We have previously posted about Quintract Bridge (with five suits) and the Liechtenstein Pattern (also with five suits). Now it is the turn of Yankee Notions, an American original. Four new suits—Stars, Eagles, Flags and Crests—providing an American Nativist aura to the set, with a Faces suit providing trump duties (perhaps inspired by the Tarock decks). There were no court cards: there was a Zero, or Z card at the apex of each suit.   16 new or adapted games were described

From the patents, an elegant minimalist set of French pattern playing cards: Arrange by rank, to show the styles In April of 1939, John Caldwell Hampshire (a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing in New York) was granted a patent for a New, Original, and Ornamental design for a Deck of Playing Cards. They are an elegant design, with only the symbol in the centre of the card, and the rank marked by the index. Additionally, the Ace, Jack, Queen, and King had bars in th

On November 23, 1902, the Los Angeles Times published a detailed description of a new card game that had been "introduced into Pasadena"...

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

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

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

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:...

On the 24th of January, 1928, Ototaro N. Yamamoto of San Gabriel CA, a flower raiser by profession, patented a new version of Hanafuda,...