🂡 Playing cards quiz
How well do you know a deck of cards? Ten questions to find out. Grab a deck and check!
Getting the questions ready…
The answers, and why
- How many cards are in a deck, without the jokers? 52. Four suits of thirteen cards: 52.
- How many suits are there? Four. Hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades.
- Which two suits are red? Hearts and diamonds. Hearts and diamonds are red; clubs and spades are black.
- How many cards are in each suit? Thirteen. Ace, 2 to 10, jack, queen and king.
- Which of these is a face card? The king. The jack, queen and king are the face cards: they have faces on them.
- How many face cards are in a deck? Twelve. Three face cards in each of four suits: twelve.
- Which suit looks like a three-leaf clover? Clubs. The club symbol looks like a clover leaf.
- How many jokers come in most decks? Two. Most decks have two jokers, used in some games and left out of others.
- In many games, the ace can be... High or low. Depending on the game, an ace counts as 1 or above the king.
- What colour are spades? Black. Spades and clubs are the black suits.