14 Facts About Playing cards

Playing cards card is a piece of specially prepared card stock, heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin plastic that is marked with distinguishing motifs.

Playing cards are typically palm-sized for convenient handling, and usually are sold together in a set as a deck of cards or pack of cards.

Tarot cards are an old genre of playing card that is still very popular in France, central and Eastern Europe and Italy.

Near complete pack of Mamluk playing cards dating to the 15th century and of similar appearance to the fragments above was discovered by Leo Aryeh Mayer in the Topkapi Palace, Istanbul, in 1939.

The Topkapi pack originally contained 52 Playing cards comprising four suits: polo-sticks, coins, swords, and cups.

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Mamluk court Playing cards showed abstract designs or calligraphy not depicting persons possibly due to religious proscription in Sunni Islam, though they did bear the ranks on the Playing cards.

Export of these Playing cards, ceased after the fall of the Mamluks in the 16th century.

Playing cards even competed with devotional images as the most common uses for woodcuts in this period.

Packs of 56 Playing cards containing in each suit a king, queen, knight, and knave were once common in the 15th century.

In Great Britain, the pack with reversible court Playing cards was patented in 1799 by Edmund Ludlow and Ann Wilcox.

The need to hide wear and tear and to discourage writing on the back led Playing cards to have designs, pictures, photos, or advertising on the reverse.

Contemporary playing cards are grouped into three broad categories based on the suits they use: French, Latin, and Germanic.

Typically, playing cards have indices printed in the upper-left and lower-right corners.

The Playing cards sold to the public are altered, either by cutting the deck's corners or by punching a hole in the deck, to prevent these Playing cards from being used in the casino to cheat.