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I was hoping to devise a memorised (half) deck by relating 26 cards to the phonetic alphabet. I'm trying to come up with easily memorable relationships between the phonetic word and a particular card.
e.g.
Golf .. 9 of Clubs (9 as in 9 hole course)
India .. Ace of Diamonds (As in Kohinoor, truly an ace amongst diamonds)
Juliet .. Queen of Hearts (Shakespeare)
Romeo .. King Of Hearts
Whiskey .. Jack Of Diamonds (Jack D)

I have managed to do all 26, but some of the relationships are VERY tenuious and I've had to resort to SHocked in places to cover the suits - which I don't like because I'd prefer the suit is wrapped up in the connection too - so I don't have to recall it seperatley.

If anyone would care to take up the challenge of dreaming up word/card connections, I'd appreciate your suggestions - maybe worth consideration post turkey, pre-Queen's speech?

PS: I'd like to stick to the NATO version if possible as that's the one we all know!

PPS: For some strange reason I know each letters numeric postion in the alphabet - so this could operate as a sequential or memorised deck for me.

Interesting idea but you will find that other methods are available that are maybe even a little easier. I've not read a lot on memory techniques but the memory section in Derren Brown's new book is very good. It will teach you, amoung other things, to memorise an entier deck of cards or basically anything that can be put into a list.

Get a copy of Mnemonica for starters... you'll not regret it.

Why not just Stebbins the deck? No memorisation required.

I think the famous 8-K is best since it requires hardly any memorisation and appears random when spread as for example demonstrated on "Green Lite" by Lennart Green.

8-K is wonderful for a bridge demonstration (if you can force a bridge playing spectator).

If you want a lot of build-in effects (poker deals, bridge deals as well as powerful mental revalations) Arensons Stack is best. It is hard to learn (took me at least a few weeks) since you have to be able to know is absolutely cold.

I take it you guys don't think the world is ready for another stack? I was just hoping to come up with something very easy to recall which would take the shufflemeter off the scale.

If anyone thinks this could be a worthy pursuit and wants to wast.. spend some time thinking up associations it may help to use the tarot equiv's of each suit if required (C=wands/rods, H=cups, S=Swords, D=Coins/pentacles).

Feel free to mention your favourite stack along the way