The History of Playing Cards

You forgot about the ace

Very interesting

i feel like if they pit athena, godess of war, and a knight who fought alongside joan of arc, they could've joan of arc as one of the queens. i know theres not realky anything i can do about it but i feel like its a but of a missed opportunity😭😭

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Really interesting video! We in Greece call those symbols with some inspiration from the past. We have swords for clubs, goblets or cups for hearts, we use spade and for the diamonds we use the french carreau refering to its diamond shape.

Discovered your channel back when you released your coat of arms video. Wanted to see what happened in the meantime and must say I love what you do :)

Is there any significance to the face cards looking left/right?

This channel is Generally underrated. Great video though.

There is a mystery map of the cards it gives every birthday a. Card and tells your personality and tells the future its Accurate

Why is the Ace of Spades printed differently from other Aces?

Nice 👍🏻

Japanese Hanafuda cards actually don’t descend directly from Chinese money cards—though their local versions of Mahjong do—They descend from komatsufuda, local copies of Portuguese playing cards imported at the end of the Sengoku Jidai. They were banned under the Tokugawa shogunate, hence their radical redesign from 4 suits of 12 cards (1 thru 9, Female Knave, Knight, King) each to 12 suits of 4 cards each, with no foreign or gambling-related symbolism to avoid the ban.

Ha! Since childhood I have called the suits: hearts, clovers, shovels & diamonds!

Wait, euchre uses the jokers?

The three suits of the Chinese money cards makes me think they're the inspiration to the Mahjong suits. Which also said to represent coins, string of coins and myriad of coins equating to circles, bamboo and character suits respectively.

Thats awesome

Love your vids, always happy to see another one pop up, thanks!

La Hire wishes to kill something 😅

Where did you find the information on the specific Kings and Queens? I had heard about this before, but have not been able to verify it. I'd be very curious to see a reputable source for that.

A lot of history missing - no mention of the trumps (tarots) of tarot deck (which probably inspired the jokers), no mention of how jacks and knights used to be used simultaneously....

All in all, a pretty good video though

German 52 card decks actually have 3 jokers, and most German games also use them. So, no throwing away here 😊

The old German suits (acorn etc.) are also still very common esp. in the south and the east. They are typically used for a 32 cards deck starting at 7 to play THE German pub card game called Skat (a bit like bridge, but for 3 players).

I like this channel.

Keep it up. 👍

Chalices, Scimitars, Coins, Polo sticks
Me, who's familiar with Tarrot: Oh.

Always a highlight in my feed to see an upload from this channel. Love these interesting obscure topics

Cool toe workout, havent seen that anywhere

Halk-bell???
It's hawk-bell...

For those of you who don't recognize the book of Judith, it's only considered part of the Bible if you're Catholic or Orthodox. Protestants usually don't include it in their Bible, or only do so as part of the Apocrypha.

I wonder if the Joker cards were inspired or derived from the Fool card from Tarot decks? Also if they were meant to add on to the other card designs to fill up a whole sheet of card stock for economy of printing and trimming purposes?

we always used joker cards to replace missing or damaged cards.

Modern euchre doesn't use the Jokers 😂

Hi this is a very educational video and lika i said very educational

I collect jokers.

I always throw the Joker cards away. The next deck I get I'll keep them and learn to play old maid. I think Jokers are in that game too.

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This is a great explanation

First comment:
This is a great explanation