Cups (suit)
The suit of cups is one of the four
card packs.Symbol on Italian pattern cards: Symbol on Spanish pattern cards: Symbol on French Aluette Spanish pattern cards:
Characteristics
In
court cards are known as the rey (king), caballo (knight or cavalier) and sota (knave or valet). The Spanish play with packs of 40 or 48 cards. There are no tens and, in the shorter pack, the nines and eights are also dropped. Thus the suit of cups ranks: R C S (9 8) 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. In Italy the suit is known as coppe and the corresponding court cards are the re, cavallo and fante. Either 40 or 52-card packs are used. In the shorter packs, the tens, nines and eights are removed. Card ranking is thus: R C F (10 9 8) 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.[1]
Individual cards
- Seven of cups. In the game scopa, the seven of cups, along with the other suit sevens, is the highest-scoring card in the bonus of primiera.
The suit of goblets, also known as cups, is one of several suits of many tarot card packs used in tarot card readings and cartomancy.
See also
- Spanish playing cards
- Italian playing cards
- Suit of goblets or cups – suit used in divinatory tarot cards
References
- ^ Parlett 2008, p. xv.
Literature
- Parlett, David (2008). The Penguin book of card games. London: Penguin. OCLC 229463734.
External links
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