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What countries use Cavalier when #PlayingCards? Noticed that a playing card suit in #Unicode has four face cards . In the US, the face #cards are Jack, Queen, King. In some countries, the face cards are Jack, Cavalier, King. I don't think anyone uses all four.

I bought a #K6T deck (thegamecrafter·com/games/k6t) last year. Six suits, in six different colors: Hearts, Diamonds; Spades, Clubs; Stars, Moons. Twenty cards per suit. A suit runs

0·1·2·3·4·5·6·7·8·9·10·11·12·J·C·B·T·Q·K·A.

That's Zero for Joker, the Ace _not_ doing double duty as One, and six faceless "court" cards – Jack, Cavalier, Bishop, Tower, Queen, King – represented by chess pieces. (You can buy an extension pack with traditional face cards.)

I bought the #Dozenal extension pack instead. It replaces "ten, eleven, twelve" with "dek, el, dō" and continues with dō-one (dozen-plus-one) through two-dō (two dozen).

That's ninety more cards, though since there's overlap (10·11·12 = X·E·10), the total is 120+90-18=192, 186 without Jokers. Not that I play often, maybe a quarterly game of solitaire while listening to an audioplay. (Dek and el characters, if your typeface is up for it: ↊↋.)

My #K6T deck of #PlayingCards and the #Dozenal extension pack came in. The K6T has 120 cards in six suits: purple stars, blue moons, green clubs, orange diamonds, red hearts, and black spades. Each suit starts with a 0 (joker) and 1 (not ‘ace’), the usual 2-10, and an added 11 and 12; each ends with ace. There are six court #cards: Jack (pawn), Cavalier (knight), Bishop, Tower (rook), Queen, King. (I remember the order as “JaCoB The QuicK”.)

I also got the 90-card dozenal extension pack, which adds fifteen cards per suit. It replaces ‘ten’ with ‘dek’ (turned-2), ‘eleven’ with ‘el’ (turned-3), then adds do (10=dozen; rhymes with ‘no’), then do one, do two, …. do dek, do el, two do (two dozen).

The suits can be divided into footed (spades, clubs, moons) versus non-footed (diamonds, hearts, stars) trios, or in “traditional” couples (spades & clubs, hearts & diamonds, moons & stars), even though the color of diamonds and clubs have changed, and the other pair is new. (I think “footed” moons is a bit odd, personally, but can’t really think of a different themed pair, one of which has a natural “foot”.)

The #deck is designed by Pionissimo and I got it from The Game Crafter website.