Six-Suited Card Decks
Nathan Bruinooge
the traditional four plus I don't even remember what the other
two were. I DO remember that we cooked up a Skat-variant we could
play with 8 people using 6 suits that was loads of fun.
I have two questions:
Are there any 'official' games for six-suited decks of cards? Does
anyone know of any?
Where the HECK could I find, order, access a six-suited deck of cards?
Cheers,
Nate
nat...@cais.com
Judson Cohan
various game rules (including poker and bridge) are available from a
company called Secobra in Texas. When I dig up my cards, I'll post the
address.
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Doug Yanega
> The other suits are rackets and whells, and they're blue. The decks and
> various game rules (including poker and bridge) are available from a
> company called Secobra in Texas. When I dig up my cards, I'll post the
> address.
That's "wheels", as in the wheels used to control the rudder of a ship
(the Ace of Wheels shows an ocean liner), and rackets are tennis rackets.
Obviously the connotation is that the wealthy and elite are the only
people who'd ever play with six suits. ;-)
(Myself, were I designing them, I'd like to use the shapes of Lucky Charms
marshmallows...yellow moons, pink hearts, green clovers, orange stars,
blue diamonds, and purple horseshoes) ;-)
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Kevin Maroney
Nathan Bruinooge <nat...@cais.com> wrote:
>I've seen only once before a playing card deck with SIX suits--
>the traditional four plus I don't even remember what the other
>two were. I DO remember that we cooked up a Skat-variant we could
>play with 8 people using 6 suits that was loads of fun.
Wayne Schmittberger suggested (in _New Rules for Classic Games_) making a
six-suited deck by taking two matching decks and defacing the red cards
as follows:
Draw arrows through the hearts to make the suit of "valentines"; drawn
crosses on the diamonds to make the suit of "kites".
He then recommends a six-suited bridge variant with six players.
Someone else mentioned the six-suited commercial deck which used Blue
Wheels and Rackets. Koplow distributes a five-suited deck with gold
stars; as I recall, tehy're pretty darn inexpensive.
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Brendan E. Molloy
> Where the HECK could I find, order, access a six-suited deck of cards?
Technically the Tarot deck has six suits:
14 Coins,
14 Cups,
14 Swords,
14 Batons/Clubs,
21 Trumps (picture suit),
1 Fool (similar to the modern Joker)
Brendan
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James A Key
One has 'eagles', which are green, and have to do with the military.
The other has some magazine order thing, haveing the 5th suit blue stars.
Not only would I like to get a hold of any 5+ suit decks, but also
6-hand 500 decks (with 11 12 & 13's). Any ideas?
-Dween
John Latala
>I've seen only once before a playing card deck with SIX suits--
>the traditional four plus I don't even remember what the other
>two were.
I've seen a number of six suited decks with the usual addition being a crown
and an anchor. I believe the crown and anchor is trademarked and/or under
copyright. Another deck I have added the crown and anchor but calls them
'hat' and 'hook'!
> I DO remember that we cooked up a Skat-variant we could
>play with 8 people using 6 suits that was loads of fun.
The six suited deck I currently have came with a little brochure that
described rules extensions to a popular number of games. This was usually
done so more people could play the game at the same time.
>Are there any 'official' games for six-suited decks of cards? Does
>anyone know of any?
As stated above I think somebody has a tradmark of the crown and anchor
and/or hat (red) and hook (black). I've also seen a deck that used geometric
shapes for the suits.
>Where the HECK could I find, order, access a six-suited deck of cards?
My six suited deck lists:
Empire Trading Card Company
P.O. Box 811
Cambridge, Ontario
Canada N1R 5W6
FAX (519) 621-1475
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William Reed
: I've seen only once before a playing card deck with SIX suits--
: the traditional four plus I don't even remember what the other
: play with 8 people using 6 suits that was loads of fun.
: I have two questions:
: Are there any 'official' games for six-suited decks of cards? Does
: anyone know of any?
: Where the HECK could I find, order, access a six-suited deck of cards?
: Cheers,
: Nate
: nat...@cais.com
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William Reed
: I've seen only once before a playing card deck with SIX suits--
: the traditional four plus I don't even remember what the other
: two were. I DO remember that we cooked up a Skat-variant we could
: play with 8 people using 6 suits that was loads of fun.
I don't know what happened on my previous post, I'll try again.
I have seen a commercial game that I believe was called Trumpet, with 6
suits. I don't remember whether or not they were 13 card suits, though.
Bill
Gabriel Velasco
: wmr...@freenet.columbus.oh.us writes:
: >I have seen a commercial game that I believe was called Trumpet, with 6
: >suits. I don't remember whether or not they were 13 card suits, though.
: They were 11-card suits, with cards simply numbered from one to eleven.
: Quite a fun game.
I second that motion. I know some more "serious" card players that
think it relies a bit too much on luck, but it makes it easier to teach
to first-time casual players and it requires less concentration, so it
make for better converstaion. Also, I think the cards are attractive
and the addition of a board makes it interesting.
P.S. I know the mention of a board erkes some people in a cards
newsgroup, but this is definitely a card game just like cribbage is
even though it uses a board too.
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Christopher Monsour
Gabriel Velasco <gvel...@ucsd.edu> wrote:
>P.S. I know the mention of a board erkes some people in a cards
>newsgroup, but this is definitely a card game just like cribbage is
>even though it uses a board too.
A board? You mean something with pockets to put the hands in, so they
can be replayed by your teammates? All the best card games use that.
OK, have a :-)
--Christopher J. Monsour