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Traditional Solitaire potential combinations

Traditional Solitaire potential combinations... that clenched another win today February 20th, 2024 (eight hundred and ninety yesterdays ago since June 13th, 2021) original crafting date of following poem, when yours truly single handedly trumped computer, for umpteenth time, which saw countless instances, where all knowing one witnessed all fifty two cards automatically filling four stacks anchored courtesy king and nabbed another virtual trophy. 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 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, tis 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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