Thus a player holding a three and a ten (or court card) is considered to have three only; a player holding two tens and a five counts five only.
In drawing to a pair, if one of the indifferent cards should be an ace or court card, this card should be retained, and only the other two exchanged.
If it be a one, two, three, or anything but a court card, he continues putting down one after another, until at last he turns up a court card.
Should no player have either a court card or a ten, the elder hand scores the point for game.
It sometimes happens that one of the two cards given in the first instance to a player is an ace, and the other a ten, or a court card.
Sometimes it happens that a second player in paying puts down a court card, and the third player in paying him puts down another, and so on, until perhaps the fourth or fifth player actually gets the cards in the end.
If, however, in playing for a court card, one of the players puts down another court card, then his neighbor must pay him, and he takes the whole pack instead of the previous player.
Should no player have either a court card or a ten, the player next to the dealer scores the point for the game.
Even when there are three cards on the cushion which make the required sum, these cards cannot be removed unless the cushion contains a court card to crown them.
They must in that case remain in their places until a court card appears on the cushion.
Should there be no court card, the combination cannot be made (Rule III).
Two trumps and three cards of one plain suit should not be played unless the plain suit is headed by a court card.
One trump, queen of one suit, and knave guarded of another should not be played unless the queen is also guarded, or the card of the fourth suit is a court card.
One trump and a tierce major is too weak, unless the fifth card is a court card.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "court card" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
