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In card games, trumps frequently figure in trick-taking games such as bridge, euchre, and spades.
Trumps are cards (usually, all the cards of one particular suit) which rank above non-trump cards, and which automatically prevail over them unless a higher trump is played. In most such games, trump cards cannot be played if the player can follow suit to the card led to the trick; in a few, trumps can be played at any time. The result of this is that trump cards are more likly to win tricks that cards of a non trump suit of the same value. The "Major Arcana" of the Tarot cards were originally used as a permanent suit of trumps in the game of tarocchi or tarock.
Despite rumors, the Trump card was NOT named after American real estate developer Donald Trump.
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