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CARD GAMES

"Card games—however much disparaged by people who don’t happen to care for them—have made a contribution of great value to the pattern of Western civilization. They offer intellectual stimulus; harmless excite­ment; and, above all, an occasional respite from the incessant strain to which we are all subject in a frightening and frightened world." Hubert Phillips

Packs of cards can be tiny art galleries, featuring the elegance of an artist book in a pocketsize looseleaf codex.

The Flowerdew press has many packs of cards for idle hours, or hours you would like to fill with idleness.

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CARD GAME INVENTIONS

Invented games involve new games with new packs of cards, 
Try your hand at the Game of 36 Beasts, or explore the realms of colour and form with the Ogdoadic deck!

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CARD GAME REVIVALS & RECREATIONS

Play a 1920s game of colour theory, or go on adventures with Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Play the mathematician's game of Mephisto, and wager on the Faust Card! Match the couples on the Island of Mutes with Punchinello Vampire!

CARD PACK TIME MACHINE

Buy a new old pack of cards. Play with new editions of the classics of the past, including the Cloister set, the oldest existing complete European card set. 

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CARD GAME REINVENTIONS

Reinvented games: reimagine existing games with new or altered packs that change the probabilities behind the rules of those games. Try your hand at Uncourtly Pontoon or Pataphysical Hanafuda!

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CREATE-A-PACK

Make a pack out of pack components to suit your game needs. Add swords or bullets or motleys to a the French pattern suit, or perhaps mix Spanish pattern suits with elephants and terrapins

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GALLERY PACKS

Gallery Packs of Cards: art history in your pocket but not on a phone! Reviving the tradition of card packs as galleries.

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TAROT AND TAROCK PACKS

Tarot packs have a joint history of divination and card-play. We have several packs suitable for either, featuring artwork by Horton, Dufy and views of the years 2000 from 1900!

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AMBIDEXTRAL PACKS

Play cards left- or right-handed with a special series of our Timon Schroeter cards with four indices.

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