What's in a deck of cards?
A standard deck of playing cards contains 52 cards.
- Each card has three attributes.
- colour: red; black
- suit: heart -
;
diamond -
;
club -
;
spade -
- value: ace - A; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; jack - J; queen - Q;
king - K
- Hearts and diamonds are red cards. Clubs and spades are black cards.
- Jacks, queens, and kings are called face cards.