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Friday, August 13, 2004

This week's Friday Brain-teaser from xrefer tests your knowledge of card games. Answers here:

1. What is the American name for the card game known in England as patience?
2. The game of bridge derived from which other card game?
3. In which card game do the cards represent the members of a tradesman's family?
4. Five-card draw, five-card stud and seven-card stud are popular varieties of which card game?
5. Which card game has a name which is the French for "twenty-one"?
6. Which card game uses a pack from which one card has been removed and players try to avoid holding the unpaired card at the end of the game?
7. In which card game are a player's losses paid by removing an article of clothing?
8. Which card game, resembling baccarat, has a name which is the French for "railway"?
9. Which card game is usually played by four persons and uses a pack of 32 cards, with the jack of trumps (called the right bower) ranking highest?
10. Edmond Hoyle, an authority on card games, wrote "A Short Treatise" on which card game in 1742?

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