A it’s finally here! My fourth Card Review for Cardoholics Anonymous. It’s been a long time coming but I have had a more than interesting end of year with some intriguing developments that are scheduled to unfold in 2012. This time round I have spared you my in-video comments opting instead to let the cards speak for themselves. However before you dive into watching this video review I thought I would brief you regarding the decks you will be see in this video review.
The first deck is a standard deck from Carta Mundi published in Belgium. The unique feature of this deck lies in the elaborate picture cards which do not have the customary indices K for King, Q for Queen and J for Jack. Instead you have R for Roi or King in French, D for Damme or Queen in French and finally V for Valet the French word for Jack. Indices are small on the other cards and would be ideal for playing games where one would be expected to hold a substantial number of cards in hand. Interestingly as you will also note from the video, this deck comes with an extra card indicating scoring for a standard game of Bridge.
the Second deck you will be seeing is a set of Chinese Money Cards which are most probably sold in the vicinity of the Karpal Ferry in Indonesia. These cards are diminutive in size, a fraction of the size of a standard pack of cards. The cards themselves are divided into three suits, coins, strings of coins and myriads. these are highly stylized sets and are rather difficult to identify if you do not happen to be accustomed to these decks and the games they are employed in. Each suit runs from 1 to 9 and there are two of every card. In addition there are also three pairs of jokers cards. Colour are almost totally absent from these decks save for red stamp-like additions on the nines of one of the suits as well as on some of the joker cards.
The last two decks are what are known as Mahjongg decks. They can be used to play standard games of Chinese and Japanese Mahjongg since all the suites are represented. You get coins, bamboos, Characters in addition to the customary three dragons (red, green and white) four winds and 8 bonus cards divided into four season tiles and four flower cards. As per the tile-based version of Mahjongg you also here get four of each card in each of the three suits.
Now go ahead and give the video s spin, until next time.
0 comments:
Post a Comment