Big Two
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| Origin | Chinese |
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| Alternative names | Big deuce, deuces, top dog, Chinese poker; dà lǎo èr; sho tai ti, chor dai di, co daai di, dai di; cap sa; ciniza, giappuniza; pusoy dos, chikicha, sikitcha, Filipino poker |
| Type | Shedding-type |
| Players | usually 4, but sometimes adapted to different numbers of players |
| Age range | all |
| Cards | 52, 13 per person with 4 players |
| Deck | Anglo-American |
| Card rank (highest to lowest) | 2 A K Q J 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3, ♠ (spades), ♥ (hearts, ♣ (clubs), ♦ (diamonds) |
| Playing time | 1–5 minutes |
| Related games | |
| Winner, dou di zhu | |
Big two (also known as deuces and various other names), is a card game of Chinese origin. It is similar to the games of president, crazy eights, bullshit, winner, and other shedding games. The game is very popular in East Asia and South East Asia, especially throughout China, Indonesia, Macau, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. It is played both casually and as a gambling game. It is usually played with two to four players, the entire deck being dealt out in either case (or sometimes with only 13 cards per player). The objective of the game is to be the first to get rid of all of one's cards. It is sometimes confused with tien len (a.k.a. thirteen); the two games differ primarily in that big two involves poker hands, while tien len does not.
This card game has many other names, including big deuce and top dog. In Mandarin Chinese it is 大老二, pinyin: dà lǎo èr; in Cantonese, 鋤大D, sho tai ti (among other transliterations, including chor dai di, and rendered in jyutping tonal notation as co4 daai6 di2), or simply dai di. It is cap sa in Hokkien, used in Indonesia. In Malta, it is often referred to as ciniza ('Chinese') or giappuniza ('Japanese'), due to its Asian origin. In English, it is sometimes ambiguously called Chinese poker because of its use of poker hands, but this name more often applies to another game of an entirely different nature.
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