In the official skat tournament deck, spades are green, assuming the color of their German-deck equivalent.

They form one of the two major suits in bridge (with hearts). The spade symbol is a very stylized spearhead shape, pointing upwards, the bottom widening into two arcs of a circle and sweeping towards the centre to then form a sort of foot. In Switzerland, the suit is known as Schuufle ('shovel') and in many German regions, e.g., the Rhineland, as Schüppe/ Schippe ('shovel'). It corresponds to the suit of leaves ( Laub, Grün, Schippen or, in Bavaria, Gras) in the German-suited playing cards. The French name for this suit, Pique ('pike'), meant, in the 14th century, a weapon formed by an iron spike placed at the end of a pike. In skat and similar games, it is the second-highest suit. In bridge, spades rank as the highest suit. It symbolises the pike or halberd, two medieval weapons. It has the same shape as the leaf symbol in German-suited playing cards but its appearance is more akin to that of an upside down black heart with a stalk at its base. Spades ( ) ( French: Pique) is one of the four playing card suits in the standard French-suited playing cards. Element of French playing card decks Spades

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