[Kde-games-devel] Unify pixmap caching across card games

[Luciano Montanaro]

Il Wednesday 09 January 2008 03:54:24 Ian Wadham ha scritto:
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 11:37 am, Luciano Montanaro wrote:
> > So "Two" is the common name of the card, outside the US?
>
> Yes.  AFAIK (correct me if I am wrong) "two" is understood and used
> *inside* the USA also.  I think "deuce" may be poker tech-talk, as
> in: "This game is seven card stud.  One-eyed jacks and short-
> sworded kings are wild" ... :-)  I used to play poker with some
> American computer engineers circa 1966 ...

Ok, so no need to be obscure in our enum. 

>
> Interesting stuff!  How about a KDE Games multicultural section?
>

I'd like to contribute programming a KDE program for multiplayer card games.
I actually wanted to start with the Cirulla, a variaton of the Scopa 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopa),
but there are many that can be implemented easily, once the first is finished.

I think it would be interesting to aggregate games from other countries too. A 
sort of "card games interactive museum".

A smaller scale project could be augmenting KPat with one or more subgames. I 
know a few Italian solitaires that could be fun to program and to play.

> According to the Wiki article quoted above, the international deck was
> invented *before* Tarot. 

Well, I am probably wrong, then. But the suits tarots cards are the same used 
in many Italian decks. Tarots seem to be an Italian invention, however.  

Looks like card games was another Chinese invention. Actually Mah-jong tiles 
and playing card are quiet similar an can be used to play many games.

Ciao!

Luciano