Sentence examples for face cards from inspiring English sources

FACE CARDS: Ace: next person has four chances to lay down another face card.

Twelve are the face cards in a deck.

Face cards count 10 points each, aces 1 point each, and other cards their index value.

(The other 56 are, in essence, a deck of playing cards, with four face cards instead of three).

The designs could be kissing owls, or hooded figures, or the face cards in a deck from another planet.

Card counting recognizes that in blackjack, face cards and 10's are more valuable to the player, while lower cards are better for the dealer.

The taxidriver tells how his wife bid three no-trump on a hand with no face cards because she had a terrible hand and didn't want anything trump".

A player dealt no face cards scores 10 points for a "blank" and must prove it by playing the cards rapidly faceup on the table.

"One day we were on a raid hunting down one of the face cards," she recalled, referring to the deck of cards identifying the most wanted officials of Saddam Hussein's government.

All the figures in the Higher Arcana (the twenty-two trump cards in a tarot deck) and quite a few in the Minor Arcana (ace to ten, plus four face cards) are portraits of Clemente's New York friends.

A transformation playing card (sometimes referred to as a transformation deck when assembled into a complete set) is a type of playing card where an artist incorporates the pips of the non-face cards into an artistic design.