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n. (face card English)
Usage examples of "face cards".
Thus, face cards, which would normally be counted as ten, were counted as zero.
If he had one of the face cards in the hole, he would have seventeen.
Well say, here we go, I brought along my own deck, just in case, has something in it other than face cards—.
The deck was marked to indicate face cards and he had two aces in a sleeve holdout, so there was little to worry about.
She seemed to have an ace of labor and an ace of management, together with three face cards in love and death, and an assortment of minor management cards.
For his part, Robin played inexpertly, often tossing out trumps when there was no call and surrendering face cards with little logic.
The other pot, the sabacc pot, is the game pot, and can only be won in two wayswith a pure sabaccthat is, card-chips totaling exactly twenty-three, or an idiot~ array, consisting of one of the Idiot face cards, plus a two, and a threeliterally, 23--of any suit.