Bluke 11 cards are dealt on the third hand, and so on until only 1 card is dealt, after which 2 are dealt, then 3, and so on all the way back to 13 (see more about ending the game below). Thus for a standard game of Bluke, a total of 25 hands are dealt. One player needs to be designated as score-keeper and will record bids, tally scores and keep track of how many cards are to be dealt for each hand. Once a hand has been dealt, the remaining cards (2 or more) are passed face down to the
Chinese playing cards China. Cards based on Chinese chess appeared during the nineteenth century. They are generally divided into two categories, those with two suits known as Red or , and those with four suits known as Four Color Cards. Each suit contains cards named after the seven different chessmen. Some decks have multiple copies of each card and may also contain "gold" wild cards. Most games are rummy-like but the two-suited Tam cúc in Vietnam is a multi-trick game. Chinese playing cards Playing cards () were most likely invented in China during the Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279). They were certainly in existence