Card game culture has led to the near-universal popularity and availability of French-suited playing cards even in areas with their own regional card art. In Japan, a distinct 48-card hanafuda deck is popular. It is derived from 16th-century Portuguese decks, after undergoing a long evolution driven by laws enacted by the Tokugawa shogunate attempting to ban the use of playing cards The best-known deck internationally is the 52-card Anglo-American deck used for such games as poker and contract bridge. It contains one card for each unique combination of thirteen "ranks" and the four French "suits" "spades", "hearts", "diamonds", and "clubs". The ranks
Chicago (bridge card game) Chicago (bridge card game) Chicago, also known as Four-deal Bridge and Short Bridge, is a form of contract bridge and a variation of rubber bridge in which one or more sets of four deals are played and scored. Getting its name from the Standard Club of Chicago where it originated in the early 1960s, the game is well suited to club and home play. While the auction and the play of the hand are the same as in rubber bridge, Chicago has the following unique features: In modern Chicago scoring, the result of each deal is recorded on a score