Card Ranks
The rank of cards depends on a number of factors. A basic way it is commonly thought of is "red is high, black is low."
- For red (hearts and diamonds) trump cards: 5 of suit, Jack of suit, Ace of Hearts (even if trump suit is diamonds), Joker, Ace of suit (if trump is diamonds, void if trump is Hearts), K, Q, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 4, 3, 2 (all of suit)
- For black (spades and clubs) trump cards: 5 of suit, Jack of suit, Ace of Hearts, Joker, Ace of suit, K, Q, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
- When a non-trump suit is led, a trump suit will always beat it. If no trump card is thrown to beat it, the suit that is led is the only suit that can win the trick. However, the Ace of Hearts and Joker are always considered trump. The orders are as follows:
- Red non-trump: K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, A (Ace only in Diamonds)
- Black non-trump: K, Q, J, A, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
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Famous quotes containing the words card and/or ranks:
“Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose, but women who have been dealt a hand for life and play each card one at a time the best way they know how. No mother is all good or all bad, all laughing or all serious, all loving or all angry. Ambivalence rushes through their veins.”
—Erma Bombeck (20th century)
“A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He consults them instinctively upon awaking and in one second reads in them the point of the earth that he occupies, the time past until his arousal; but their ranks can be mingled or broken.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)