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• n  a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards
• n  the cardinal number that is the sum of six and one
• n  one of four playing cards in a deck with seven pips on the face

• Two years after hitting the wedding-date jackpot with lucky sevens, it's all eyes on the nines in Las Vegas for 9-9-09.
• There aren't many musicians who teach the concept of the number seven with a song about a gang of sevens invading a home and demanding cake.
• But the sevens have a lot of other significances as well.

• fantan
• parliament
• seven
• 7
• VII
• sevener
• heptad
• septet
• septenary
• seven-spot

News & Articles

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• Waisale Serevi’s mission to grow rugby brings U.S. national team to Seattle
  The Eagle Sevens are training here this week in preparations for the Rugby World Cup Sevens in Russia starting June 28. They scrimmaged against Serevi’s club team at Magnuson Park on Wednesday.
  June 14, 2013 - Seattle Times
• Rugby Sevens: A Great Spectator Sport Few People Actually See
  The International Olympic Committee (IOC) hardly tops any list of the most sensible organizations, but when it comes to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, they did one thing right, and in a big way - they added Rugby Sevens.
  June 13, 2013 - Forbes
• USA Rugby Will Bid to Host Sevens World Cup Tournament in 2018
  USA Rugby will bid to host the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens after the sport’s governing body said the tournament would be integrated into the Olympic Games cycle.
  June 13, 2013 - Bloomberg

Quotes

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• Jake White in Aljazeera.net
  The two biggest threats from Fiji are that they are sevens exponents, they can step and break tackles, and one-on-one they can beat most people,White said. "They probably also have a huge amount of confidence, so when you play a team like...
• Eric Mangini in USA Today
  I've really liked his inherent leadership, his presence and I thought he was very fluid in the passing game in seven-on-sevens and things like that,Mangini said. "The person we researched is the person who's here."
• Jacques Rogge in Independent
  Two years ago, sevens failed to win enough support to gain admittance for the London 2012 games, but Rogge said of the format: "The top is far broader in sevens, and you don't have the huge margins of victory you get in 15s - that would be good for...