* Hearts are Trumps ( 1920 )

The Trumps and multiverse are restored and Corwin begins to relate the first Five novels to his son Merlin.

While regular Trumps are in Tarot card form, they can also be drawn upon walls, doors and even living beings.

Trumps, including all four jacks, count as a single suit in their own right ; if trumps are led, every player must also play trumps if he has any.

In Flora's library he locates a set of customised Tarot cards — the Trumps — whose Major Arcana are replaced with images which he recognises as his family.

* Hearts are Trumps, 1848

" Codeshop " examines more technical subjects such as 3D modelling programs or physics middleware, while " Studio Profile " and " University Profile " are single-page summaries (" like Top Trumps, but for game dev ") of particular developers or publishers, and game-related courses at higher education institutions.

Iceland's Top Trumps are owned by Nordic Games which is the sales department within Iceland.

Other Countries that Winning Moves make Top Trumps for are: Canada, France, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Denmark, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Turkey, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

There are various Top Trumps Showcase cards released with the Hamleys 3D announcement event that can show you images.

Activity packs are another version of Top Trumps that have now replaced the old Juniors range.

Six new football Mini Top Trumps packs are to be released, available in the Top Trumps online shop and an X Factor pack were also released.

There are also at least three educational variations of the game: Cell Trumps from Centre of the Cell, Tree Trumps from Forestry Commission ( as an interactive exhibit in the Glenmore Visitor Centre and as a card game available in some Forestry Commission Scotland giftshops ) and Timber Trumps from Napier University.

There are nine additional cards, like Major Arcana or " Trumps " in Tarot, which are unranked: Granola, the Lobster, the Snail, the Jester, Time, Light, Beauty, Death, and the Grue.

Trumps and face cards have a gilt background, while the " pip " cards are cream-coloured with a flower and vine motif.

* Diamonds are Trumps

The Trumps of Doom won the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 1985.

Coral's younger sister Nayda is revealed to be possessed by the mysterious body-possessing " t ' yiga " demon which had previously been Vinta Bayle ( and, for a short while, several other people on Earth, in " Trumps of Doom "): but since the real Nayda actually died of a long-standing heart condition just as the t ' yiga possessed her ( possession is normally harmless ), it is now trapped in her form permanently.

Originally, with the exception of the Pattern and the Trumps, there was no way for the Amberites to exercise their abilities within Amber itself.

Trumps can also be made for places, for example the Palace of Amber.

Trumps of Doom won the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 1986.

In Untouchable One Of Trumps variant, the player who has no trump except the Petit can still play, but the Petit is played like the Fool ; if it does not take the trick, it is given back to its owner in exchange for a half-point card.

Trumps: Every player is allowed to choose the trump for the round once.

Top Trumps was a popular children's card game in the United Kingdom in the 1970s and 1980s, especially amongst boys, for whom it was a popular playground pastime.

This had 19 playing cards and a 10 % discount for cultandcool. com inside as well as a message from Top Trumps.

A number of Top Trumps packs have Super Top Trump ( STT ) cards issued for them, also known as Supercards in the United States.

* Lunar Jim Top Trumps cover card released for the Space and Space Phenomenan decks which was given away at the Alliance Atlantis / BBC Worldwide Lunar Jim themed promotion, 2007.

* The Prince of Persia pack came with two bonus cards for the Top Trumps Tournament.

Mid 2009, it was announced that Winning Moves have been in discussions with parties to try and create a version of Top Trumps for the iPhone.

They contained 18 playable cards for the packs and 2 extra bonus cards for the Top Trumps Tournaments.

Timber Trumps was, for the first few days, originally called Tree Trumps and is currently listed under this name on Channel4's Games website.

The Royal Society of Chemistry has produced a pack of Visual Elements Trumps, using element data for play.

Pandy, along with his two brothers Hutch and Colin also take claim for inventing the game Top Trumps with the early version being based on the value of fruits and vegetables.

Nearly all of Corwin's relatives carry a deck of Tarot cards, with a key alteration: each family member is on one of the Trumps.

The sequence of the 22 Trumps is explained as a formula of Initiation.

As shown later, Trumps of Doom all lead to neighboring locations and serve Rinaldo as a quick escapeway to the blue stone cave, while hindering or disabling pursuit.

Five of the six short stories were collected in Manna from Heaven ( 2003 ), along with the Trumps of Doom prologue and 16 non-Amber stories.

The next series begins with Trumps of Doom following his son, Merlin, as the protagonist.

* Sandra Landy and EBU Committee, Really Easy Play with Trumps ( 1999 ) The English Bridge Union, Aylesbury, England.

The original Top Trumps were launched in 1977, with eleven different packs published by a company named Dubreq.

Winning Moves ' Top Trumps logo design with the slogan ' Collectible, Competitive, Compulsive !'.

This came with a special Smart Santa collector card which didn't have stats on and was not a Top Trumps card.

For example, the popular US television series 24 has a Top Trumps pack available, but its STT card is only available with the purchase of special-stickered season 4 of 24 DVDs.

In 2006, and working in conjunction with the Haynes publishing group, Winning Moves launched a line of books under the Top Trumps brand, based around the design and concept of the card game.

Top Trumps is available through a mobile gaming service, in which users can play single player against the computer, compete against up to three friends on one mobile, or with a single opponent via a bluetooth connection.

The DVD game comes with two video pack, trivia quizzes, a video countdown and a football Managers Top Trumps game.

A new mug was released with the World Football Top Trumps promotional pack.

Top Trumps Tournament is a new type of Top Trumps that comes with 6 new Classics packs and a spinner to choose the pack to play.

This also led to a few promotions including giving a couple getting married a chance to get into their own wedding pack and a special WOW card was made to be played with the Top Trumps Tournament was in the packs of Top Trumps.

The BBC web site has Top Trumps variants with themes of snooker, Buffy, Doctor Who and EastEnders.