Eric Muller scripsit: > >A suggestion for playaing cards: why not including the "Tarots"? > >I mean in French the 4 "Cavaliers" figures, the 18 "Atouts", and the > >"Excuse" > >(which is not exactly a Joker); sorry I don't have their English names. > > > Make that 21 atouts (labeled "1" through "21"), for a total of 78 cards. > The "cavalier" is between the jack and the queen. Very popular game in > high school and college in my days.
"Trumps" in English. I suggest that 21 trumps be encoded, but not named, because the correspondence of names to numbers is variable. Suitable names would be PLAYING CARD TRUMP I through PLAYING CARD TRUMP XXI. The Fool, the 22nd or un-numbered trump, is the direct ancestor of the Joker and should be unified with it. The fourth court card in each suit is called the Knight in English; these should also be encoded. This would call for 25 more cards. Documentation on the Tarot is extensive and readily available. -- John Cowan www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'Tis the Linux rebellion / Let coders take their place, The Linux-nationale / Shall Microsoft outpace, We can write better programs / Our CPUs won't stall, So raise the penguin banner of / The Linux-nationale.
