Playing card

A playing card is a typically hand-sized rectangular (in India, round) piece of heavy paper or thin plastic used for playing card games. A complete set of cards is a pack or deck. Playing cards are often used as props in magic tricks, as well as occult practices such as cartomancy, and a number of card games involve (or can be used to support) gambling. As a result, their use sometimes meets with disapproval from some religious groups (such as conservative Christians). They are also a popular collectible (as distinct from the cards made specifically for collectible trading card games). Specialty and novelty decks are commonly produced for collectors, often with political, cultural, or educational themes.

External links

• International Playing Card Society
• Playing Cards Online
• Carta Mundi playing cards
• United States Playing Card Company
• Alida, special & rare cards
• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) playing cards. Licensed under the LGPL
• Names of the court cards
• History of the design of the court cards
• Courts on playing cards
• Brisca website
• Andy's Playing Cards
• Manchester University research
• Parody Playing Cards