Editing Pip (counting) (section)

==Playing cards==
[[File:Poker-sm-246-9c.png|upright|thumb|The Nine of Clubs with nine pips and two corner index pips.]]

In [[playing cards]], pips are small symbols on the front side of the cards that determine the [[Suit (cards)|suit]] of the card and its rank. For example, a [[standard 52-card deck]] consists of four suits of thirteen cards each: spades, hearts, clubs, and diamonds. Each suit contains three [[face cards]] – the jack, queen, and king. The remaining ten cards are called pip cards and are numbered from one to ten. (The "one" is almost always changed to "[[ace]]" and often is the highest card in many games, followed by the face cards.) Each pip card consists of an encoding in the top left-hand corner (and, because the card is also inverted upon itself, the lower right-hand corner) which tells the card-holder the value of the card. In Europe, it is more common to have corner indices on all four corners which lets left-handed players fan their cards more comfortably. The center of the card contains pips representing the suit. The number of pips corresponds with the number of the card, and the arrangement of the pips is generally the same from deck to deck.

Pip cards are also known as numerals or [[numeral card]]s.

In [[point-trick game]]s where cards often score their value in pips (or equivalent if they are court cards e.g. a King may be worth 13), [[card point]]s are sometimes referred to as pips.

Many [[French-suited packs]] derived from the [[French-suited playing cards#English pattern|English pattern]] contain a variation on the pip style for the [[Ace of spades]], often consisting of an especially large pip or even a representative image, along with information about the deck's manufacturer, originally to display the [[stamp duty]]. This is also the case for the [[Ace of clubs]] in the [[French-suited playing cards#Paris pattern|Paris pattern]] and the [[Ace of diamonds]] in the [[French-suited playing cards#Russian pattern|Russian pattern]]. For [[German-suited playing cards]], the deuce of hearts was used for this purpose, and for [[Latin-suited playing cards]], the ace of coins was used.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Special Pips for cards displaying stamp duty
|-
!English!!Paris!!Russian!!German!!Latin
|-
|[[File:Ace of spades.svg|75px]]
|{{card|club|A|pattern=French}}
|{{card|diamond|A|pattern=Russian}}
|{{card|heart|D|pattern=German}}
|{{card|coin|A|pattern=Italian}}
|}

Historically German pips are generally different from the pips used in France and England, and the latter dates from at least the fourteenth century CE.<ref>Gleadow, Rupert; et al. Miller, Dean; ed. (2015). [[Basil Rakoczi|Rakoczi, Basil Ivan]]. "Cards", ''Prophets and Prophecy: Predicting the Future'', p.28-9. 'Man, Myth, and Magic' series. Cavendash Square Publishing. {{ISBN|978-1-62712-675-5}}.</ref>