WTF is the rank of suits?

[Paulie Walnuts]

At the home game tonight the big discussion was the order in which the suits are ranked. Spades are first was the general agreement. How does it go off from there? Money is on the line educated guesses only please.

[Heavens_Myst]

a good suit should always be clean

[Zagga]

Spades, then hearts always

clubs and diamonds are at the bottum but it differs per region in wich order

[BigMac1082]

its reverse alphabetical order

[Lordy]

spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs I think...

[le_chinois]

spades hearts clubs diamonds

black red black red...

edit: from wikipedia:

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Ordering suits

Whist-style rules generally prevent the necessity of determining which of two cards of different suits has higher value, because a card played on a card of a different suit either automatically wins or automatically loses depending on whether the new card is a trump. However, some card games also need to make a definition of which suit is intrinsically the most valuable. An example of this is in auction games such as bridge, where if one player bids to make some number of heart tricks and another bids to make the same number of diamond tricks, there must be a mechanism to determine which takes precedence.

As there is no truly standard way to order the four suits, each game that needs to do so has its own convention; however, the ubiquity of bridge has gone some way to make its ordering a de facto standard. Typical orderings of suits include (from highest to lowest):

* Bridge: spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs (for bidding and scoring);
* Five Hundred: hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades (for bidding and scoring);
* Ninety-nine: clubs, hearts, spades, diamonds (supposedly mnemonic as they have respectively 3, 2, 1, 0 lobes; see article for how this scoring is used);
* Skat: clubs, spades, hearts, diamonds (for bidding and to determine which Jack beats which in play);
* Big Two and occasionally in poker: spades, hearts, clubs, diamonds (alternates by color).


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[thesilkworm]

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spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs I think...

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This is correct.

Edit: Well, it is for poker anyway.

[HeroInBlack]

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spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs I think...

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This is correct.

Edit: Well, it is for poker anyway.

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[thesilkworm]

In Stud, if I am dealt 2[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] and you are dealt 2[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], I am bringing in. Clubs are considered to be the 'lowest' ranked suit for this purpose, and it's the only time I can think of it being relevant in poker.

[inferno]

diamonds, clubs, hearths, spades in big2