The first record of playing cards dates back to 9th-century China, which would place their invention around the same time as gunpowder and more than 500 years before the printing press. But their ...

While the Middle Ages treated playing cards as objects of sorcery and the more reasonable French introduced the four main suits that are still used today (hearts, clubs, spades, diamonds), a more ...

A standard deck of playing cards can be utilised to play games ranging from a single-player dungeon crawler to a multi-player party game. Regardless of whether a deck of cards is simple, ornate or ...

While the exact origins of playing cards are not entirely clear, they are believed to have originated in China during the Tang Dynasty around the 9th century. The early Chinese playing cards were ...

According to the website ShortList, back in the 1930s the he United States Playing Card Company introduced a 5th suit in its 65-card deck. This fact itself is taken from Hoyle’s Modern Encyclopedia of ...