Cards

Video Broadcast on October 1, 2020

Different kinds of Cards

• ID : for identification
• Credit Card
• Debit Card
• Cash Card
• Prepaid Card
• Greeting Card
• Playing Cards

Standard Deck

• 52 cards
• Jokers / Wild Cards

Four Suits

• May signify the four seasons or the four quarters of a year
• Usually called Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts and Spades
  (Implicit ordering of the suits in some games such as Bridge)

13 cards in a Suit : may signify the number of weeks in a season or quarter

52 cards in a Deck : may signify the number of weeks in a year

2 colors

• Usually Black and Red
• May signify two-valued concepts (e.g Ying and Yang)

• Model for Deque (Double Ended Queue)
• Data structure
• Items can be added to both ends of a Deque, and can be retrieved from both ends.
• With restrictions, a Deque can be used as FIFO (First In First Out) Queue and LIFO (Last In First Out) Stack.

Bridge

• Card Game requiring intellect, communication and finesse.
• Championships
• Ivan Lee (Khin Maung Oo, M69) is a Life Time Platinum in Bridge (after completing Bronze, Silver and Gold).

Solitaire

• Collection of Card Games that can be played by a person.
• May be played on a computer.
• I spent a lot of time (several months) to earn and defend “Daily Challenge” title (five games of varying complexity every day for the whole month).

Card Games (involving betting)

• Games in Myanmar
  (e.g Koe Mee and variants)
• Casino
  (e.g Black Jack, Poker and variants)
• Computers and Online