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
Curse of Scotland cards. It contains a "Pope" card (and, indeed, a "Popess") but there seems to be no connection with the Pope Joan card game, even though the popess may have derived from the mythical Pope Joan. The expression "Curse of Scotland" is sometimes used simply to refer to an occasion of bad luck at cards and can also refer to generally unwanted situations in Scotland, such as swarms of midges. There is a theatrical superstition, sometimes called the "Scottish curse", that speaking the name "Macbeth" in the theatre brings bad luck. Hence "the Scottish Play" is used to refer to Shakespeare's