"Six Tigers" Cards (六虎牌) are traditional playing cards of the Hakka minority in China. They are arranged into four ranked suits with cards numbered from one to nine inclusive. Extra joker-like cards are optionally attached; any given deck may have from 0 to 5 of these extras (of which only two ever appear to be used in any published sets of rules). The games played with these cards tend to be multi-trick games for three to four people; in these games when there's a fourth that person doesn't actively play but only deals and is active in the ensuing payouts. The deal changes each round depending on who won the previous. Most cards of this variety have only the characters for suit and number (in Hakka traditional form, not normal Chinese characters) although some larger, more elaborate decks may have illustrations.

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