Bicycle Playing Cards Bicycle Playing Cards Bicycle Playing Cards is a brand of playing cards. Since 1885, the Bicycle brand has been manufactured by the United States Printing Company, which, in 1894, became the United States Playing Card Company (USPCC) of Cincinnati. "Bicycle" is a trademark of that company. The name Bicycle was chosen to reflect . Bicycle is a standard 52-card deck of red and black colored cards. Also known as the French deck, each card may have one of the four suits: spades, clubs, diamonds, and hearts. The numbers on the cards range from 2 to 10, then proceed onward to
Quodlibet (card game) Quodlibet (card game) Quodlibet (lat.: "what pleases") is a traditional card game associated with central European student fraternities that is played with William Tell pattern cards and in which the dealer is known as the 'beer king'. It is a compendium, trick-taking game for 4 players using a 32-card pack of double German playing cards. Quodlibet is an old student drinking game which is described in an 1862 source as comprising around 20 different deals ("Touren") each, in itself, almost childish, but collectively making for an enjoyable variety. The well known children's game, Schwarzer Peter (or Old Maid in Britain),