Card meanings - Joker, Trumps and Queen of Spades

The simplest card values we probably all knowBut there are some special cards that not only have special values and meanings, but are also surrounded by mystical, if not slightly creepy, stories. 
Card meanings - Queen of Spades

Card values about the mysterious Queen of Spades, the foolish jokers-jokers, and the "ruler" of all cards - the trump card. 

Card meanings: death card - Queen of Spades

The Queen of Spades is often seen as a scary, mysterious card. In games, it is a bad card, often used to lose or cheat.

For example, in a game called 'Queen of Spades', players shuffle a deck of cards and draw one card at a time. If the last card is drawn, the player loses immediately.

Another cheat and game/trick is the "Three-corte monte", often played with money. The main card in the game is, of course, the Queen of Spades. The 'victim' of this game is implicitly persuaded by various methods that she can find the right card among the three cards laid on the table by swapping them. If he succeeds, the player wins the money; if not, the dealer is declared the winner. Interestingly, in this game, if the cards are exchanged correctly (apart from the luck factor), the player will never be able to trace where the Queen of Spades is hidden. A player can only win if he is specifically allowed to do so, with the aim of arousing a desire to play on and for larger sums. In addition, in the 19th century, a famous American swindler and gangster Jefferson Smith was shot in retaliation for cheating and extorting money in this particular game of three-card monte.

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Alexander Pushkin - The queen of spadesThrough a series of horrifying coincidences and stories, the Queen of Wines has become a "death" card. Moreover, this mysterious story inspired Alexander Pushkin to write an epigraph "The queen of spades"and later, an opera. According to the story, the young Prince Golytsin, who was completely broke, asked his great-grandmother, the Countess, to raise the necessary amount of money. The latter listed three magic cards that would help him win, but the fateful third card did not turn out as predicted, but the Queen of Spades. The tension and the dashed hopes drive the protagonist mad. It is also interesting that historical sources mention that not a single manuscript of The Queen of Spades has survived, nor has the original been found, only a copy of the epigraph published in a magazine. Also, Pushkin himself wrote that while writing "The Queen of Spades", he was overwhelmed by gloomy forebodings and sad thoughts, despite the outward peace and prosperity.

There are many mythical stories about the Queen of Spades, some fictional and some, it is said, true, so even now people rarely mention this card and the Black Lady and feel very uncomfortable when they hear her name...

Card values: kthe jokers of the arali jokers

In 1857, an unseen, meaningless card appeared in a deck issued in New York, USA, from originally known as "the fool". Nowadays, this card is called a joker, joker or joker. joker). Today, the purpose of these cards depends on the rules of the game - they can be used in place of other cards in the deck, or they can have the highest power, in other words, the highest rank or highest value.

Card Joker meaningAccording to these the history of cards, it is consistent with the origin of the other pony cards. As already mentioned, the cards were primarily intended for the entertainment of the nobility and quite accurately reflect the hierarchy of the nobility at the time: kings, queens, knights and valets.

History tells us that most palaces had jesters, who had more rights than ordinary courtiers. The jester had the "freedom of the fool": his speech could not be restrained by anyone except the lord himself, and he was rarely disciplined. Interestingly, the jesters did not only make the banquets laugh participants, but often even mocked their masters. Hence the importance of the joker in card games, when he appears at some unknown time and is a card of skill, and has the greatest value or substitutes for any card. Usually the joker has 11, 15 or 20 points.

What does this baddie look like? His outfit is always bright and colourful (the dominant colours are green for stupidity, yellow for contempt and red for hell), and his face is painted with the characteristic smile of a snarling, twisted freak. Interestingly, the jester's most important accessory is a hat made of different coloured cloth (known elsewhere as a fool's hat), from which two or three ends, usually decorated with bells or chimes, emerge. Although its description has changed over time, reminders and symbols of it in one form or another are with us all the time.

The Joker is also used in modern advertising

Based on various stories, plots and associations, the Joker, a villainous character in books and films, is also created. The latter character is probably best known from the comic books, where he is Batman's greatest enemy and the reason for his failures. The Joker, created by English authors, first appeared in Batman issue #1 in 1940. People liked the character so much that since 1966 we have been seeing him in various media, culture and even art. The Joker has appeared in all Batman installments (1966, 1989, 1993, 2016). In 2008, he was also seen in The Dark Knight. The Dark Knight). The Joker also appeared as a film character in 2016's Suicide Squad. Suicide Squad), 2017 Lego Batman. The Lego Batman Movie) and in October 2019, we saw his debut in the film that bears his name, "The Joker" ( Joker). In both comics and films, the Joker is portrayed as a criminal mastermind, a villain who is a little crazy, sometimes frightening or even scary, and who seeks omnipotent power. 

Movie - Joker

Card values: vthe ultimate trump card!

The word itself comes from the Latin "triumphus", meaning triumph over victory. In English, this card also referred to as "triumph card", while the Lithuanian name - koziris - is believed to have come from southern Europe. 

In principle, the meaning of the trump card can also be understood as a special, basic, a core thing, a significance, often used even in colloquial speech, e.g. my trump card - fortune-telling with cards.

triumph card - koziris court

 The game usually determines which cards in the family will become the jokers, or jokers, and how they will play. For example, in Ramse, the last card of the dealer's hand becomes the trump card dealt, the top card of the deck becomes the trump card in "Durnie", but after the cards have been dealt to the players. However, as a rule, the trumps are usually wines.