Do four polo sticks beat four cups?

Playing cards have not always had the current four suits (spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs). One of the earliest surviving decks, the Malmuk pack from Egypt in the 15^th century, had suits of cups, coins, swords, and polo sticks. The court cards were King, Lieutenant and Second Lieutenant, and the game was called Nã’ib, the game of lieutenants. The name for playing cards in Spain today is naipes. Cups were worth more than polo sticks.