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Playing Card Chat ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦ => Playing Card Plethora => Topic started by: Don Boyer on August 03, 2013, 05:06:13 AM
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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/895838115/deck-of-proverbs-playing-cards
Nothing says poker like cards with...proverbs?
The more Christian/Catholic-minded on KS will probably get a kick out of these. But the question is, are there enough such folks on KS in the first place?
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I find the idea interesting. I would not use these for poker but more if I was trying to help kids memorize bible verses. Using proverbs is interesting. I most likely will not pledge though.
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"Thou shalt not gamble"
Errrmmmm..........
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"Thou shalt not gamble"
Errrmmmm..........
Funny you should mention that. The Parker Brothers card game Rook was actually created by a religious man who wanted a card game for his children but of a different design than those used for gambling - a more wholesome deck. A novelty deck like that today would be hitting the market with two strikes against it.
So I'm guessing using the standard 52-card Anglo-American format was adequate to this man's needs, especially since there are far more non-gambling games than ones directly involving wagering. I would guess he's a Mormon, seeing as how he wants to get the deck translated into other languages and distributed to missionaries for redistribution to the people to whom they're proselytizing. At a minimum, he's a member of some kind of Christian sect that does missionary work.