United States Playing Card Company brand of cards, introduced in 1885. The typical Bicycle deck is a standard deck of cards consisting of 52 traditional French-suited playing cards, two jokers, an information card, and a card describing poker ranks. As with most decks, the first standard card of the deck is the uniquely stylized ace of spades. The Bicycle trademark is usually also printed on the ace of spades. The type number of a Bicycle deck can be found both on the bottom of the deck box and on the stone of the joker artwork. Bicycle cards have a textured 'air cushion' finish for improved
Trump (card games) Trump (card games) A trump is a playing card which is elevated above its usual rank in trick-taking games. Typically, an entire suit is nominated as a "trump suit"; these cards then outrank all cards of plain (non-trump) suits. In other contexts, the term trump card can refer to any sort of action, authority, or policy which automatically prevails over all others. Contract bridge can be played with any suit as trump, but also includes an option to play without a trump suit. In a version known as Rex Bridge, there are two versions of no-trump, the common one (NT)