The Standard's journalism is supported by our ... enjoy all at once), we have Ancient China to thank for the gift of playing cards. The Tang Dynasty invented the earliest prototype way back ...

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“Modern playing card games are so pervasive in almost every culture in the world that I think there is something special about standard playing cards themselves as a medium for emergent game ...

Nintendo might be synonymous with video games today, but the company actually got its start as a playing card company. Founded in 1889, Nintendo originally produced Hanafuda--a type of card used ...

The composition and design of playing card decks varied with time and locale (particularly the number of cards in a deck), but the inclusion of both numbered cards and court cards (or "royals ...