Queen of spades

For other uses, see Queen of spades (disambiguation).
Q♠ in a standard deck
Pallas, Q♠ in the Paris pattern[1][2]
Q♠ in a Russian deck
Q♠ from 19th-century tarock deck

The queen of spades (Q♠) is a face card in decks of French-suited playing cards and Tarot, depicting a queen of the spades (♠) suit and associated with the Greek goddess Pallas. In Old Maid, several games of the Hearts family, and some variants of poker, it has a special function.

  1. ^ "The Four King Truth" at the Urban Legends Reference Pages
  2. ^ Who are the court figures? at the International Playing-Card Society. Retrieved 22 October 2016.