or she is going to deal cards face-down from the deck and the object of the exercise is for the subject to use the power of their mind to identify whether each card in the deck is black or red.
  2. The performer takes one card at a time from the deck, face down, and asks the subject to attempt to divine whether it is black or red. The subject states their choice, and the performer then places the card in line with the appropriately coloured marker card, overlapping it at the bottom.
  3. About halfway through the deck, the performer stops and announces that it is necessary to switch sides, in order to prevent a possible preference for one side over another from confusing the results. The performer deals two new marker cards onto the existing lines: a red one on the left, and a black one on the right.
  4. The performer then continues as before, dealing cards face-down from the deck onto the subject’s choice of the black or red line.
  5. When the deck is exhausted, the performer instructs the subject to gather up and somehow reveal the left-hand line of cards; the performer does the same for the right-hand line.
  6. The exposed lines reveal that every one of the subject’s guesses was correct, and the black and red cards have been exactly sorted by colour.


Method

The principle is very simple: the deck used by the magician is stacked, with all the black cards at the top and all the red cards at the bottom.

In the first round of dealing face-down cards, all of the cards dealt will be black. The switching of sides occurs at the halfway point through the deck because that is the point at which the black cards will be exhausted and the red cards will begin to be dealt.

To understand why this enables the trick to work, think about what will be in the two lines of cards at the end of the trick. The left-hand line will begin with the black marker card (placed at the start), followed by the face-down black cards from the top of the deck, then the red marker card (placed at the side switch), then the face-down red cards from the bottom of the deck. That’s (black marker) (black cards) (red marker) (red cards). In other words, this line is exactly right, and is given to the subject to gather up.

The right-hand line will begin with the red marker card (placed at the start), followed by the face-down black cards from the top of the deck, then the black marker card (placed at the side switch), then the face-down red cards from the bottom of the deck. That’s (red marker) (black cards) (black marker) (red cards). Although incorrect, it should be apparent that this can be instantly made to appear correct by moving the red marker card from one end of the line to the other, or by reversing the order of all other cards in the line. This must be performed by the magician during the act of gathering up the right-hand line of cards, while the subject is distracted by gathering up their own line. Since the cards are gathered into a stack at that point, this is trivially easy.

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Anaconda (poker). cards

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the July 29th, 2007

Anaconda is a variety of the card game poker, also called “Pass The Trash Poker.”


Simple Play

This version of the game is also called “3-2-1 Anaconda” or “3-2-1 Left.”

Each player is dealt 6 cards. They then each select 3 cards to be passed to the player on their left. These cards are simply set on the table near their left-most opponent. No players get to see their new 3 cards until everyone has made a pass. Afterward, the players repeat the process, only with 2 cards, then again with 1 card. Players then discard 1 card to make their best 5-card Poker hand.

In this version of the game, up to 8 people can play, passing out a total of 48 cards and having 4 left over. A 9th person can be added with the use of both Jokers as Wild cards.


Betting

Betting can be included in the simple version of the game. Set up general Poker staples such as the dealer button, blinds, and/or antes. Have a round of betting occur before the first pass of 3 cards, then again after every card pass is made, and ending with a showdown if necessary. If a player folds at anytime, then they are no longer involved in card passing.


Variations

Anaconda can be changed in many possible ways, such as:

  • Altering the amount of starting cards (7 cards is common).
  • Altering the amount of cards passed.
  • Altering who the cards are passed to, possibly per round.
  • Incorporating Joker cards.
  • Including only one betting round & showdown after all passing rounds.
  • Removing all betting rounds and playing without money/chips.


References

  • Anaconda at casinocity.com

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Gargantua (solitaire). cards

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the July 29th, 2007

Gargantua is a solitaire card game that is basically a version of Klondike using two decks.

Instead of seven in Klondike, there are nine columns to be formed. Forming these nine columns of cards, i.e. dealing the cards, is like much like Klondike. One face-up card is placed on the first column, then eight cards are each placed face-down on the other eight columns. Over these eight face-down cards are one face-up card and seven face-down cards, and so on until all nine columns have a face-up card. The rest of the deck becomes the pile. The piles should look like this: 

      O   O   O   O   O   O   O   O

 +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+
 | | +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+
 +-+ | | +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+
     +-+ | | +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+
         +-+ | | +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+
             +-+ | | +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+
                 +-+ | | +-+ +-+ +-+
                     +-+ | | +-+ +-+
                         +-+ | | +-+
                             +-+ | |
                                 +-+

As in Klondike, play consists of the following:

  • The eight foundations, represented by the Os in the diagram, are built up in suits starting from the ace.
  • Tableau piles and cards are built down by alternating colors in partial or complete piles.
  • Face-down cards are immediately turned up when they become the top cards of their piles.
  • Empty spaces can be filled only by Kings or piles with Kings as bottom cards.

As for dealing the stock, cards from it are dealt to the waste pile one at a time and used if possible. The stock can only be dealt twice; afterwards the leftover cards are left at the waste pile. Also note that if you do go through the stock twice you will almost always win, so for a little more challenge just go through it once.

The game is won if all cards are transferred to the foundations.

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Crazy Quilt (solitaire). cards are smaller

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the July 29th, 2007

Crazy Quilt (also known as Indian Carpet and Japanese Rug) is a solitaire card game using two decks of 52 playing cards each. The game is so-called because the reserve resembles the weaves of a carpet or an arrangement of a quilt. The arrangement of the cards on the reserve is also the reason it is rarely seen on computer solitaire packages, most of which have their cards placed vertically.

First, one Ace and one King of each suit are taken out to form the foundations. The rest of the cards are shuffled, and 64 cards are dealt into eight rows of eight cards each. The first row should have its first card placed vertically, the second placed horizontally, the third vertically, the fourth horizontally, and so on. The second row should have its first card placed horizontally, its second one vertically and so on. To make this description short, the resulting layout should resemble a chessboard; the cards placed on one direction (vertically or horizontally) represent the darker squares and the cards placed on the other direction symbolize the lighter squares. This reserve is called the “quilt.”

The cards on the quilt with their shorter sides exposed, i.e. cards each with one of its shorter sides not touching another card, are available for play to the foundations or the top of the wastepile. The foundations that start with the Aces are built up by suit while those that start with the Kings are built down also by suit.

The stock is dealt one at a time onto the wastepile. The top card of the wastepile can be used to build on the foundations and be built up or down by suit using cards from the quilt.

Once the stock runs out, the wastepile (which includes cards acquired from the quilt) is gathered and turned faced down without shuffling to be used as the new stock. This can be done only once in the entire game.

The game is won when all cards, both from the quilt and the wastepile, end up in the foundations.

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Universal Waite tarot deck. deck

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the July 28th, 2007

The Universal Waite tarot deck is based on original line drawings for the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck by Pamela Colman Smith. It is not known whether the flat, slightly garish colours used in the standard Rider-Waite were Smith’s idea or her publisher’s, especially since the Original Rider-Waite Tarot, a facsimile edition of the deck as it first appeared in 1907, shows slightly deeper, richer colours.

By popular demand, illustrator Mary Hanson-Roberts, creator of the Hanson-Roberts Tarot, was commissioned to produce a more subtly and attractively coloured rendition of the Rider-Waite-Smith deck. The Universal deck first appeared in the early 1990s. It comes in a standard large size and a minuscule travel edition in a keyring case.

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Jim Mora. that the backs

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the July 28th, 2007

Jim Mora is the name of:

  • Jim E. Mora, former Head Coach of the NFL’s New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts, and the USFL’s Philadelphia/Baltimore Stars
  • Jim L. Mora, son of the above, former Head Coach of the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons and current defensive backs/assistant coach for the Seattle Seahawks
  • Jim Mora (broadcaster), a New Zealand television and radio presenter

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Fluorescent multilayer card. Card

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the July 27th, 2007

Using the same 3D optical data storage technology as the fluorescent multilayer disc, the fluorescent multilayer card is a card containing a square shaped clear part which has multiple layers each with a different fluorescent material that reflects light at a different frequency from the other layers, so that the number of layers is limited only by the thickness of the card. Because of this, a card with the data area roughly 25 mm or one inch wide should be able to hold 10 GB of data.

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Strategy (game). cards

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the July 27th, 2007

Strategy is a solitaire card game which uses a deck of 52 playing cards. It belongs to the same family as Sir Tommy and Calculation, and this can be regarded as the more difficult cousin of Sir Tommy.

The cards in the deck are dealt one at a time. Aces, whenever they appear, are placed onto the foundations and are built up by suit. Cards that cannot yet be built are placed on any one of eight wastepiles, the top cards of which are available for play. Once a card is placed on a wastepile, the next place it will go is to foundations; it cannot be moved to another wastepile.

The game finishes after all cards are dealt to the wastepiles and all appropriate cards are built. The game is won when all cards end up in the foundations.

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Flitch. smaller

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the July 25th, 2007

Flitch can refer to the following things:

  • A flitch of wood for resawing into smaller pieces
  • A side of unsliced bacon

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Little Spider. playing cards

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the July 24th, 2007

Little Spider is a solitaire card game using a deck of 52 playing cards. Because of its form of game play and dealing, it should not be confused with two other solitaire games: Spider and its one-deck cousin Spiderette.

Game play is composed of two parts. At first, eight cards are dealt into two rows of four cards each, with a space in the middle for the four foundations.

At the first part of game play, two aces of one color and two kings of the other should be found and transferred to the foundations. When at least one of them is available, it is built immediately; the kings are built down to ace while the aces are built up to kings, in both cases by suit. Game play in this part is composed strictly of moving cards from the two rows to the foundations. Cards from the upper row can be placed on any of the foundations, while cards from the lower row can only be placed on the foundations directly on top of it. Once possible plays are made, eight new cards are dealt from the stock, one on each pile, empty or otherwise. Once the entire stock is dealt, the second part of game play begins.

At the second part of game play, cards from both rows can be placed on the foundations as well as around the piles at both rows, building either up or down regardless of suit at the piles. Building is also continuous as a king can be placed over an ace and vice versa.

The game is won when all cards made their way to the foundations.


External links

  • Little Spider rules

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Royal Marriage. cards

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the July 24th, 2007

Royal Marriage is a solitaire card game using a deck of 52 playing cards.

The game is so called because the player seems to remove anything that comes between the Queen and the King of the same suit for them to “marry.” Although the King and the Queen may be of any suit, commonly it is the King and Queen of Hearts that are being “wed.” For this same object, this game is also called Betrothal.

The Queen of the suit chosen (most commonly the Queen of Hearts) is placed immediately on the table while her corresponding King (in this case, the King of Hearts) will always be dealt last. The remaining fifty cards are shuffled and placed on the top of the King.

Cards are dealt one at a time to the right of the Queen. When a pair of cards with the same rank or suit are found to be separated by one or two cards, those in-between cards are discarded. Afterwards, the player can look for any resulting pairs with in-between cards to be discarded.

The game is won when Queen and the King are brought together with all other cards discarded.

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Martin Aspinwall. that the backs have

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the July 24th, 2007

Martin Aspinwall (b. October 21, 1981) is an English rugby league player. He plays on the wing for the Huddersfield Giants. He is 175cm (5′ 9″ inches) in height and weighs 85 kg (187 pounds).

Aspinwall started his career with the Wigan Warriors, where he was promoted to first team in 2001 and made six substitute appearances. The 2002 Super League season proved to be a break-through year for him, as several injuries in the backs left the way open for him to establish himself in the first team. He played in at centre and wing in during Wigan’s league run-in and during the playoff series. Before the St Helens Final Elimination clash, Martin commented, “My goal at the beginning of the season was to get eight to ten games, maybe come off the bench, but because of the injury crisis that we’ve had, especially in the backs, I’ve found myself in the Semis now and one game away from a Grand Final.”

Coach Stuart Raper played Aspinwall alongside several other up and coming youngsters during the 2002 season. “It’s quite exciting for me to be able to play these guys,” said Raper. “The Aspinwalls and Briscoes are chomping at the bit to get on that paddock. Martin continued his good form for the club and, in July of 2003, signed a new two-year contract with the club, turning down strong interest from Warrington.

Martin was selected for the England A squad to face New Zealand at Brentford in November 2002 but had to withdraw due to a viral illness. He was later named in the 2003 England A squad to face Australia and in the European Nations Cup. Martin was picked to represent Lancashire in the 2003 Origin match.

Martin became a first team regular in the next two years, but was never able to capture the sort of form that would guarantee his future at the Warriors. At the end of his contract, which ran out in October 2005, and following the acquisition of backs Mark Calderwood and Pat Richards, Wigan allowed Martin to become a free-agent. He had made 107 competitive appearances for Wigan, scoring 24 tries. He quickly signed for Super League rivals Huddersfield Giants, joining ex-Wigan colleague Stephen Wild.

In October 2006, Martin was named in the 25-man Great Britain Tri-Nations squad to tour Australia and New Zealand.


External links

  • Picture
  • Huddersfield Giants

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Face card. cards

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the July 24th, 2007

Face Cards
(in decreasing order per suit)
hearts spades clubs diamonds
K | Q | J ♠K | ♠Q | ♠J ♣K | ♣Q | ♣J K | Q | J

In a deck of playing cards, the term face card is generally used to describe a card that depicts a person. Cards depicting persons were developed in Europe, possibly in the late 1300s; it is believed that earlier sets of cards included “court cards” that showed abstract designs, and not persons.

Europeans changed the court cards to represent European royalty and attendants, thereby forming the original face cards: king, chevalier, and knave (or servant).

A deck of modern (Anglo-American) playing cards has the following face cards:

  • Jack
  • Queen
  • King

A deck of Italian playing cards has the following face cards (which are worth 10, 9 and 8 respectively, as there are only 10 cards per suit):

  • King - a man standing, wearing a crown
  • Knight/Horseman/Cavaliere - a man sitting on a horse
  • Dame/Donna - a younger woman standing, without a crown

Significance of cards being face cards (versus a “regular”, “rank” or “numbered” card) varies depending on the particular game being played. Typically they are considered as part of a sequence to be higher than the 10, but often lower than the ace. Many games that ascribe value, or ‘points’ to a face card would make all face cards equal to the 10.

While modern decks of playing cards may contain a Joker (or two) depicting a person (such as a jester or clown), jokers are not normally considered as face cards, although some specific card games may treat them as such.

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Old Government House, Queensland. US government

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the July 24th, 2007

Completed in 1862, the first Government House is located within the grounds of the Queensland University of Technology Gardens Point campus, in Brisbane.

The government residential building was constructed to accommodate the first Governor of Queensland, Sir George Bowen, and the building continued to be used by the State Governors until the construction of Government House, Queensland, at its present location at the Brisbane suburb of Bardon, in Queensland, Australia.

Old Government House, which has been the Queensland headquarters for the National Trust of Australia, is a Queensland Heritage listed building. Concerts have also been held in the building.


See also

  • Government House for information about Government House at Bardon, Queensland.
  • Government Houses of Australia
  • Government Houses of the British Empire
  • Governors of Queensland


External links

  • Government House, Queensland - Official Website - includes information about Brisbane’s first Government House

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Meld (cards). cards

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the July 23rd, 2007

In card games, a meld is set of matching cards, typically three or more, that earn a player points and/or allow him to deplete his hand. Melds typically come in sequences of ascending cards belonging to the same suit (8♠ 9♠ 10♠) or groups of cards of identical rank (8♠ 8♣ 8♥).

Melding is typical in games of the Rummy family, such as Canasta and Gin. Melds are also made in some trick-taking games, such as Pinochle and Bezique.

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