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Two Down - Heads'n'Tails with cards
Flipping coins for heads or tails can be seen as a two-value version of Rock Paper Scissors, and so we can bring the design logic of our...

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May 6, 20252 min read


Kip - Two-Up Cards
This is a Ken game based on the traditional Australian gambling game of Two-Up. Following the enthusiastic reception of our Two Down...

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May 6, 20252 min read


Kingdom Ken
This is a game based on a problem in a 1970s textbook. It is a ken game (rock-paper-scissors game) of deceptive complexity. It has only...

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May 5, 20256 min read


Matching Owls - Heads'n'Tails with cards
This is a version of our coin-tossing Ken game, Two Down, based on the silver tetradrachm, first minted around 510 BCE, that featured the...

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May 5, 20252 min read


Janken Cards
In 2005, the prestigious auction houses Sotheby's and Christie's found themselves in a peculiar situation. Both wanted the rights to...

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May 5, 20255 min read


The Wonderglass Pack: Playing Cards with Asymmetrical Color Relationships
The Wonderglass Pack is a specialized set of playing cards featuring an asymmetrical color-passing system that creates unique gameplay...

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Apr 19, 20254 min read


Flip Flap Feasel: A Lost Game from 1902 Pasadena
On November 23, 1902, the Los Angeles Times published a detailed description of a new card game that had been "introduced into Pasadena"...

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Apr 17, 20259 min read


Euclid: A Mathematical Card Game from 1904
On the 3rd of December, 1904, The Indianapolis News published a brief notice about a new card game called "Euclid," invented by E. J....

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Apr 17, 20253 min read


Court Circular -Lewis Carroll's Card Game
On January 16, 1860, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson—better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll—created a unique card game that he called "Court...

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Apr 17, 20258 min read


Toutatout - the lost Bridge
In the spring of 1911, a new card game called "Tootatoo" (or "Tout Atout" in its more elegant French form, meaning "All Trumps") burst...

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Apr 17, 20256 min read


Roslyn: Roulette with cards
On the 22nd of November, 1928, the New York Leader reported on a new card game called "Card Roulette" that had been introduced by...

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Apr 16, 20254 min read


Kopa - a game of 60 cards
Kopa is a courtless* card game of 60 cards, in 4 suits, numbered 1 to 15. The four suits are named for mediaeval heraldic tinctures:...

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Apr 16, 20258 min read


Reym, a lost Argentinian game
Our purpose is recovery and creation of traditional card games. Sometimes, it is a game that was once popular and is forgotten. Other...

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Apr 16, 20256 min read


Allez Honours, or Dimensional Whist
In 1929, Harry S. Abell of McLean, Virginia, patented an extraordinary card game to be played in 3 dimensions. He called it Allez...

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Apr 15, 20256 min read


Diamantina cards
We have made packs of diamond shaped cards designed to enable new kinds of 2-dimensional card play. Here is the standard pack with...

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Apr 15, 202512 min read


Synthesis - a patented word-making game
In 1881, Charles Pierre Goldey patented a game that he had invented, based on the nature of the formation of words from three kinds of...

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Feb 23, 202524 min read


My Lady's Garden - an Edwardian circular horticultural card game
In 1906, Florence Annie Barker of "The Oaks", Huddersfield Road, Mirfield, Yorks patented a game of gardens and gardeners. Six suits of 7...

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Jan 17, 20254 min read


Moonlight: a lunar calendar in a deck of circular cards
The standard whist deck has 52 cards in 4 suits: this is said to be symbolic: one card for each week of the year, and a suit for each...

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Jan 16, 20259 min read


A completion: El Lissitzky's 66
This is our completion of a set of cards prefigured by El Lissitzky (1890-1941) in a series of collage paintings from the 1920s:...

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Jan 14, 20253 min read


Aesthetic No.2 & No. 3, Meunier Completions
We have created some cards based on Henri Meunier's Jeu de Cartes Estétique Nº1 of 1900, a Piquet deck commissioned as advertising for...

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Jan 8, 20253 min read
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