Queen (playing card)

Queen cards of all four suits in the Rouennais pattern

The Queen is a playing card with a picture of a woman on it. It is worth 15 when playing cards. In many European languages, the King and Queen begin with the same letter so the latter is often called Dame (Lady) or variations thereof. In French playing cards, the usual rank of a queen is between the King and the Jack. In tarot decks, it outranks the Knight which in turn outranks the Jack.

In the Paris pattern, each court card is identified as a particular historical or mythological personage as follows:^[1][2]

Queens in the Paris pattern (portrait officiel)

Hearts	Diamonds	Spades	Clubs
Judith, Biblical figure	Rachel, Biblical figure	Pallas, another name for the goddess Athena	Argine, an anagram of Regina (Latin for "queen")

In the game of Hearts, the Queen of Spades is the major card to avoid, and is called a variety of unsavoury names.

See also

• List of poker hand nicknames
• "The Queen of Spades", a short story by Alexander Pushkin
• The Queen of Spades, an opera by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky based on Pushkin's story
• Queen of Spades, the title used by Chibodee Crocket in the 1994 anime Mobile Fighter G Gundam
• The Queen of Hearts, a character from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Heart Queen, Karen Mizuki's codename in JAKQ Dengekitai.
• "Queen of Hearts", a Hank DeVito-written 1979 song by Dave Edmunds; the international hit version was released in 1981 by Juice Newton.
• Queen of Hearts, a BBC TV play of 1985
• Marsha, Queen of Diamonds, a villain from the 1960s Batman TV series played by Carolyn Jones.
• Queen of Clubs, a 1966 Greek film
• Queen of Clubs: Ruby, Onyx and Diamond Editions, a remix album trilogy featuring singer-songwriter Nadia Ali as the Queen of Clubs
• Three-card Monte

References

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