Freebase (5.00 / 1 vote) Rate this definition: Pedestal. Pedestal is a term generally applied to the support of a statue or a vase.
Playing card. Playing cards is the name for the 54 cards used card games like poker, bridge, blackjack, and solitaire. There are 52 basic cards in a deck. These cards have a suit and a number (called the value or rank). There are 4 suits and 13 ranks in each suit. There are also two Jokers that do not have a suit or a rank.
Know the objective. A Skip-Bo deck has a total of 144 cards numbered 1 to 12 and 16 skip-bo cards, which are wild. Each player is dealt a pile 10 - 30 cards, depending on the number of players. Each player's pile of cards is called a stockpile. The point of Skip-Bo is to play every card in your stockpile in numerical order.