Trionfi (cards) which offers details about the deck and a cursory explanation of how it is played. It likely had a total of 60 cards (four kings, forty pip cards and sixteen trumps). The forty-four plain-suited cards used birds as suit signs and the trumps presented sixteen Roman gods. In two suits, the pip cards are in reverse order as in many of the oldest card games. Two decks from June 1457 seem to relate to a visit at Ferrara of the young Milanese heir of the dukedom Galeazzo Maria Sforza in July/August 1457. Each deck consisted of 70 cards — the
Eight Cards Eight Cards Eight Cards () is a simple, German patience game that is played with a French pack of 52 cards. Like most patience games, Eight Cards is a solitary card game. The cards, a single Rommé pack of 52 cards, are shuffled and placed in front of the player as a stock. The card values of the pip cards correspond to the face values; in addition the Ace is worth one, the Jack, Queen and King score 11 each. The top eight cards are picked up and placed on the table in the shape of a rectangle: Now pairs