Blank (playing card) court cards are also called "Ladons", "Latons" or "Ladonis". Low-value poker cards may be called "rags". Blank (playing card) A blank is playing card in card-point games that is a non-counter or is worth nothing. The names of the non-counters varies from region to region and game to game. In Poker they are blanks, bricks or bombs. In the German games of Schafkopf, Doppelkopf, Sixty-six and Skat, the 7s, 8s and 9s in all card suits are "Luschen". In the popular Swiss game of Jass the "Luschen" are the 6s, 7s, 8s and 9s; unlike Skat, however, the 9 of
International Playing-Card Society International Playing-Card Society The International Playing-Card Society (IPCS) is a non-profit organisation for those interested in playing cards, their design, and their history. While many of its members are collectors of playing cards, they also include historians of playing cards and their uses, particularly card games and their history. The IPCS is based in the United Kingdom, but has members worldwide, especially in Europe. It produces a quarterly journal "The Playing-Card", which publishes articles mostly in English but also in French, German, Italian and Spanish. It also publishes occasional monographs called "IPCS Papers", and issues pattern sheets which systematize types