* Trump: Trump Artists can create Trumps, a sort of tarot card which allows mental communication and travel.

The direction that each face down card is pointed indicates which side won each trick, so that at the end of the hand, the number of tricks taken by each side can be determined.

Many can be used on a standalone basis without a computer, using a memory card or USB connector.

For example, a poker hand can be described as a 5-combination ( k = 5 ) of cards from a 52 card deck ( n = 52 ).

Should a card accidentally become exposed, ( visible to all ), any player can demand a redeal ( all the cards are gathered up, and the shuffle, cut, and deal are repeated ) or that the card be replaced randomly into the deck (" burning " it ) and a replacement dealt from the top to the player who was to receive the revealed card.

If there is a sense in which a card game can have an " official " set of rules, it is when that card game has an " official " governing body.

Since the invention of the MIDI system in the early 1980s, for example, some people have worked on programs which map MIDI notes to an algorithm and then can either output sounds or music through the computer's sound card or write an audio file for other programs to play.

Access to encrypted channels can be controlled by a removable smart card, for example via the Common Interface ( DVB-CI ) standard for Europe and via Point Of Deployment ( POD ) for IS or named differently CableCard.

This principle can be extended to engineer a grating with a structure such that it will produce any diffraction pattern desired ; the hologram on a credit card is an example.

This can be a push button switch or a swipe card.

Progress cards, unlike the development cards they replace, can be played on the turn that they are drawn, and more than one progress card can be played per turn.

The merchant can only be deployed through the use of a Merchant progress card ( of which there are six ), on a land hex near a city or a settlement.

This can include ball games, Blind man's bluff, board games, card games, children's games, croquet, Frisbee, hide and seek, number games, paintball and video games.

EFTPOS transactions involving a debit, credit or prepaid card can be authenticated in a number of ways.

The first digit indicates if a card can be used internationally or is valid for domestic use only.

The third digit is used to indicate the preferred card verification method ( e. g. PIN ) and the environment where the card can be used ( e. g. at point of sale only ).

In games with a full card deck and four or more players, two pairs can often be the winning hand.

For example, if the last player to draw wants three replacements but there are only two cards remaining in the deck, the dealer gives the player the one top card he can give, then shuffles together the bottom card of the deck, the burn card, and the earlier players ' discards ( but not the player's own discards ), and finally deals two more replacements to the last player.

New in 2008, the abalone card also comes with a set of 24 tags.

A similar solution was the 850 kbit / s DaynaTalk, a separate box which plugged in between the computer and a normal LocalTalk / PhoneNet box, and also offered as a PC expansion card that ran up to 1. 7 Mbit / s.

To enhance and modernize the Aster CT-80 the company also designed three alternative video display adapters to supplement or replace the TRS-80 compatible video card, ( due to the modular nature of the Aster it was simply a matter of changing the video card, and / or CPU card to upgrade the system ).

* A very High resolution monochrome video card with blitter and hardware text line and arc drawing capability, was designed for CAD applications, based on the NEC µPD7220 chip designed for graphic terminals, but was also used by some personal computers like the DEC Rainbow, and notably also for the Tulip System I.

The video card also supported 16 foreground and 16 background colors per character, by providing one byte per character position ( 2K ) of " color ram ".

This video card would also support fast scrolling of high resolution color screens for games, because it had the indirection of the character pointers, so it was possible to quickly scroll the high resolution display, ( or use other effects ) by simply manipulating the 1920 / 1024 bytes of text video instead of the 24. 576 bytes of high resolution video memory.

During the early 1960s, while also active in ASCII standardization, IBM simultaneously introduced in its product line of System / 360 the 8-bit Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code ( EBCDIC ), an expansion of their 6-bit binary-coded decimal ( BCDIC ) representation used in earlier card punches.

In baseball, the statistic applies also to players who, prior to a game, are included on a starting lineup card or are announced as ex ante substitutes, whether they actually play or not, although, in Major League Baseball, the application of this statistic does not extend to consecutive games played streaks.

It is also dishonest to try to see cards as they are dealt, or to take advantage of having seen a card.

Comparing card games are those where hand values are compared to determine the winner, also known as " vying " or " showdown " games.

The card game is also put into games.

Delaware has also attracted some major credit card banks because of its relaxed rules regarding interest.

A debit card ( also known as a bank card or

The calendar also shows the costs of the next city improvement in each of the three categories — as a city is improved in a category, that segment has its card flipped down calendar style to reveal the newly built improvement, any advantages gained by the improvement, and the updated cost of upgrading to the next level in that category.

Each segment, as it is flipped down, also shows the updated dice pattern needed to earn the player a progress card in that category.

Because the Eurocard system provided for so many modular card sizes and because connector manufacturers have continued to create new connectors which are compatible with this system, it is a popular mechanical standard which is also used for innumerable " one-off " applications.

Cash out is not available in association with credit card sales because on credit card transactions the merchant is charged a percentage commission based on the transaction value, and also because cash withdrawals are treated differently to purchase transactions by the credit card company.

It is also used to signal if the card is chip-enabled.

On the other hand, the threat of the Soviet Union was used also in Finland's domestic politics in a way that possibly deepened Finlandization ( playing the so-called idänkortti, " east card ").

A card to Walter would get him an introduction to this Meredith, and that might be good for something.

Each adult is held personally responsible for assuring his inscription and obtaining an identification card which must be shown on demand.

You wonder about the Christmas card with no name on it, and it comes to you that maybe it would have been better to have made somebody else happy if you couldn't be happy yourself, to give somebody else the one they wanted -- to give them you.

The curve on the card the computer spat back at him couldn't be argued with, however.

The second item was PC with a sound card and a software program called Banpaia, and the third item was a phone that could easily be used for cloning, such as the Oki 900.

This signal would be fed into the sound card audio input of the PC, and Banpaia would decode the ESN / MIN pair from this signal and display it on the screen.

In all those systems, the medium ( card or tape ) conceptually carried an array of hole positions ; each position could be either punched through or not, thus carrying one bit of information.

The namesake of the board game, gameboards would seem to be a necessary and sufficient condition of the genre, though card games that do not use a standard deck of cards ( as well as games which use neither cards nor a gameboard ) are often colloquially included.

Knowledge of a burn card might be marginally useful, such as knowing there is one less Ace in the deck, but far less so than having it in play.

Sometimes a misdealt card ( such as one of the down cards in poker that has flashed during the deal ) will be used as the burn card — in those cases, the card should be immediately placed face up on the deck after the deal is complete.

The players ' object is to win money by creating card totals which will turn out to be higher than the dealer's hand, but without exceeding 21 (" busting "/" breaking ").

The idea is that the dealer's second card has a fairly high probability ( nearly one-third ) to be ten-valued, giving the dealer blackjack and disappointment for the player.

In rubber bridge, partnerships may be self-determined or decided by a cut of the cards, the two highest cut playing against the two lowest, and the first dealer is the player cutting the highest card.

In a cabled system, the cables need to be flexed every time that a card is added or removed from the system ; this flexing eventually causes mechanical failures.

Lenin advocated limiting party membership to a smaller core of active members, as opposed to " card carriers " who might only be active in party branches from time to time or not at all.

Both versions are initiated by a bid of four notrump ( 4NT ), and the entire family of conventions may be called Blackwood 4NT in both versions, or Key Card 4NT in the key card variation.

The fact that they use an impact printing method allows them to be used to print multi-part documents using carbonless copy paper, like sales invoices and credit card receipts, whereas other printing methods are unusable with paper of this type.