Playing card as these 52 cards, commercial packs often include between one and six jokers, most often two. Decks with less than 52 cards are known as stripped decks. The piquet pack has all values from 2 through 6 in each suit removed for a total of 32 cards. It is popular in France, the Low Countries, Central Europe and Russia and is used to play piquet, belote, bezique and skat. It is also used in the Sri Lankan, whist-based game known as "omi". Forty-card French suited packs are common in northwest Italy; these remove the 8s through 10s like Latin suited
Knight (playing card) Knight (playing card) A knight or cavalier is a playing card with a picture of a man riding a horse on it. It is a face card and is called "caballo" in Spanish playing cards and "cavallo" in Italian playing cards. In these decks, it ranks between the knave and the king within its suit. Among French playing cards, the knight ("chevalier") can only be found in tarot decks. In Latin and French suited tarot decks, the knight ranks between the knave and the queen. Knights do not appear in German or Swiss playing cards; their place being occupied by