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spoil five  

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  • Spoil Five is a card game played with a traditional 52-card deck. Irish in origin, there may be some significance in the fact that the Gaelic word for “five” and “trick” is the same: cuig. [Source: Encyclopedia of Play in Today's Society; Spoil Five]

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