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Traditional Solitaire potential combinations...
that clenched another win (yahoo)
jimmied today August 15th, 2022 single handedly
just before the crack of dawn
with both hands tied behind my back,
and a blindfold worn over my eyes.

While in the midst of playing solitaire 
(with losing outcome foreordained 
after a couple moves), I became gripped 
with combinations predicated on thirteen 
ranks each of four French suits subsumed: 
Clubs (?), Diamonds (?), Hearts (?) And Spades (?). 

I  totalled a sum of fifty two variations. 

If one of four possible draws for king available, 
(which could be either Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, 
and Spades), that would automatically determine 
every subsequent card diminishing in rank 
topped off with an Ace. 

Please feel welcome to challenge my presumption
within a dark (and stormy) alley late at night.

The above calculation logical since a standard deck 
(not surprisingly) comprises 52 cards 
(4 suits of 13). 

Each suit (Clubs ?, Diamonds ?, Hearts ?, Or Spades ?) 
contains an Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 
Jack, Queen, And King. 

There are no duplicates.

No Google search yielded results 
asper this nagging question, but unexpectedly 
whet an immediate appetite describing 
the history of plain old vanilla playing cards. 

Said legacy encompassing the four suits 
i.e. collectively represent four elements 
(wind, fire, water, and earth), 
the seasons, and cardinal directions. 

They represent struggle of opposing forces 
for victory in life. Each suit on a deck of cards 
represents four major pillars of economy 
during middle ages: Heart represented 
Church, Spades represented  military, 
clubs represented agriculture, and 
Diamonds represented merchant class.

King of hearts is the only king minus a mustache. 

Face cards (Jacks, Queens, And Kings) so called 
"face cards" because the cards 
have pictures of their names. 

One-eyed Royals (the Jack of spades 
and Jack of Hearts often called "one-eyed Jacks"), 
and King of Diamonds drawn in profile; 
therefore, these cards 
commonly referred to as "one-eyed".

The King of Spades ? ranks 
as one of three immovable Fixed Cards 
in the Cards of Life and resides 
in the Crown Line of both Master Scripts 
(Spirit and Life). 

Said card, in situ, the most powerful card 
in the deck.

A Jack or Knave is a playing card, 
which in traditional French and English decks, 
pictures a man in traditional or historic 
aristocratic dress generally associated 
with Europe of the 16th or 17th century. 

The usual rank of a Jack, within its suit, 
plays as if it were an 11 
(that is, between the 10 and the Queen). 

Charming, resourceful, personable and easy-going 
best defines Jack of Spades. 

Blessed with a creative mind, 
this one-eyed Jack of the deck manifests 
jais nais sais quois salient scrutiny 
jest via virtue of lightness of his being. 

The four card suits that we know today — 
Hearts, Diamonds, Spades, and Clubs 
(rooted in French design) circa 15th century, 
but the idea of card suits is much older. 

The written history of card playing 
began during 10th-century Asia, 
from either China or India, 
as a gambling game. 

That idea found its way to ancient Muslim world 
before 14th century. 

The oldest known deck of Muslim playing cards, 
like the playing cards of today, 
had four suits: Coins, Cups, Swords, and Polo Sticks. 

These decks of cards then showed up 
in southern Europe, but because polo sticks 
were unfamiliar to Europeans, that suit 
eventually changed to Scepters, Batons, 
or Cudgels (a type of club).
In France, Parisian cardmakers 
settled on Spades, Hearts, Clubs, and Diamonds 
as the four suits.  
    
The first adaptations of German card suits 
constituted Leaves, Hearts, and Hawk Bells 
(Acorns rounded out German suit). 

Considering cards strictly made 
for French upper class, this little surprise 
cardmakers chose expensive 
Diamonds over common Acorns.

The French advanced card making utilizing 
flat, single-color silhouettes for suits. 

These images created with simple stencils, 
made manufacture easy, quick, and inexpensive. 

Innovative new, cheaper cards 
flooded the market in the 15th century, 
became popular in England, 
and then traveled to America.     

Contrary to contemporary belief four suits 
meant to represent four seasons inaccurate. 

Equally questionable 52 cards linkedin 
to 52 weeks of the year. 

Many numerological and religious 
explanations asper composition  
analogous to deck of cards postulated, 
but these explanations purportedly created 
ex post facto, perhaps to give deck-holders 
a solid argument, that role deck of cards 
maintained existed other than for gambling.
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