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Card Game Inventions

By drawing on a range of traditional and artistic sources, we have created a number of new card games for your enjoyment.

Bauhaus Signals

A two factor matching pack featuring 3-dot traffic light cards in the Bauhaus colours

Bird and Flower

A gallery card pack based on the seasons, featuring 72 of the woodblocks from Keinen's Bird and Flower albums.

Celtin Twilight Hanafuda

A hanafuda pack based on the four Celtic treasures, and the 12 coloured winds of Ireland

Chinese Tarot

A tarot pack made using traditional Chinese cards and symbols

Chroma Cycle Ken

A ken-game using the cycle of colours, inspired by Bauhaus theories

Chroma Poker

A poker game with colour mixing, inspired by the theories of Bauhaus

Comet Tarock

A Tarock pack based on 18th century suits, and the Comet Book of 1587

Cottage Garden Hanafuda

A hanafuda pack based on a nineteenth century English Flower Garden game

Dessau Dominoes

A game of dominoes using the Bauhaus colours

Diamantina

A pack of cards set on an angle, allowing branched matching

Diamantina Royale

A version of our Diamantina deck with Baccari-style 12 & 13-spots and a ROyal Ace

Diamantina Zodiac

A version of our Diamantina pack with Zodiac courts, using 19th century printer's cliches

Durer's Knots

A card game based on Durer's famous knot engravings

Faust

An Austrian pattern gallery pack with a different: the portraits are from the imaginings of Dr Faustus!

Fixed Stars

A divination pack based on the fixed stars

Genji-mon

A card-collecting game using the symbols and chapter tiltles from the Tale of Genji

Geomancia

A card-collecting game that uses the geomantic symbols

Geometria

A quittli-style game using a set of renaissance symbolic perspectives

Haiku Diaspora

A gallery pack using the cover illustrations and a sample poem from the Haiku Diaspora series

Hanabi Hanafuda

A hanafuda deck using firework illustrations from 19th century cataglogues

Harmonic Cabinet

A pack of cards with musical suits, drawn from the Harmonic Cabinet

Hierophancy

A divination pack made on the determinatives from the Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Janken

A game of rock paper and scissors, reimagined as a series prediction game

Kazuken

The original of rock paper scissors as animals, reimagined as a series prediction game

Kreuzspiel Rainbows

A game of card-collecting based on the 19th century German version of tangram Kreuzspiel

Labyrinth of Versaille

A maze-making and -following game, based on the lost Labyrinth of Versailles

Lost-your-glasses

A pack of cards designed for when you've lost your glasses

Matching Owls

A series-prediction game of heads and tails, using a coin from ancient Athens

Mushiken

The original of five-state rock paper scissors, reimagined as a series-prediction game

Nile Tarot

A tarot pack based on the symbology of Ancient Egypt, with four new minor arcana suits, and Egyptian numbering

Nokimarugawara

A game based on our Durer's Knots game, but using the ornamental roof tiles of old Japan

Ogdoad

A game of 8 coloured rainbows, mystical numbers, and the things you see when you close your eyes

Paintbox

A pack of cards based on the artist's paintbox, with the suits based on the original of the pigments

Phonetica

A game of making words out of sounds

Pugin's Floriate Hanatora

A gallery pack using symbols from the plates in Pugin's Floriate Ornamentation

Quincunx

A game based on a prisoner's deck found in pre-war Finland

Rainbow Tangram

A card-collecting game based on the patterns and colours of the tnagram

Rorschach Deck

A pack of cards based on Rorsharch blots

Simplicissimus

A two sided card game, based on the colours of Bauhaus

Stroop Effect Pack

Trick your card-sharp friends - red spade and clubs, black hearts and diamonds.

Tally-ho

A pack of cards based on the six ways people make tally marks

The Game of Snowflakes

A game of hexagonal dominoes, based on 19th century snowflake illustrations

The Game of Stems and Branches

A game based on the long cycle of years in the Chinese zodiac, with trump cards based on twelve magical creature

The Game of Thirty-Six Beasts

A game based on the dream book of ancient china

Trine

A pack of cards showcasing the ways the ancient north represented the number 3

Verneuil's Plants Hanafuda

A trio-hanafuda game using the illustrations from Verneuil's Plant Ornamentation

W B Yeats Tattwa

A divination pack using the Golden Dawn symbols sketched out by W B Yeats

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