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Fifty-two slips of paper that have bankrupted kings and built Vegas.
means Small rectangular pieces of stiff paper or thin card, marked with numbers, suits, or symbols, used for games, gambling, or fortune-telling.
from From the Old French 'carte,' itself from Latin 'charta' meaning a leaf of papyrus or paper, which traces back to the Greek 'khartes,' a sheet for writing. The same root branched off into 'chart,' 'charter,' and even 'cartoon.' Playing cards themselves traveled west from China through the Islamic world, reaching Europe in the late Middle Ages — and the word for the paper followed the game wherever it spread.
- hidden royals
- Court figures echo real medieval kings and queens
- calendar math
- 52 cards, 4 suits, 13 ranks mirror the year
- old paper
- Playing cards predate the printing press
- war machine
- Decks were once used as wartime escape maps
- house odds
- The deck always favors whoever owns the table
for instance
pokemon base set charizard — sold for $303,000 at auction in 2020, one of the most valuable trading cards ever