Are You a King or Queen of Cards? Quiz

Blackjack, also called Twenty-one, is one of the most popular casino games in the world. The goal of the game is to have a higher score than the dealer by getting as close to twenty-one points as possible without going over. The player can choose to have the ace to be worth 1 or 11 points. Face cards are worth 10 points. So in our photo example, the ace could be 11 points and the 10 is a face value of 10 points to equal 21 points making a blackjack! A possible origin for the name blackjack is from the early 1900s when gambling houses would pay a bonus if a player had the ace of spades along with either the jack of spades or jack of clubs.

Gin rummy is a card game where each player maintains 10 cards in their hand. The goal is to gain either sets of 3 or 4 of a kind or runs in the same suit of 3 or more cards. So in my photo example, there is a set of three 9s and a run of the 3-4-5 of clubs.

The other 4 cards in the photo hand are potential matches for either three 8s or a run with the addition of the king of hearts. In Gin rummy, if a player makes all ten cards into a set or a run they can call "gin" and go out gaining a bonus of 25 points. Alternatively, a player can choose to "knock" with their leftover card(s).

In this case, if the opponent has fewer points left in their hand that are unmatched, the player who knocked would lose. Elwood Baker created Gin rummy in 1909.

Pinochle is a trick-taking game that uses a unique deck of cards with only the high cards of the 9 through the Ace. If that isn't complicated enough, the 10 is the second-highest card after the Ace and before the King, Queen, and Jack. There are two of each of the 24 different cards making a total of 48 cards in a deck.

At the start of a hand, all of the cards are evenly dealt to the players. The player then bids on how many points they think they can make in the round. The highest bidder gets the advantage of calling the trump suit, but if they do not make their bid points they lose the amount of points they bid.

As for the name "pinochle", it is thought to be derived from the French word "binochle" meaning two-eyed or eyeglasses. It is believed that the deck of cards used at the time of creation had both the queen of spades and the jack of diamonds in profile only showing one eye each. Combining the two leads to "two eyes" or a binochle! Since there are two queens of spades and two jacks of diamonds a player can actually have a double pinochle.

Does anything look peculiar about the poker hand of two black aces and two black eights? Supposedly, according to author Frank Wilstach, this combination is called the "dead man's hand" after his suggestion that it was the hand Wild Bill Hickok had when he was shot in the back. Poker is a very popular gambling game where players try to fool each other about how strong their hand really is. If two or more players are still playing the hand at the end then the player with the highest combination of cards wins the pot. If only one player is left at the end of the round then they automatically win the pot without having to show their hand. Several versions of poker are available with Texas Hold'em and Omaha becoming incredibly popular in recent years.

Canasta is a variation of 500 rum where two decks of cards are used for the game. In the game, players try to meld 7 of a kind to achieve a canasta. Jokers and 2s are wild and can help to fulfill the canasta. Red 3s are also special cards worth 100 points each.

Canasta was created by Sequndo Sanchez Santos and Alberto Serrato of Uruguay in 1939. There are over a dozen different variations of canasta that players enjoy around the world. The word canasta means basket in Spanish.

The game of hearts is first mentioned in the United States though a German origin is possible. The game is similar to other trick-taking games like spades or bridge except the goal of hearts is to avoid taking tricks. In particular, players want to avoid taking tricks with one or more heart cards on the trick as these will give the player one point per heart.

However, the worst card to get is the queen of spades which is worth 13 points! The only time taking the queen of spades is good is if the player can also take all 13 of the heart cards and take all 26 possible points. Achieving this feat is called shooting the moon and rather than gaining 26 points the player will give all of their opponents 26 points! It is tricky to shoot the moon but oh so awesome when accomplished!

War is a card game often introduced to children. In the game, the entire deck of cards is dealt out face-down to the two players. The top card on each player's deck is flipped over causing a battle. Whichever card is highest wins the battle with an ace being the highest and a two the lowest. If the players turn over the same valued card then a war is declared and each player puts their next three cards face down and flips over the fourth card. Whoever has the highest fourth card wins the war and the three additional down cards.

The goal of the game is to win all of the cards which is very difficult and tedious to do.

Euchre is trick-taking game using a 24-card deck leaving out the 2 through 8 out of each suit. Each player is dealt 5 cards and starting to the left of the dealer has an opportunity to take the bid. If they chose to take the bid they lock in the trump suit and must take at least 3 of the 5 tricks to score 1 point. If they fail to score 3 of the tricks they are 'euchered' and the other team scores 2 points.

In Euchre the jack of trump is called the right bower and the jack of the other suit of the same color is called the left bower.

These two jacks are the highest cards in the round followed by the A, K, Q, 10, and 9. The game of Euchre has been around since the 1800s.

Crazy eights is a game where players try to get rid of all of the cards in their hands. When it is a player's turn if they have the same suit or card value as the top discard they can play that card from their hand. Eights are special cards as they can be played on any top discard and the player of the eight can choose the suit they want to make it. If a player can't make a discard they have to take a card from the draw pile.

In the most common version of crazy eights playing a two (duce) makes the next player lose their turn and draw two cards while playing a four makes the next player skip their turn.

The game of cribbage is pretty old being first described in the 17th century. While a standard deck of cards is used there is also a cribbage board with 121 peg holes for keeping score. Each player has 4 cards in their hands along with the one starter card shared in common with the other player. Cribbage has a playing stage where players play the cards from their hands in a stack in front of them. The total value of the cards played by both players is counted up to 31 points at which point the total resets. Points can be earned in this stage by getting exactly 15 or 31 points. They also can be earned by playing the same value card as the opponent.

Once the playing stage is over, the meld for each player's hand is counted. The pictured hand for this quiz is the top melding hand which earns 29 points. For this hand, the jack in the hand must be the same suit as the shared 5 card earning the player with the jack a bonus point. The rest of the points are obtained from the combination of the four of a kind and the total of 15 point combinations that can be made.