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 ...

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Flagship game: Junior hanafuda, a centuries-old style of Japanese playing cards reimagined with a punchy, modern design. For Louie Mantia, it all started with an emoji. An icon designer by trade, ...

Over centuries, Ganjifa changed form and style by adopting Indian motifs but at heart it remained a strategy game. THE OLD AND THE NEW: Old Ganjifa cards (L) and those designed by Shah “For me, the ...

Nintendo might be synonymous with video games today, but the company actually got its start as a playing card company. Founded in 1889, Nintendo originally produced Hanafuda--a type of card used to ...

Playing cards are known and used the world over—and almost every corner of the globe has laid claim to their invention. The Chinese assert the longest pedigree for card playing (the “game of leaves” ...

The composition and design of playing card decks varied with time and locale (particularly the number of cards in a deck), but the inclusion of both numbered cards and court cards (or "royals") — and ...