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=== Cards === The pack consists of 32 cards. Many modern packs use the [[French-suited playing cards|French pack]] consisting of an [[ace]] (''Ass''), [[King (playing card)|king]] (''König''), [[Queen (playing card)|queen]] (''Dame''), [[Jack (playing card)|jack]] (''Bube''), [[pip cards|10, 9, 8 and 7]] in all four suits (clubs {{clubs}}, spades {{spades}}, hearts {{hearts}} and diamonds {{diamonds}}). Some players in Eastern and Southern Germany and [[Austria]] prefer traditional German packs with suits of [[Acorns (card suit)|acorns]] {{acorns}}, [[Leaves (card suit)|leaves]] {{leaves}}, [[Hearts (card suit)|hearts]] {{german Hearts}} and [[Bells (card suit)|bells]] {{bell}}, and card values of [[Deuce (playing card)|deuce (''Daus'')]], king (''König''), [[Ober (playing card)|''Ober'']], [[Unter (playing card)|''Unter'']], 10, 9, 8, and 7 in all four suits.<ref>{{cite web|author=John McLeod|url=http://www.pagat.com/class/german.html|title=Games played with German suited cards|publisher=pagat.com/|access-date=2010-11-25}}</ref> Until recently in [[Saxony]] and [[Thuringia]], for example, [[German-suited playing cards|German-suited packs]] were used almost exclusively. By contrast, regions of the former West Germany had adopted a French-suited pack. Since [[German reunification]], a compromise ''Turnierbild'' ("Tournament Style") pack is used in tournaments that uses the shapes of the French suits but with corresponding German suit colors, green spades {{cards|s|spades_color=green}} imitating leaves and gold diamonds {{cards|d|diamonds_color=orange}} imitating bells.<ref name=pcg1>{{cite web|author=A. Pollett|url=http://playingcards.freewebpages.org/cards19.htm|title=Shapes, Sizes and Colors|publisher=a_pollett.tripod.com/|access-date=2010-04-13|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221095404/http://playingcards.freewebpages.org/cards19.htm|archive-date=21 February 2009|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The choice of pack does not affect the rules.
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