Standard 52-card deck
A set of 52 playing cards divided into four suits of 13 cards each, typically including ranks from ace through king and excluding jokers.
French-suited playing cards: A family of playing cards using the suits clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades. The standard deck is the best-known 52-card member of this suit system.
Card shuffling: The process of rearranging a deck of cards to produce an unpredictable order. Shuffling changes the order of all 52 cards before play or dealing.
Playing card: A specially printed card used in games, divination, or other activities. The 52-card deck is one standardized form of the broader playing-card object.
Poker: A family of card games in which players wager on hands ranked by defined combinations. Poker uses the deck to create ranked five-card combinations and betting decisions.
Pinochle deck: A 48-card deck made from two copies of cards ranked nine through ace in four suits. Pinochle uses a reduced, duplicated deck rather than one card at each standard rank.
Playing card suit: A category that groups playing cards by a shared symbol, such as hearts or clubs. Four suits divide the deck into equal groups of thirteen cards.
Fisher–Yates shuffle: An algorithm that generates a uniformly random permutation by exchanging each position with a randomly selected remaining position. It provides a precise method for uniformly randomizing a deck.
Mamluk playing cards: A group of medieval Islamic playing cards whose suits included cups, coins, swords, and polo sticks. Their suit system is an early historical relative of European decks.
Bridge: A partnership trick-taking card game played with a standard deck and a bidding phase. Bridge deals all 52 cards among four players for partnership play.
Spanish-suited playing cards: Playing cards using suits of coins, cups, swords, and batons. Its suit symbols differ from the clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades of the standard deck.