Poker: Why is King Size a clown?

The reason why the king of cards is a clown

1. In the process of playing cards, the clown card can replace any card. Due to the emergence of this "universal card", it has really become a universal card over time, which is the largest card.

2. "Philosophical" reason: power is only temporary, and joy is eternal. The king represents power and the clown symbolizes joy, so the clown card is the biggest.

3. Tarot card divination effect, clown card is the biggest, which is great luck.

Two clowns represent the sun and the moon, and the king is no taller than the sun, the moon and the stars.

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The Origin and Connotation of Clown Card

JOKER was invented in America and sent back to Europe with poker. The earliest number of playing cards varied from place to place. 78 in Italy, 32 in Germany, 40 in Spain and 52 in France. However, what later became an international playing card was 52 cards per deck, plus two wild cards (also known as kings or children) and 54 * * *.

54 playing cards, which means there are 52 weeks in a year. Two clown cards represent the sun and Xiao Wang represents the moon. Peach, heart, square and plum represent spring, summer, autumn and winter. The red card represents the day and the black card represents the night; Every season, 13 weeks, the number of cards in each set of poker is exactly 13.

The sum of the points of 52 cards is 364, plus Xiao Wang's points, it is 365, which is the same as the average number of days in a year; If you add a little more kings, it happens to be the number of days in a leap year. K, Q, J***, a total of 12 cards, indicating that there are 12 months in a year, and the sun passes through 12 constellations in a year.

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