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by **BaBaBoom** » Nov 7th, '03, 15:31

Standard Deck

To aid your bicycle use and misuse :
http://www.cards4magic.co.uk/acatalog/Bicycle_Fake_Decks_and_Cards.html

See all the bicycle back designs, old and new :
http://www.nls.physics.ucsb.edu/~nathanb/cards/realpictureindex.html

World Records :
http://www.recordholders.org/en/records/cardsorting.html You thought I should get out more? Card sorting, the art of doing it quickly
http://www.recordholders.org/en/list/memory-cards.html Try and guess how many decks somebody memorised!

Largest Card Fan :
Ralf Laue
Held 326 standard playing cards in a fan in one hand, so that the value and color of each one was visible, in Leipzig, Germany, on March 18, 1994

Largest Jumbo Card Production :
Naipes Heraclio Fournier
Produced 150 packs of jumbo playing cards, each card measuring 37in x 26.5 in. Vitoria, Spain, on October 29, 1998

Farthest Card Toss :
Rick Smith
Threw a standard playing card 216 feet, 4 inches at Cleveland State Convocation Center, Cleveland OH on March 21, 2002

Tallest House of Cards :
Bryan Berg
Built a card house 120 stories high (each story being the length of one card) in Las Vegas (televised on Guinness' TV show)

Fastest Deck Memorization :
Tom Groves
Memorized the order of single deck of cards in 42.01 seconds, Jesus College, Cambridge, England, On November 3rd, 1994

Most Expensive Deck of Cards :
The highest price paid for a deck of cards is $143,352 purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City at Sotheby's in London, on December 6, 1983. The cards, circa 1470-85, are believed to be the oldest known complete hand-painted deck

Most Expensive Single Playing Card :
The highest price paid for a single card is $7450 for a card dated 1717, which was used as currency in Canada. It was sold by dealer Yasha Beresiner to Lars Karlson (Sweden) in October 1990

Most Charlier Cuts in 30 Seconds (Unofficial Record) :
Ashford Kneitel reports that he bested the record of 24 Charlier cuts in 30 seconds. Ashford can do 28

Card games? :
http://thehouseofcards.com/
http://www.mystery-games.com/cardgames.html
http://www.microsoft.com/games/bicycle/card/ Microsoft and Bicycle?! Expect a security patch for your cards soon
http://www.pagat.com/ Rules and information about card and tile games from all parts of the world

Play Free Card Games :
http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3001-2647-10249700.html 123 Free Solitaire, many free games in one file, freeware
[url]http://www.netsolitaire.com/[/url Net Solitaire, free online solitaire games collection, freeware
http://download.com.com/3000-2647-10200586.html?tag=lst-0-8 Iraqi Most Wanted Solitaire, freeware

I hope that has helped somebody pass a few hours at work or helped with some easy gift ideas. We all use the same two or three brands I guess but for the themed trick, maybe you think a difference is nice or gives a reason to switch packs.
If anybody is stuck for what to get me, I'm sure this has been a hot topic in the MO section, I'll have another of the top link ta

BaB

Have now added many more links due to me being slightly mad

I do not see any popups so if you see anything annoying please tell me and I will remove it, also if you have anything you think should be added tell me and it's in.
Thanks for any help and enjoy,

BaB

by **Mandrake** » Nov 10th, '03, 13:26

That's a fantastic set of links which shows great dedication (or complete lunacy! :wink:

) and I'll be making very good use of some of them - thanks!!

by **BaBaBoom** » Nov 10th, '03, 15:13

I can't deny, I'll have to go for the latter.
:wink:

by **BaBaBoom** » Dec 28th, '03, 18:50

More added due to holiday boredom

There was talk of printing your own cards in a thread somewhere, I have added a link to almost that, a colour copier is needed rather than an inkjet but other than that it sounds perfect.
Anyway, enjoy and dare I say bump?
:oops:

BaB

by **BaBaBoom** » Dec 28th, '03, 21:43

lol, I think if it proves anything, it proves that magic is more important to me than it should be and somebody should cut my internet off

by **andycoates** » Jan 2nd, '04, 16:10

Bought a deck of the plastic see-through playing cards the other day, theyre a nice change but sometimes a little tricky to handle. But on another point you can be shamelessly be bad at doing double lifts and get away with it with these cards,

by **BaBaBoom** » Jan 10th, '04, 20:42

Nice aren't they

Seeing as you don't mind a different deck, how about trying these, Andy?
http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/ProductDetails.aspx?language=en-GB&product=STACAR
Think of it this way, if you don't like them you could always give them to me

I would love some of these in a nice frame on the wall but just can't justify it, dammit.

by **andycoates** » Jan 11th, '04, 19:30

Erm, Um.............er....WOW!

Lottery ticket going on tonite for next wednesdays draw.......

Dear Santa, i know alot of people say you dont exist and i know that its a little early but............

Niceone, cheers for the link..

by **BaBaBoom** » Jan 11th, '04, 20:06

Aren't they lovely, slurp.

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