These cards, slightly larger than today ’ s postcards, were produced by letterpress and wood engraving on coated card stock.

Occasionally, one may find a domino set made of card stock like that for playing cards.

* Utility knife: A short knife with a replaceable triangular blade, used for cutting sheet materials including card stock, paperboard, and corrugated fiberboard

This flexible waxed sheet is backed by a sheet of stiff card stock, with the sheets bound at the top.

For years laserprinters have been the popular choice, however line matrix printers have improved technological aspects and now claim to hold significant benefits over laser printers in terms of energy savings, cost per page, reliability in industrial environments and media flexibility ( multipart forms, oversize media, peel off labels, cloth, or card stock ).

Players can not take from the stock pile on their first turn unless a player acting prior has taken from the discard pile and discarded a card.

* draw either the ( up card ) top card of the discard pile, or the ( face-down ) top card from the stock pile, and discard one card from his or her hand onto the discard pile.

In the United States, a picture or blank card stock that held a message and sent through the mail at letter rate first began when a card postmarked in December 1848 contained printed advertising on it.

The winner of each trick declares one meld face up on the table and scores points for it, takes a card from the top of the stock and then leads to the next trick.

The other player draws the second card from the stock but may not declare a meld.

The most commonly types are balsa wood, polystyrene and card stock.

The rectangular chad from punched cards is unsuitable due to the sharp corners and the toughness of the card stock risking eye injury.

* If, after the trump card is turned up, and before proposing, or, if there is no proposal, before playing, it be discovered that the non-dealer has fewer than five cards, he may have his hand completed from the stock, or may claim a fresh deal.

* If, after the trump card is turned up, and before the dealer accepts or refuses, or, if there is no proposal, before he plays, it be discovered that the dealer has fewer than five cards, the non-dealer may permit the dealer to complete his hand from the stock, or may claim a fresh deal.

* If a face-up card be found in the stock after discarding, both players have a right to see it.

De Moivre estimated the loss of the punter under any circumstance of cards remaining in the stock when he lays his stake, and of any number of times that his card is repeated in the stock.

# That the least loss of the punter, under the same circumstances of cards remaining in the stock, is when the card is but twice in it ; the next greater when but three times ; still greater when four times ; and the greatest when but once.

The program cited Pelosi's purchases of Visa stock while a bill that would limit credit card fees was in the House.

Another version allows for the top card of the discard pile to be removed and the remaining cards in the discard pile are reshuffled and serve as a new stock pile when the stock pile has run out.

Of significant note is that it was the first new game for the system whose game card has an authentic " curved lip " plastic shell.

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 winner of the wild card has won the first round 7 out of the 11 years since the re-alignment and creation of the NLDS.

According to Nate Silver, the advent of this playoff series, and especially of the wild card, has caused teams to focus more on " getting to the playoffs " rather than " winning the pennant " as the primary goal of the regular season.

Since the 1960s, blackjack has been a high profile target of advantage players, particularly card counters, who track the profile of cards that have been dealt and adapt their wager and playing strategies accordingly.

* Surrender ( only available as first decision of a hand ): Some games offer the option to " surrender ", usually in hole card games and directly after the dealer has checked for blackjack ( but see below for variations ).

When the last hand has finished being played, the dealer reveals the hole card, and stands or draws further cards according to the rules of the game for dealer drawing.

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.

It is advantageous to make an insurance bet whenever the hole card has more than a chance of one in three of being a ten.

After the contract has been established, the play of the cards proceeds as in most trick-taking card games until all thirteen tricks have been played with the result that the declaring side has either succeeded or failed in fulfilling their part of the contract.

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.

The advent of online billing and the easy availability of credit card services has made it relatively easy for almost anyone to maintain an account in good standing, regardless of where they actually live.

As a member of the Avengers, Rogers has an Avengers priority card, which serves as a communications device.

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

The only exception to this rule is if a player receives a 5th non-victory point progress card on his or her turn, in which case he or she has the option of playing any one of the five progress cards in his or her hand during the turn, thus bringing the progress card count back down to four.

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.

The " Longest Road " card is now renamed the " Longest Trade Route " since this is now calculated by counting the number of contiguous ships plus roads that a player has.

" As with the Tarot deck there is symbolic art and each card has two complementary meanings when upright or reversed ( while face up ).

If a player has three of a kind and several other players have drawn new cards, one strategy is to draw only one card.

Other players may underestimate the hand, believing the player has two pairs or lacks a card for a straight or flush.

Usually every card will be smooth ; however, some decks have braille to allow blind people to read the card number and suit.

While a software renderer was available, for smooth gameplay a 3D card was all but essential, and GPL supported only two types: 3dfx and Rendition Verité.

" A smooth low hand is one where the remaining cards after the highest card are themselves very low ; a rough low hand is one where the remaining cards are high.

Impressions of fingerprints may be left behind on a surface by the natural secretions of sweat from the eccrine glands that are present in friction ridge skin, or they may be made by ink or other substances transferred from the peaks of friction ridges on the skin to a relatively smooth surface such as a fingerprint card.