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Playing cards and Dominion

Image via Wikipedia Here's something geeky: an inventory of my playing cards. Tarock (54 cards) Wiener Veduten Tarock (Piatnik gift set w/ booklet) Nr. 1934 (Piatnik) Nr. 1936 (Piatnik) Das Constitutions Tarock (Piatnik) Cego (ASS) Grazer Tarock (Piatnik) Allerfeinste Kaffeehaus...

Posted by Mikko on December 31, 2009 9:23 PM

Bezique

Breaking the silence... Yesterday I had my first game session since the birth of our #2, Anni. Olli came to visit in the evening for hour or so. I recently bought a copy of David Parlett's The Penguin Book of...

Posted by Mikko on February 19, 2009 8:05 PM

Playing-card review 6: Wilhelm Tell cards

Wilhelm Tell cards are fairly common in the Central and Eastern Europe: Hungary, Austria, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Slovakia, western Romania and southern Tyrol. It is a rather beautiful pattern, full of interesting details. The pack has the German...

Posted by Mikko on August 16, 2008 7:47 PM

Playing-card review 6: Piatnik Tarocks

Piatnik makes some very beautiful 54-card Austrian-style Tarock packs with French suits . The first of my playing-card reviews covered one of them; here are the rest. Start with that review, because the packs are actually all exactly the same...

Posted by Mikko on June 29, 2008 12:56 PM

Playing-card review 5: Tarock and Schafkopf

ASS Tarock Schafkopf Club and Piatnik Schafkopf Tarock (no. 182211). These packs (ASS on left, Piatnik on right) have the same Bayerisches Bild pattern with 36 cards. The Bavarian pattern has suits of acorns (Eichel), leaves (Graß), hearts (Herz)...

Posted by Mikko on June 18, 2008 6:04 PM

Playing-card review 4: Piacentine and Napoletane by Modiano and Dal Negro

This time I'm taking a look at some Italian regional packs. I happen to have two copies of the Piacentine pack by different makers, which offers some comparison possibilities. Italy has 16 different regional packs, which are divided to four...

Posted by Mikko on May 25, 2008 7:16 PM

More playing-cards

Modiano was kind enough to send me some sample packs, so more playing-card reviews are coming up!...

Posted by Mikko on May 14, 2008 6:54 PM

Playing-card review 3: Doppelkopf packs by ASS and Piatnik

This time I'm taking a look at some Doppelkopf packs. These packs have 48 cards, but they are actually made of two 24-card packs. Thus, the packs have A, K, Q, J, 10, 9 in each suit twice. Doppelkopf is...

Posted by Mikko on May 12, 2008 12:22 PM

Cards from Piatnik

I have good news for those of you who have enjoyed my playing-card reviews: I just placed an order to Piatnik, I'm getting 17 of their packs. Tarock, mostly, but also several different European regional packs. You see, I asked...

Posted by Mikko on May 10, 2008 11:45 AM

Playing-card review 2: Modiano Tarocco Siciliano, Noblet Tarot de Marseille

This time I'm taking a look at some Tarot packs that are perhaps better suited for enjoyment as art, not as playing-cards. Modiano Tarocco Siciliano. The first thing one notices is the small size. The cards are as wide as...

Posted by Mikko on May 2, 2008 8:25 PM

Playing-card review 1: Piatnik 1935, Carta Mundi Versailles

As a new feature I'm going to review playing-cards. There are quite a few different packs available and finding information about them is hard. So, here's something and more to come, especially if I get any encouragement. Piatnik Tarock 54...

Posted by Mikko on April 30, 2008 6:43 PM

Start of a collection

I got two shipments of playing cards today, and look, I have a start of a playing card collection. I ordered a various bunch of different decks, some for use, some for decoration. Here's what I have: Swedish Öbergs cards....

Posted by Mikko on August 30, 2007 7:09 PM