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traditional deck

i love card games, and learning a new one is something is a really fun experience. while i love the uniqueness of different card games, and their design, art, packaging, etc (see icon representing the epistemic certainty of the linked pagehanafuda or icon representing the epistemic certainty of the linked pagestelle-scopa) - there is a special place for the games that you can play with the traditional 52-card deck. while there are so many well known games that use the traditional deck, there are many other ones that are lesser known. in particular, in [[game design]], it’s a common design challenge to retrofit an existing game to work within the context/cards of the traditional deck, or, invent a new game with those constraints.

recently, i started an attempt at this with icon representing the epistemic certainty of the linked pagesemiosphere, and in the process, came across a lot of other inspirations for different games that work with a traditional deck.


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2024.03.06