What surprised me is that a totally unknown brand got the number 1 spot just because it is an American Brand. No one in the entire world, outside of the USA, knows that brand
The jokers also represent day and night/sun and moon. The back of the cards are night while the front is day, there are 12 court cards and 12 months. 13 cards in each suit and 13 weeks in each season. If you do a perfect riffle shuffle from new deck order 24 times it will shuffle full circle back to new deck order.
The King of Hearts did originally show the king holding an axe. Over time, he held the axe progressively closer to his head until the head of the axe disappeared behind the king's head, leaving only the handle showing.
I learned a lot from this and definitely enjoyed it, but it was kinda weird that they mentioned the original suits being cups, coins, swords, and sticks, yet failed to note that this is exactly the same as the Tarot Card suits, and it obviously came from that.
Wrong, these predate the tarot cards, this is an almanac, the church demonized using the almanac for divination so they went into secret and added the 22 major arcana for kaballah. At least that’s how it’s been explained to me…. Supposedly these cards date back to egypt. Taroh was them hiding them.
For tarot, it’s cups, swords, coins/pentacles, and wands. The cards are separated into the major arcana, which contains the well known tarot cards like Strength, Justice, The Fool, Death, and the Emperor, and the minor arcana, which is what the playing cards are based on. However, the suits have an extra card known as the Page. Each face card is meant to represent a type of person, like the Queen of Pentacles may represent an older, wealthy woman, and the Page of Swords may represent a brash, reckless young man. As they evolved into playing cards, the symbols changed into the more well known and accepted ones they are today. Hearts are cups, swords are spades, clubs are wands, and diamonds are pentacles. People have also told fortunes by using the standard deck of playing cards, and some decks are even set up for this. If you are very familiar with tarot, you should be able to read someone’s fortune by using a standard deck.
@@lindawolffkashmir2768 and then of course there is cards of truth or cards of destiny, an entire divination system based on just playing cards and your birthday, at giving you a "birth spread" of cards and all this cool stuff.
I've heard that The Queen of Hearts is inspired by Queen Elizabeth of York, consort of King Henry VII. When you look at her portrait there is an obvious resemble.
Although I was surprised by a few of them, the one that surprised me the most were the shuffling facts. The hugely high number of order possibilities as well as the fact that it's very possible that a deck of cards has never been shuffled and yielded the same result in all of history. Those facts blow my mind!
You gave us the names of the kings (names that are actually the same that are written on the BP Grimaud cards) : Charles = hearts, David = spades, Cesar = diamonds, Alexandre = clubs. But queens and jacks also have names. Jack of clubs is Lancelot, the knight of the Round Table. Jack of diamonds is Hector, the trojan prince. Jack of spades is Ogier, a danish knight who served Charlemagne (aka the king of hearts which is a little bit strange). Jack of hearts is La Hire de Vignole, a knight friend of Joan of Ark. Queen of spades is Pallas, also known as Athena the greek goddess of wisdom. Queen of diamonds is Rachel and queen of Hearts Judith, both being characters from the Bible. Finally Queen of clubs has been named Argine, which is an anagram of Regina, the latin (and italian) name for queen.
Ralph Craig Firstly, I wasn’t totally sure which way he intended to joke, or if all the likes were for the same reason. I imagined someone hearing “rifle” and joking about it without knowing the proper word (just as the narrator had no clue). Secondly, I desperately needed to complain about the lazy editing of the video.
#8 - The Joker is in the deck because he is the evolution of the trump card The Fool from the Major Arcana, a set of 22 trump cards which were used in the game of tarrochi, which can still be found in Hoyle. Today, the Major Arcana is known to be the most famous cards of what is called The Tarot Deck. The Minor Arcana are the "playing cards" as we know them today, minus a fourth royalty member from each of the 4 suits. Why The Fool survives, as The Joker, in a modern standard playing deck, and the other trumps don't, I don't know for certain, but it may have to do with symbology: The Fool in Tarot represents the Player or Questor, that is the person who is asking the deck itself a question, himself. The Fool is called The Fool because he is a novice, unenlightened; he does not yet know the answer to his question, nor has he yet gone on his quest to find enlightenment. That the Fool as the Joker is sometimes used today as a trump card, a wild card, or something unexpected to be paid attention to, serves as an element of chance: a reminder that one is not always in control, nor in posession of all of the facts...a reminder that one is a human fool. Just watch your reaction when one uses a Joker on you. :-) #6 - The King of Hearts is holding his sword behind his head BECAUSE it used to be a battle axe and this is the correct posture for holding a battle axe which one is about to swing. You saw this part in the video but was not in the narrative: no three Kings hold their weapon in the same manner, I say three because one King does not hold his weapon, and indeed one King has no weapon at all! --I'm amazed you did not address the One-Eyed Jack. *You* get to research that one. :-)
Nope, sorry. Not linked at all. According to various scholars, the name Joker evolved from the German name Juker which was used for the Euchre game in Germany. The joker was first mentioned in the 1886 book, Euchre: How to Play it. The Railway Euchre game which is described in the book uses an extra card, which is the joker.
they are nonetheless linked by timeline. that according to WakenerOne tarot is from the 15th century but the vid says it was first printed in the 1860s, and you say the name is from the 1880s. so according to these testimonies the tarot fool appeared 300 years before the conventional joker. we arent talking of the name because each language will use different words, but the idea is clearly lifted from the tarot idea. saying joker comes from euchre is pure speculation and probably coincidence because if you actually know german (which I do), then "euchre" will be pronounced "oikre" and "joker" would be pronounced "yoker", so it wouldnt become a j sound. by selectively choosing your information you can prove anything! that is what a good lawyer or good salesman does, the good lawyer carefully selects info guiding the courtroom the wrong way and the good salesman carefully guides you to purchasing. anyway according to the vid the joker is from the 1860s, 2 decades before your alleged german joker. are you sure it wasnt swiss because these arguments have more holes than a swiss cheese!
Laceykat66 & Wond Erful - The whole tarot timeline is a murky area. Some sources say tarot goes back to the 14th century but that no cards survive, only the stories of them. The 1800's date is the most generally accepted because there are cards from that era which do survive. But clearly they did not spring up overnight, the cards, the games, and the inspirations for them are far older. I've read that Tarot in some form existed in the 1400's as a dress-up game, from which cards were a cheaper alternative. There are also suggestions that at least part of the Major Arcana actually comes from "gypsy cards" (like the Lenormand deck) that were included, thus the modern tarot is an amalgamation of different sources (the symbols most certainly are). And goodness knows how old the sources for the "gypsy cards" go back! As to the pronounciations for "Joker" and "Eucre", it would not surprise me if they are related. You are on the right track on this one, in regards to pronounciation. No slight on your knowledge of the German language, but the fact that you do know it is part of my point: *not everyone does*. Europe (indeed Earth) being so populated with different languages, words are borrowed all of the time with no source given for them. And there was no Urban Dictionary back in the 1800's. Education was not back then what it was today, and everything was transcribed before the printing press, and not everyone writes the way they speak. Mistakes happen, we're human, it's what we do. [For example, study the etomolgy of the name "John" and you'll see both "Ian" and "Yann" are related. Modern J is often comes from an ancient Y (but not exclusively). In reading Latin, one can change an I into a J if they are not familliar with the Latin they are reading. In our modern English, we often see Y being pronounced as either an E or an A, but somtimes it will keep it's hard Y; in your case the "eu" in euchre became the Y in "yoker". Try it with Spanish: "Juan" is the Hispanic "John" and the J is pronounced as either a H or a W depending on who is speaking, and what your ear hears. Try to write it down, not knowing how it's actually spelled, and you could accidentally get "Han" or "Won".] We all know there are multiple card games out there. It's very possible that the Joker card existed prior to Euchre, it's also possible that the Joker card was created for Euchre and was later incoporated into other decks. Scholars are good at research but you can only research what you have evidence for. Many times, card games were outlawed in the past, and decks were burned when found. We can not know the full evolution of the modern 52 card deck (or even Tarot) because of this. I thank you for your insights into Euchre, but to state "no link at all" is counterproductive because even your scholars (and mine) do not and can not know the full story. I see this whole video as a condensed and incomplete version of the most commonly known modern story. I know it's intended to be more of an introductory video and certainly is of no high scholastic value. I think it would be of help if it would say so, so that more people would do their research. But then again, I don't believe that's what this video was intended for. I am glad that it's sparked conversation, for while the video itself leaves much to be desired on this topic, so do the scholastic sources. Information has disappeared, sometimes on purpose. Information has changed, as it has filtered thru the population. Information has to be updated, whenever older sources are found. This is not a Final Say video, nor is it intended to be.
I literally was sitting there and just cringing during the whole video about how he left the entire tarot deck history out of the video. The entire basis of our cards today is based upon the classical tarot deck.
I am surprised that the Tarot deck never made it into this viddy. Pentagrams=Diamonds for money, Clubs=Wands for work, Swords=Spades for conflict and Cups=Hearts for love and the Fool became the Joker. Also, playing cards have a topsy-turvy design, so that unlike tarot cards they can't be used for divination, in which the "up" or "down" state affects the reading. PS: In the olden days, cards were blank on the back to prevent marked decks and were only used for one night of gaming, after which the players could jot addresses or notes on the back of the used cards and trade them so they could keep in touch. This idea gave birth to the business card. PPS: The number of cards in a deck relates to how many cards can be laid out to form a perfect rectangle, because that is how they are printed, all up on one big sheet, before they are cut into cards.
Playing cards are similar to tarot cards. I’m surprised this wasn’t mentioned. I actually prefer doing readings with playing cards vs tarot. However, I use the elements a little differently with playing cards vs tarot . It’s how I was taught But everyone has their own method. Diamonds:fire, clubs: air, spades: earth, hearts: water . Joker: the unexpected Ace: new beginnings something new Ace of spades: change or a loss. An important decision needs to be made. This video was still interesting . Thx for sharing
The playing cards, as I had learned, came from the tarot lower arcana of 56 cards - an extra royal card per suit (page). I never tried a reading with just playing cards. That would leave out the major arcana numbering 0 through 21. These can be rather significant in a reading.
I've always loved cards. I have a lot of different decks, and knew most of this and a bit of alternative thoughts on the kings. But those WWII decks are a goal. The best I have is a deck of reproductions of medieval cards. Everything else is modern but very cool.
The given history of playing cards was very fascinating and of great interest to me ! During the winter months, my family gathers every Friday night of every week, and enjoy playing various games of cards! It will be interesting for us to watch this video together before we begin our card game.......It will be the topic of the evening while we play the game of the night ! Thank you for sharing your info.
I remember back in the 60's my grand parents (who were WWI era people) would be selling decks of ace of spades cards at VFW picnics. They gave the reasoning that if our boys were taken prisoner with an ace of spades on their person the cong wouldn't kill them. Later I found out the real reason for the cards.
2 Corinthians 6:17, NASB: "'Therefore, COME OUT FROM THEIR MIDST AND BE SEPARATE,' says the Lord. 'AND DO NOT TOUCH WHAT IS UNCLEAN; And I will welcome you."
I knew about half of these, but never the less, all of these facts are fascinating! Thank you for the wonderful video. It's entirely extremely well put together. Keep doing what you're going my friend :)
Number two, staring it's possible that no two decks were in the same order after being shuffled, is true only in the sense that the possibility exists, but it's highly unlikely that two decks were not shuffled into the same order. New decks start in the same order, and often people shuffle for a short time.
Funny thing, we are learning about probabilities in my class (and with it, playing cards) and my teacher told us all to watch this video because of playing cards. I have been a longtime subscriber for a while.
You forgot to mention the Spanish Deck one of the biggest Deck of the world in history. With 40 cards. Currently this Deck is used along many countries, South America, Spain, Portugal, south of France, Philipines, and North Africa. Cheers!
The older suits of swords, coins, cups and sticks still remains as the common suits in the minor arcana of tarot cards. About the only difference my set of cards - my Dragon Age set - has is that the "sticks" are Staves because a stave is another name for a staff, and thus the weapon of a Mage, which is appropriate in a game universe where the situation Mages live in is a big issue. Most of the Staves cards are also Mage-related.
Hearts - East - Water - Love - (Cups) Church; Clubs - South - Fire - Power - (Scepters) Nobility; Diamonds - West - Earth - Wealth - (Coins) Bourgeois; Spades - North - Air - Health - (Swords) Military.
Hearts-West-Cups-Water-Feminine energy, Clubs- South-Wands-Fire-Masculine Energy, Diamonds-North- Pentacles-Earth-Strength, Spades-East-Swords-Air-Intellect/communication But that's based off the Kabbalah. I guess one could assign any meaning they like though.
Spade - The standard house in SMB3 Heart - Appears only in SMA4 SMB3, which changes the Super Star into a Super Leaf giving 7 extra lives if matched instead of 5 Club - Same, but the 7up is now a number 3 giving 10 lives Diamond - Guaranteed Win with Club picture
What gets me is that 'Poker' use to be the first game people learned how to play with a deck of cards. But these days, I can't even find hardly anyone who knows how to play it. I guess it's a generational thing. But I really do miss playing card games with friends. Even the drinking games back in my 20s we use to play was fun.
1:55 The reason Hearts represent the Church is because of a corruption. Originally, the suit was called Choeurs, which meant Choristers (ie Monks). At some point, however, this morphed into Coeurs, which is French for Hearts.
THAT WAS A BADASS VIDEO, BRO! REALLY ENJOYED IT! I'll be honest... I've been playing with cards for almost 25 years now and even like to think of myself at this moment as a semi-pro card player and yet I think I maybe knew 1 or 2 of the 10! GREAT VIDEO AND GLAD I WATCHED! #ThumbsUpButton
The one thing I would have liked to know is if there was any relationship between the Minor Arcana and 52 decks and if so why the Page didn't make the transition. On a side note the Fool of the Major Arcana is sometime connected with the Joker.
Came from the Tarot. Remove the Major Arcana, boom 52 cards. Four elements: Earth, Air, Fire, Water equate to (Diamonds/Pentacles/coins), (Spades/Swords), (Clubs/Wands) and (Hearts/Cups). The Jack, Queen, King and Ace are still represented pretty much the same as their Tarot counterparts. This being the Paige (Jack), Queen, King and Ace (These remain unchanged.) It has been said that the Tarot is the pictographic representation of the entirety of the body of knowledge contained in the Kabbalah. The knowledge therein, being considered heretical, was under attack. Books were being burned. So, in an attempt to preserve the secret knowledge, the information was condensed into comprehensive and highly symbolic images. These cards were then used to play many games (assumed to be primarily gambling games), to ensure their preservation. The wise men knew that mans love of gambling would not ever fail. The designs and iterations changed slightly from culture to culture and, over the years, evolved into the cards we know today. That's just from my own research. Feel free to add/correct anything I might have wrong. Just my two sense. Cheers!
As i understand it the arcana came later so its more the other eay around. Even with tarot there original purpose was playing games, a trick taking game along the lines of spades, the fortune telling and mystocal associations came later.
@@ParanormalEncyclopedia technically the fortune telling came after the philosophical parts. One thing the tarot was used for is to trach, especially since a huge majority of people during the 1800s and earlier were illiterate. The symbology on the cards were meant to teach and instruct those people.
1:15 No, it is NOT "generally agreed" that playing cards, as we understand them, originated in China. This is like saying, "Of course, Chuncky peanut butter is the best." Then why do they sell smooth? Many believe that the evidence (slight as it is) shows that "cards" originated in Egypt and spread to Italy and then Europe, but even that is accepted tenuously. China had flat surfaces with images, but many do not call those "cards." The next time you list interesting playing card facts you might want to address why the Jack of Clubs faces to the left & the Queen of Spades faces to the Right. A little court intrigue?? 😆😆🙃
Not actually. There is a lot of information on the history of playing cards out there. For example, the indexes int he corners of cards were actually so revolutioary they were patendted in the 1860s.
_Rifle_ shuffle? I think you mean _riffle_ shuffle. If you're trying to shuffle cards with a rifle, you're probabably going to have some difficulties of one kind or another.
I collected jokers years ago because it was fun to see how many different ones I could come up with, I think the cards that were made into maps is a neat idea
@ 5:31 only if you add as their perspective position within the deck. Face cards are usually worth 10 in most cases. This does not add up to 365 if you value the face cards at 10. Only when 11 for Jack, 12 for the Queen and 13 for the King does this add up to 365 with a joker...
What surprised me most is this video's use of the word "notorious." I, for one, am very glad that POWs were given maps to escape, and do not find this dubious at all.
I still have a deck of 'aircraft identification' playing cards from when I was a G.I. in the 1970s; they feature silhouettes (front, side, and top) of NATO/Warsaw Pact aircraft on the backs of the cards (where the nekkid people's pics usually are). The idea was to foster a better awareness of 'who's are whose' if one ever found him/herself on an AA gun during an actual camp-out.....
It’s not odd to not mention that. It’s correct to leave it out. The producers of this video probably did their homework and therefore were correct in leaving that claim out, because playing cards actually pre-date Tarot, though both originated in the late 13th century. (Some reports indicate that playing cards originated in the 13th century and the Tarot originated in the mid to late 14th century.) I use both playing cards and Tarot cards for magic and for Cartomancy, (as well as some other ‘Oracle’ type decks), and their history and use, (particularly for divination), fascinates me. Regardless, paying cards came first and Tarot was originally just the 22 Major Arcana and were created for, and used for, playing card games. They were not a 78 card deck until quite a bit after the 52 card deck had already originated and had been used for Cartomancy, (like a couple of centuries later). Those 52 playing cards were added to the Tarot deck as the bulk of the Minor Arcana, (with the Pages for each of the four suits being added to the Tarot deck, despite it not having been in the playing card deck). According to historical records, even after adding the 52 cards to create the Minor Arcana portion of the deck, Tarot cards were only used for gaming and were not used for Cartomancy, (divination), until about 1750.
3:42 Why not also mention that all the other Kings have only 2 hands on their cards, the KoH has 4, which leads credence to the 'King being killed' theory??
the king of hearts is not stabbing himself. you have to look at the patterns of the sleeve holding the sword and the sleeve of the kings hand on his chest
With regards to #10, an even more remarkable card-related expression is "playing both sides against the middle". It came from a common method of cheating casinos would use in the largely-forgotten game of faro during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
1: You wrote "Followed Suite" instead of "Suit" 2: While rifle shuffling is certainly effective at preventing cheating, it also leaves a hole in your deck. You meant to say _riffle_ shuffling, as in the sound the cards make when they slide and slap against each other.
I remember hearing about the Ace of spades in the Vietnam war. One that wasn't here that I'd heard in the past was that the suicide king was actually a result of poor art. The sword is drawn back behind his head, but somewhere along the line, foreshortening was omitted.
Suicide kings*, plural. The king of diamonds is also a suicide king, with an axe right above his neck. They are called suicide kings because they look like they're committing suicide and they're red in color, blood is red. The king of diamonds is also one of the only two cards that holds an axe. The other being the jack of hearts.
So many playing card decks. As many have noted, Tarot cards are one type, but also, and I think more common... are the forty card decks used to play games like Scopa and Quince... in those decks, the number cards are from 1 to 7, and many follow the "style" of Tarot decks with the suits being coins, cups, clubs, and swords. The royalty cards don't have a queen, but instead consist of a king, a knight, and a knave.
It's an antiquated term. Because the Jack is not royalty (heard of the Royal Flush? - a hand used in poker), unlinke the King and Queen, somtimes they are refered to as Court Cards as to include him in.
It may be a transpondian thing. I'm in the UK, and I've always known them as court cards; "face cards" is understandable, but it sounds very "American".
I'm a little surprised that you didn't mention the the King of Hearts (I also believe him to be Charlamagne) is the ONLY court card with FOUR ARMS...didn't you notice the different sleeves? I've written many articles on the King of Hearts to magician's sites and I believe that the sword-holding arm was actually that of Carloman, Charlamagne's younger brother. Carloman HATED his older brother because of the land (most of Europe and part of the far East) he owned and Charlamagne decided to give his brother some land, but it was all land-locked which enraged Carloman! He often talked of killing his brother...but Carloman died at 19 years of age from "unknown causes". Then his history was erased. Charlamagne certainly killed his brother and then demanded that his history be lost in time.
the highest count the playing deck reach was 56 not 52 as there were four picture cards called the so an original royal flush was knight, prince, queen, king and ace
Playing cards came from Tarot cards. Because it was illegal to tell someone their fortune, whenever someone was seen giving a reading they would say they were playing a game. The 4 suits were clubs/wands, diamonds/coins, spades/swords and hearts/cups.
very interesting ....what surprise me the most was at the very end...about the cards helping out our military....makes me want to buy cards just for the pure sentiment that it might of saved some our boys lives.
Hi, I used to collect Jokers aswell, I had around 450, when unfortunately they were stolen in a burglary, strange thing to steal but still. Wasn't you was it?
a number of items here were totally new to me, especially the stories regarding the Bicycle cards and their connection to wars ... wondered however, why there was no mention of Taro cards, from which these 52 cards originally come!?
Because 'playing cards' actually PRE-DATE your Mystic Tarot (as a simple search will reveal). Hence, no mention of the 'divination cards' here. The uploader ~did~ warn in the title that this was stuff you may not *know*; it seems that you just found one of those things.
That one about the cards containing a map really surprised me! Which one surprised you?
Be Amazed the one about the suites
Be Amazed number 1
What surprised me is that a totally unknown brand got the number 1 spot just because it is an American Brand. No one in the entire world, outside of the USA, knows that brand
Frank Boogaard ikr...I grew up on Bee Brand
NONEEEEE I am a magician so lol
The jokers also represent day and night/sun and moon. The back of the cards are night while the front is day, there are 12 court cards and 12 months. 13 cards in each suit and 13 weeks in each season. If you do a perfect riffle shuffle from new deck order 24 times it will shuffle full circle back to new deck order.
The King of Hearts did originally show the king holding an axe. Over time, he held the axe progressively closer to his head until the head of the axe disappeared behind the king's head, leaving only the handle showing.
Joker can also be used for replacing a lost card since backing designs are the same as rest of deck ;]
OMG legit what I do
Holy shit,.. why haven’t I ever thought of this??!
yes, you are right bro
Yes. I have seen it done.
I learned a lot from this and definitely enjoyed it, but it was kinda weird that they mentioned the original suits being cups, coins, swords, and sticks, yet failed to note that this is exactly the same as the Tarot Card suits, and it obviously came from that.
Wrong, these predate the tarot cards, this is an almanac, the church demonized using the almanac for divination so they went into secret and added the 22 major arcana for kaballah.
At least that’s how it’s been explained to me…. Supposedly these cards date back to egypt. Taroh was them hiding them.
Tarot deck came from playing cards. It has an added suit.
For tarot, it’s cups, swords, coins/pentacles, and wands. The cards are separated into the major arcana, which contains the well known tarot cards like Strength, Justice, The Fool, Death, and the Emperor, and the minor arcana, which is what the playing cards are based on. However, the suits have an extra card known as the Page. Each face card is meant to represent a type of person, like the Queen of Pentacles may represent an older, wealthy woman, and the Page of Swords may represent a brash, reckless young man. As they evolved into playing cards, the symbols changed into the more well known and accepted ones they are today. Hearts are cups, swords are spades, clubs are wands, and diamonds are pentacles.
People have also told fortunes by using the standard deck of playing cards, and some decks are even set up for this. If you are very familiar with tarot, you should be able to read someone’s fortune by using a standard deck.
@@lindawolffkashmir2768 and then of course there is cards of truth or cards of destiny, an entire divination system based on just playing cards and your birthday, at giving you a "birth spread" of cards and all this cool stuff.
I've heard that The Queen of Hearts is inspired by Queen Elizabeth of York, consort of King Henry VII. When you look at her portrait there is an obvious resemble.
lol, I feel like you guys just remade my video
true lol
Chris Ramsay true AF
Chris Ramsay ha your a trend setter.
thought this sounded familiar
they copy many peoples videos
Although I was surprised by a few of them, the one that surprised me the most were the shuffling facts. The hugely high number of order possibilities as well as the fact that it's very possible that a deck of cards has never been shuffled and yielded the same result in all of history. Those facts blow my mind!
You gave us the names of the kings (names that are actually the same that are written on the BP Grimaud cards) : Charles = hearts, David = spades, Cesar = diamonds, Alexandre = clubs. But queens and jacks also have names. Jack of clubs is Lancelot, the knight of the Round Table. Jack of diamonds is Hector, the trojan prince. Jack of spades is Ogier, a danish knight who served Charlemagne (aka the king of hearts which is a little bit strange). Jack of hearts is La Hire de Vignole, a knight friend of Joan of Ark. Queen of spades is Pallas, also known as Athena the greek goddess of wisdom. Queen of diamonds is Rachel and queen of Hearts Judith, both being characters from the Bible. Finally Queen of clubs has been named Argine, which is an anagram of Regina, the latin (and italian) name for queen.
OlafReuh really interesting info I didn't know any of that other than the kings.
And 2 of spades is named a... Deuce !
These names are usually only seen in French decks, I think.
A 2 is a deuce not just of spades.
@@ladykoiwolfe That's a Deucher!
"Rifle shuffle," the deadliest shuffle of them all.
You have 69 likes now that I’ve liked it. Your welcome
The correct phrase is "riffle shuffle" (with 2 f characters) not "rifle shuffle". It bugged me when I heard the narrator say it incorrectly.
Robert Johnson he is kidding because rifles are deadly. He is poking at his mistake in the video. Read it again.
@@rjohnson8ball NEVER! EXPLAIN the joke...
Ralph Craig Firstly, I wasn’t totally sure which way he intended to joke, or if all the likes were for the same reason. I imagined someone hearing “rifle” and joking about it without knowing the proper word (just as the narrator had no clue). Secondly, I desperately needed to complain about the lazy editing of the video.
#8 - The Joker is in the deck because he is the evolution of the trump card The Fool from the Major Arcana, a set of 22 trump cards which were used in the game of tarrochi, which can still be found in Hoyle. Today, the Major Arcana is known to be the most famous cards of what is called The Tarot Deck. The Minor Arcana are the "playing cards" as we know them today, minus a fourth royalty member from each of the 4 suits. Why The Fool survives, as The Joker, in a modern standard playing deck, and the other trumps don't, I don't know for certain, but it may have to do with symbology: The Fool in Tarot represents the Player or Questor, that is the person who is asking the deck itself a question, himself. The Fool is called The Fool because he is a novice, unenlightened; he does not yet know the answer to his question, nor has he yet gone on his quest to find enlightenment. That the Fool as the Joker is sometimes used today as a trump card, a wild card, or something unexpected to be paid attention to, serves as an element of chance: a reminder that one is not always in control, nor in posession of all of the facts...a reminder that one is a human fool. Just watch your reaction when one uses a Joker on you. :-)
#6 - The King of Hearts is holding his sword behind his head BECAUSE it used to be a battle axe and this is the correct posture for holding a battle axe which one is about to swing. You saw this part in the video but was not in the narrative: no three Kings hold their weapon in the same manner, I say three because one King does not hold his weapon, and indeed one King has no weapon at all!
--I'm amazed you did not address the One-Eyed Jack. *You* get to research that one. :-)
Ok
Nope, sorry. Not linked at all. According to various scholars, the name Joker evolved from the German name Juker which was used for the Euchre game in Germany. The joker was first mentioned in the 1886 book, Euchre: How to Play it. The Railway Euchre game which is described in the book uses an extra card, which is the joker.
they are nonetheless linked by timeline. that according to WakenerOne tarot is from the 15th century but the vid says it was first printed in the 1860s, and you say the name is from the 1880s.
so according to these testimonies the tarot fool appeared 300 years before the conventional joker.
we arent talking of the name because each language will use different words, but the idea is clearly lifted from the tarot idea.
saying joker comes from euchre is pure speculation and probably coincidence because if you actually know german (which I do), then "euchre" will be pronounced "oikre" and "joker" would be pronounced "yoker",
so it wouldnt become a j sound.
by selectively choosing your information you can prove anything! that is what a good lawyer or good salesman does, the good lawyer carefully selects info guiding the courtroom the wrong way and the good salesman carefully guides you to purchasing.
anyway according to the vid the joker is from the 1860s, 2 decades before your alleged german joker.
are you sure it wasnt swiss because these arguments have more holes than a swiss cheese!
Laceykat66 & Wond Erful - The whole tarot timeline is a murky area. Some sources say tarot goes back to the 14th century but that no cards survive, only the stories of them. The 1800's date is the most generally accepted because there are cards from that era which do survive. But clearly they did not spring up overnight, the cards, the games, and the inspirations for them are far older. I've read that Tarot in some form existed in the 1400's as a dress-up game, from which cards were a cheaper alternative. There are also suggestions that at least part of the Major Arcana actually comes from "gypsy cards" (like the Lenormand deck) that were included, thus the modern tarot is an amalgamation of different sources (the symbols most certainly are). And goodness knows how old the sources for the "gypsy cards" go back!
As to the pronounciations for "Joker" and "Eucre", it would not surprise me if they are related. You are on the right track on this one, in regards to pronounciation. No slight on your knowledge of the German language, but the fact that you do know it is part of my point: *not everyone does*. Europe (indeed Earth) being so populated with different languages, words are borrowed all of the time with no source given for them. And there was no Urban Dictionary back in the 1800's. Education was not back then what it was today, and everything was transcribed before the printing press, and not everyone writes the way they speak. Mistakes happen, we're human, it's what we do. [For example, study the etomolgy of the name "John" and you'll see both "Ian" and "Yann" are related. Modern J is often comes from an ancient Y (but not exclusively). In reading Latin, one can change an I into a J if they are not familliar with the Latin they are reading. In our modern English, we often see Y being pronounced as either an E or an A, but somtimes it will keep it's hard Y; in your case the "eu" in euchre became the Y in "yoker". Try it with Spanish: "Juan" is the Hispanic "John" and the J is pronounced as either a H or a W depending on who is speaking, and what your ear hears. Try to write it down, not knowing how it's actually spelled, and you could accidentally get "Han" or "Won".]
We all know there are multiple card games out there. It's very possible that the Joker card existed prior to Euchre, it's also possible that the Joker card was created for Euchre and was later incoporated into other decks. Scholars are good at research but you can only research what you have evidence for. Many times, card games were outlawed in the past, and decks were burned when found. We can not know the full evolution of the modern 52 card deck (or even Tarot) because of this. I thank you for your insights into Euchre, but to state "no link at all" is counterproductive because even your scholars (and mine) do not and can not know the full story.
I see this whole video as a condensed and incomplete version of the most commonly known modern story. I know it's intended to be more of an introductory video and certainly is of no high scholastic value. I think it would be of help if it would say so, so that more people would do their research. But then again, I don't believe that's what this video was intended for. I am glad that it's sparked conversation, for while the video itself leaves much to be desired on this topic, so do the scholastic sources. Information has disappeared, sometimes on purpose. Information has changed, as it has filtered thru the population. Information has to be updated, whenever older sources are found. This is not a Final Say video, nor is it intended to be.
I literally was sitting there and just cringing during the whole video about how he left the entire tarot deck history out of the video. The entire basis of our cards today is based upon the classical tarot deck.
Did you know the 4 suits of playing cards are like a marriage? you start off with a heart and a diamond and end up wanting a club and a spade
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Or u start off with a club & spade & later want some hearts & diamonds 💎
I am surprised that the Tarot deck never made it into this viddy. Pentagrams=Diamonds for money, Clubs=Wands for work, Swords=Spades for conflict and Cups=Hearts for love and the Fool became the Joker. Also, playing cards have a topsy-turvy design, so that unlike tarot cards they can't be used for divination, in which the "up" or "down" state affects the reading.
PS: In the olden days, cards were blank on the back to prevent marked decks and were only used for one night of gaming, after which the players could jot addresses or notes on the back of the used cards and trade them so they could keep in touch. This idea gave birth to the business card.
PPS: The number of cards in a deck relates to how many cards can be laid out to form a perfect rectangle, because that is how they are printed, all up on one big sheet, before they are cut into cards.
The King of Hearts is stabbing himself because he can't grow a mustache, and all the other kings are laughing at him.
😂
Playing cards are similar to tarot cards. I’m surprised this wasn’t mentioned. I actually prefer doing readings with playing cards vs tarot. However, I use the elements a little differently with playing cards vs tarot . It’s how I was taught But everyone has their own method. Diamonds:fire, clubs: air, spades: earth, hearts: water . Joker: the unexpected Ace: new beginnings something new
Ace of spades: change or a loss. An important decision needs to be made. This video was still interesting . Thx for sharing
They basically are the Minor Arcana without the Page
.. Just saying
The playing cards, as I had learned, came from the tarot lower arcana of 56 cards - an extra royal card per suit (page). I never tried a reading with just playing cards. That would leave out the major arcana numbering 0 through 21. These can be rather significant in a reading.
Pretty much all of it. I never knew playing cards had so much thought put into them. Very impressed and even more so with the research!
I've always loved cards. I have a lot of different decks, and knew most of this and a bit of alternative thoughts on the kings. But those WWII decks are a goal. The best I have is a deck of reproductions of medieval cards. Everything else is modern but very cool.
The given history of playing cards was very fascinating and of great interest to me !
During the winter months, my family gathers every Friday night of every week, and enjoy
playing various games of cards! It will be interesting for us to watch this video together
before we begin our card game.......It will be the topic of the evening while we play the game
of the night ! Thank you for sharing your info.
I had heard of some of these stories about the cards, but I never heard or read the actual meanings as you described here. Thank you for that!
This is the best video of yours I've seen in a long time! All well researched, loads of things I didn't know. This is a huge improvement. Great video.
The one about the tax stamps eventually inspiring the designs of the ace of spades was really interesting and good history info. Thanks!
I remember back in the 60's my grand parents (who were WWI era people) would be selling decks of ace of spades cards at VFW picnics. They gave the reasoning that if our boys were taken prisoner with an ace of spades on their person the cong wouldn't kill them. Later I found out the real reason for the cards.
Thank you so very much for posting! I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation!!!
I'm a magician with cards being my favorite prop. I never knew the odds were so high with shuffling only 20 cards.
2 Corinthians 6:17, NASB: "'Therefore, COME OUT FROM THEIR MIDST AND BE SEPARATE,' says the Lord. 'AND DO NOT TOUCH WHAT IS UNCLEAN; And I will welcome you."
I knew about half of these, but never the less, all of these facts are fascinating! Thank you for the wonderful video. It's entirely extremely well put together. Keep doing what you're going my friend :)
I'm trying to create a character with the ability to summon soldiers from playing cards. This was useful. Thanks
Number two, staring it's possible that no two decks were in the same order after being shuffled, is true only in the sense that the possibility exists, but it's highly unlikely that two decks were not shuffled into the same order.
New decks start in the same order, and often people shuffle for a short time.
Funny thing, we are learning about probabilities in my class (and with it, playing cards) and my teacher told us all to watch this video because of playing cards. I have been a longtime subscriber for a while.
4:30 - the king of hearts does most definitely display a gorgeous mustache.
You forgot to mention the Spanish Deck one of the biggest Deck of the world in history. With 40 cards. Currently this Deck is used along many countries, South America, Spain, Portugal, south of France, Philipines, and North Africa. Cheers!
we gonna just skim over the fact he said”rifle” shuffle? its riffle shuffle
I was surprised by this information about cards.
The explanation of the royal cards was intriguing.
Thanks!
Why is the jack of clubs the only non-spade card to turn his head to his left while all other picture cards turn to their right ?
Some decks have the queen of hearts do that.
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The older suits of swords, coins, cups and sticks still remains as the common suits in the minor arcana of tarot cards. About the only difference my set of cards - my Dragon Age set - has is that the "sticks" are Staves because a stave is another name for a staff, and thus the weapon of a Mage, which is appropriate in a game universe where the situation Mages live in is a big issue. Most of the Staves cards are also Mage-related.
Interesting facts about origins of playing cards!👍🎁🎄🎁🎄🎁🎄🎁🎄🎁
"Why is the ace of spades is different?"
Yep.
Myth: The one stabbing the King of Hearts, is the Queen of Hearts with her famous quote. "Off with his head!"
Hearts - East - Water - Love - (Cups) Church;
Clubs - South - Fire - Power - (Scepters) Nobility;
Diamonds - West - Earth - Wealth - (Coins) Bourgeois;
Spades - North - Air - Health - (Swords) Military.
Hearts-West-Cups-Water-Feminine energy, Clubs- South-Wands-Fire-Masculine Energy, Diamonds-North- Pentacles-Earth-Strength, Spades-East-Swords-Air-Intellect/communication
But that's based off the Kabbalah. I guess one could assign any meaning they like though.
ty bc that was driving me nuts!
@@nadiasilver5762 yeah I know. I usually don't chime in, but the video was waaay off.
Spade - The standard house in SMB3
Heart - Appears only in SMA4 SMB3, which changes the Super Star into a Super Leaf giving 7 extra lives if matched instead of 5
Club - Same, but the 7up is now a number 3 giving 10 lives
Diamond - Guaranteed Win with Club picture
I loved this video! I've never really thought about or even noticed most of these things. Thanks.
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Very informative. Lots of thanks! 👍👍
8:12 you forgot the one i use
"The Table Mess"
When u put all the cards on the table move them around and put them in a deck again
*Also known as "washing."
52 card pickup - The EASIEST and MOST HATED card game ever.
gtafelon that's the method they use in Vegas card rooms, combined with a regular shuffle.
I think most casinos use that method, since it's the most difficult shuffle to rig.
Aka Domino Shuffle
I always remember the suits as Matespritship (Heart), Moiraillegiance (Diamond) Kismessitude (Spades) and Auspictiship (Clubs)
The elements associated with clubs and spades are given in reverse of what I believe to be the more common association: clubs = fire, spades = air.
The King of Hearts isn't stabbing himself in the back, that's the Queen of Spade's arm, believed to be why she's hated/thought of as evil.
What gets me is that 'Poker' use to be the first game people learned how to play with a deck of cards. But these days, I can't even find hardly anyone who knows how to play it. I guess it's a generational thing. But I really do miss playing card games with friends. Even the drinking games back in my 20s we use to play was fun.
Yeah now everyone is playing Hold 'em. An entire TV channel devoted to it. Oh wait, that's Poker.
Dad taught me poker when I was seven!
me and 3 or 5 buddies still play poker on weekends ♠
A 10 min vid for ten card secerets. I love the creativity..... Waiiiiiiiiit a minute
My squad leader used to throw aces on dead VC. Haven't though of that in years.
What's crazy about never being shuffled the same is, that one of those combinations would require the deck to be in perfect order like when its new.
1:55 The reason Hearts represent the Church is because of a corruption. Originally, the suit was called Choeurs, which meant Choristers (ie Monks). At some point, however, this morphed into Coeurs, which is French for Hearts.
THAT WAS A BADASS VIDEO, BRO! REALLY ENJOYED IT! I'll be honest... I've been playing with cards for almost 25 years now and even like to think of myself at this moment as a semi-pro card player and yet I think I maybe knew 1 or 2 of the 10! GREAT VIDEO AND GLAD I WATCHED! #ThumbsUpButton
the cards during the gulf war with pics of the most wanted
Great video, this is why i love youtube so much!
No reference to the 1 eyed Jacks?
I've always wondered about him.
There is a one eyed card for each king, queen and Jack... how about the dead man hand?
Or the pregnant Queen
Bronze Cowboy the dead mans hand is aces and eights from Wild Bill Hickok. It's the hand he had when he was shot from behind by Jack McCall.
The one thing I would have liked to know is if there was any relationship between the Minor Arcana and 52 decks and if so why the Page didn't make the transition. On a side note the Fool of the Major Arcana is sometime connected with the Joker.
Came from the Tarot. Remove the Major Arcana, boom 52 cards. Four elements: Earth, Air, Fire, Water equate to (Diamonds/Pentacles/coins), (Spades/Swords), (Clubs/Wands) and (Hearts/Cups). The Jack, Queen, King and Ace are still represented pretty much the same as their Tarot counterparts. This being the Paige (Jack), Queen, King and Ace (These remain unchanged.) It has been said that the Tarot is the pictographic representation of the entirety of the body of knowledge contained in the Kabbalah. The knowledge therein, being considered heretical, was under attack. Books were being burned. So, in an attempt to preserve the secret knowledge, the information was condensed into comprehensive and highly symbolic images. These cards were then used to play many games (assumed to be primarily gambling games), to ensure their preservation. The wise men knew that mans love of gambling would not ever fail. The designs and iterations changed slightly from culture to culture and, over the years, evolved into the cards we know today.
That's just from my own research. Feel free to add/correct anything I might have wrong. Just my two sense. Cheers!
As i understand it the arcana came later so its more the other eay around. Even with tarot there original purpose was playing games, a trick taking game along the lines of spades, the fortune telling and mystocal associations came later.
@@ParanormalEncyclopedia technically the fortune telling came after the philosophical parts. One thing the tarot was used for is to trach, especially since a huge majority of people during the 1800s and earlier were illiterate. The symbology on the cards were meant to teach and instruct those people.
1:15 No, it is NOT "generally agreed" that playing cards, as we understand them, originated in China. This is like saying, "Of course, Chuncky peanut butter is the best." Then why do they sell smooth? Many believe that the evidence (slight as it is) shows that "cards" originated in Egypt and spread to Italy and then Europe, but even that is accepted tenuously. China had flat surfaces with images, but many do not call those "cards." The next time you list interesting playing card facts you might want to address why the Jack of Clubs faces to the left & the Queen of Spades faces to the Right. A little court intrigue?? 😆😆🙃
I agree!!
WHAT AMAZED ME WAS THE FACT THIS VIDEO WAS MADE AT ALL.
Not actually. There is a lot of information on the history of playing cards out there. For example, the indexes int he corners of cards were actually so revolutioary they were patendted in the 1860s.
That's so cool about the maps behind the cards. Clever.
_Rifle_ shuffle? I think you mean _riffle_ shuffle. If you're trying to shuffle cards with a rifle, you're probabably going to have some difficulties of one kind or another.
Yes this is what i said just now
Luckily nobody will challenge your shuffling method
Triggered?
See, it was worth a shot.
;)
Depends how large the rifle is. An artillery piece, for example, is rifled. Those are the cards used, at a guess, in a shell game.
Thank goodness it wasn't just me!
I collected jokers years ago because it was fun to see how many different ones I could come up with, I think the cards that were made into maps is a neat idea
You didn't mention tarot.
That the four jacks are a combination of the 4 knights and 4 page cards.
That's not true at all, though.
@ 5:31 only if you add as their perspective position within the deck. Face cards are usually worth 10 in most cases. This does not add up to 365 if you value the face cards at 10. Only when 11 for Jack, 12 for the Queen and 13 for the King does this add up to 365 with a joker...
What surprised me most is this video's use of the word "notorious." I, for one, am very glad that POWs were given maps to escape, and do not find this dubious at all.
I still have a deck of 'aircraft identification' playing cards from when I was a G.I. in the 1970s; they feature silhouettes (front, side, and top) of NATO/Warsaw Pact aircraft on the backs of the cards (where the nekkid people's pics usually are). The idea was to foster a better awareness of 'who's are whose' if one ever found him/herself on an AA gun during an actual camp-out.....
I find it really odd that no mention of Tarot decks being the basis of the 52-card deck is made.
It’s not odd to not mention that. It’s correct to leave it out. The producers of this video probably did their homework and therefore were correct in leaving that claim out, because playing cards actually pre-date Tarot, though both originated in the late 13th century. (Some reports indicate that playing cards originated in the 13th century and the Tarot originated in the mid to late 14th century.) I use both playing cards and Tarot cards for magic and for Cartomancy, (as well as some other ‘Oracle’ type decks), and their history and use, (particularly for divination), fascinates me.
Regardless, paying cards came first and Tarot was originally just the 22 Major Arcana and were created for, and used for, playing card games. They were not a 78 card deck until quite a bit after the 52 card deck had already originated and had been used for Cartomancy, (like a couple of centuries later). Those 52 playing cards were added to the Tarot deck as the bulk of the Minor Arcana, (with the Pages for each of the four suits being added to the Tarot deck, despite it not having been in the playing card deck). According to historical records, even after adding the 52 cards to create the Minor Arcana portion of the deck, Tarot cards were only used for gaming and were not used for Cartomancy, (divination), until about 1750.
I was surprised about the story of aces. But liked the whole video very much.
3:42
Why not also mention that all the other Kings have only 2 hands on their cards, the KoH has 4, which leads credence to the 'King being killed' theory??
Fun and interesting. Had to chuckle at "Why is the Ace of Spades is Different".
the king of hearts is not stabbing himself. you have to look at the patterns of the sleeve holding the sword and the sleeve of the kings hand on his chest
It's supposed to be one of the queens doing him in.
It's the Q♠️'s hand holding the sword on the K♥️ card!
With regards to #10, an even more remarkable card-related expression is "playing both sides against the middle". It came from a common method of cheating casinos would use in the largely-forgotten game of faro during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
1: You wrote "Followed Suite" instead of "Suit"
2: While rifle shuffling is certainly effective at preventing cheating, it also leaves a hole in your deck. You meant to say _riffle_ shuffling, as in the sound the cards make when they slide and slap against each other.
You just had me intrigued about these cards very interesting, thank you for sharing
Are we just going to not talk about how the four suits: Cups, Coins, Swords, and Sticks come from tarot cards?
Maybe so or maybe not Who can really specify the real meaning of tarot cards.
It's actually the opposite.
Tarot was invented AFTER the playing cards.
Wow....is that actually a true fact...?
@@zakpint1317
Yes. Playing cards go as far back as 1377.
Tarot didn't make its arrival until the 1500's.
Yeah, it's ridiculous that tarot was not even mentioned in this video.
I remember hearing about the Ace of spades in the Vietnam war. One that wasn't here that I'd heard in the past was that the suicide king was actually a result of poor art. The sword is drawn back behind his head, but somewhere along the line, foreshortening was omitted.
Suicide kings*, plural.
The king of diamonds is also a suicide king, with an axe right above his neck. They are called suicide kings because they look like they're committing suicide and they're red in color, blood is red. The king of diamonds is also one of the only two cards that holds an axe. The other being the jack of hearts.
also diamonds and hearts are red
Surprisingly u started but never got into them being the original tarot deck but somethings I did not knw very informative thanks. 😊
3:32 You say "lack of facial hair" while showing the king and his glorious beard. Last I checked, beards are most definitely "facial hair".
Besides that, there are hundreds of differendly drawn kings of heart and this is the ONLY one without a moustache.
He said without a mustache at beginning
Compared to the others that's a correct term....don't worry manhood is measured by a man's decency, not the amount of hair he can grow.
That’s 3:53
I love the 3 of diamonds...
The escape map hidden in the playing cards was the coolest!
Enjoyed the video.
"Heart represents female"
Now that's why Cute Pink loves the Heart Zone
says "king of hearts has no mustache ",right after showing king of hearts with mustache at 4:32. LOL
JOKERS ARE WILD
So many playing card decks. As many have noted, Tarot cards are one type, but also, and I think more common... are the forty card decks used to play games like Scopa and Quince... in those decks, the number cards are from 1 to 7, and many follow the "style" of Tarot decks with the suits being coins, cups, clubs, and swords. The royalty cards don't have a queen, but instead consist of a king, a knight, and a knave.
I've never heard the King, Queen, and Jack referred to as "court cards". I've always known them as "face cards".
Kink, Queen and jack - members of Royalty, hence "Court Cards". (NOT the justice courts..... :-))
@Mike Rogers I know. I'm just saying I've never heard them called "court cards". They're "face cards".
I have also heard them called "Picture Cards" ??
It's an antiquated term. Because the Jack is not royalty (heard of the Royal Flush? - a hand used in poker), unlinke the King and Queen, somtimes they are refered to as Court Cards as to include him in.
It may be a transpondian thing. I'm in the UK, and I've always known them as court cards; "face cards" is understandable, but it sounds very "American".
I'm a little surprised that you didn't mention the the King of Hearts (I also believe him to be Charlamagne) is the ONLY court card with FOUR ARMS...didn't you notice the different sleeves? I've written many articles on the King of Hearts to magician's sites and I believe that the sword-holding arm was actually that of Carloman, Charlamagne's younger brother. Carloman HATED his older brother because of the land (most of Europe and part of the far East) he owned and Charlamagne decided to give his brother some land, but it was all land-locked which enraged Carloman! He often talked of killing his brother...but Carloman died at 19 years of age from "unknown causes". Then his history was erased. Charlamagne certainly killed his brother and then demanded that his history be lost in time.
One question, for me, that still remains unanswered is, "Why is it called a 'deck' of cards?"
In Cards of destiny (readings with playing cards), it is known as an unbound book, because the story is always different.
I just stumbled upon this video & found it extremely informative. great job!
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The king of hearts represents victory
I actually knew a couple of these, specifically #3 & #4. But the restroom I never heard of. Nice to learn something new.
the highest count the playing deck reach was 56 not 52 as there were four picture cards called the so an original royal flush was knight, prince, queen, king and ace
What surprised me the most is that I watched this video!!!
Playing cards came from Tarot cards. Because it was illegal to tell someone their fortune, whenever someone was seen giving a reading they would say they were playing a game. The 4 suits were clubs/wands, diamonds/coins, spades/swords and hearts/cups.
Sorry that is untrue. Playing cards came first, then tarot cards came later. It's a myth playing cards came from Tarot cards
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very interesting ....what surprise me the most was at the very end...about the cards helping out our military....makes me want to buy cards just for the pure sentiment that it might of saved some our boys lives.
I love jokers... I have close to 600 different now in my collection... can´t you make a video about them???
MrMushroomBrain i have boxes of them i use when I'm practicing some cardistry or throwing, or gaff.
cool!
MrMushroomBrain that would be a cool video to see 👍🏻
I agree, jokers are so exciting!
Hi, I used to collect Jokers aswell, I had around 450, when unfortunately they were stolen in a burglary, strange thing to steal but still. Wasn't you was it?
a number of items here were totally new to me, especially the stories regarding the Bicycle cards and their connection to wars ...
wondered however, why there was no mention of Taro cards, from which these 52 cards originally come!?
Because 'playing cards' actually PRE-DATE your Mystic Tarot (as a simple search will reveal). Hence, no mention of the 'divination cards' here. The uploader ~did~ warn in the title that this was stuff you may not *know*; it seems that you just found one of those things.
at 6:31 the king of hearts has a mustache ...
In the Bicycle deck he doesn’t have a mustache. All of the pictures of him without a mustache were bicycle cards.
The bicycle map cards are awesome!