Italian/Spanish Playing Cards
John Coxon
called Cripple Mr Onion on the internet ( http://jump.to/cmo ) and it says
it needs both a pack of 52 English playing cards (clubs, spades, diamonds,
hearts) and a pack of 52 Italian/Spanish playing cards (staves, swords,
coins, cups). Can anyone tell me where I might be able to find a pack of
these playing cards? I want a standard size of card really, according to
the game's rules.
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Iain Cheyne
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> Can anyone tell me where I might be able to find a pack of
> these playing cards?
http://www.playingcardsales.co.uk
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Nick Wedd
<rogue_n...@hotmail.com> writes
>Hi, I am a fan of Terry Pratchett and I recently found the rules to a
>game called Cripple Mr Onion on the internet ( http://jump.to/cmo ) and
>it says it needs both a pack of 52 English playing cards (clubs,
>spades, diamonds, hearts) and a pack of 52 Italian/Spanish playing
>cards (staves, swords, coins, cups). Can anyone tell me where I might
>be able to find a pack of these playing cards? I want a standard size
>of card really, according to the game's rules.
Spanish-suited packs have 48 cards, Italian-suited ones usually have 40.
Also, Spanish-suited and Italian-suited packs are generally longer or
narrower than standard French-suited packs (as used for bridge). 52-card
regional Italian packs are used in north-eastern Italy, but the only
such pack that I can find a picture of
(http://www.geocities.com/thanoscardgames/) is also narrower in shape
than bridge cards. So if you will need to shuffle your two packs
together, you would probably do best to get two bridge packs, and mark
one of them somehow.
Nick
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John McLeod
>Spanish-suited packs have 48 cards, Italian-suited ones usually have
>40.
Although traditionally Spanish packs don't have more than 48 cards,
52-card Spanish suited packs do exist nowadays. I think they are made
for people who wish to play poker and prefer Spanish suits. I have a
pack here with 55 cards (including 3 jokers) labelled "Poker Espagnol".
The box also says "Maestros Maiperos Espanoles, S.L.", "MOD. ARO" and on
the ace of coins, where you find "Heraclio Fournier, Vitoria" on
Fournier cards, this one says "Maestros Naiperos, Azahar". The
dimensions are about the same as those of American poker cards.
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