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Pages in category "Spanish card games" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Spanish-suited playing cards. Castilian pattern introduced by Heraclio Fournier. Spanish-suited playing cards or Spanish-suited cards have four suits, and a deck is usually made up of 40 or 48 cards (or even 50 by including two jokers ). It is categorized as a Latin-suited deck and has strong similarities with the Portuguese-suited deck ...
Lotería (Spanish word meaning "lottery") is a traditional Mexican board game of chance, similar to bingo, and is played on a deck of cards instead of numbered ping pong balls. Every image has a name and an assigned number, but the number is usually ignored. Each player has at least one tabla, a board with a randomly created 4 x 4 grid of ...
Tute ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈtute] ⓘ) is a trick-taking card game of the ace–ten family for two to four players. Originating in Italy, where it was known as tutti, during the 19th century the game spread in Spain, becoming one of the most popular card games in the country. The name of the game was later modified by Spanish speakers, who ...
Uno ( / ˈuːnoʊ /; from Spanish and Italian for 'one'), stylized as UNO, is a proprietary American shedding-type card game originally developed in 1971 by Merle Robbins in Reading, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati, that housed International Games Inc., a gaming company acquired by Mattel on January 23, 1992. [ 3]
Ombre (from Spanish hombre 'man', [1] pronounced "omber") or l'Hombre is a fast-moving seventeenth-century trick-taking card game for three players and "the most successful card game ever invented." [2] Its history began in Spain around the end of the 16th century as a four-person game. [3] It is one of the earliest card games known in Europe ...
Cluedo ( / ˈkluːdoʊ / ), known as Clue in North America, is a murder mystery game for three to six players (depending on editions) that was devised in 1943 by British board game designer Anthony E. Pratt. The game was first manufactured by Waddingtons in the United Kingdom in 1949. Since then, it has been relaunched and updated several times ...
These variants generally use the standard six surnames with different first names or titles, often changing the gender of the original character. The UK edition of Cluedo Jr. introduced the first animal players or suspects: Samantha Scarlett, Mustard the Dog, Wendy White, George Green, Polly Peacock, and Peter Plum.