Pip (counting)

Pips are small but easily countable items, such as the dots on dominoes and dice, or the symbols on a playing card that denote its suit and value.

For example, a standard 52-card deck consists of four suits of thirteen cards each: spades, hearts, clubs, and diamonds.

Many French-suited packs derived from the English pattern contain a variation on the pip style for the Ace of spades, often consisting of an especially large pip or even a representative image, along with information about the deck's manufacturer, originally to display the stamp duty.

For the common six-sided die, the sum of the pips on opposing faces traditionally adds up to seven.

Domino sets having more pips on one half of the tile allow the game to be played by more players.