Instructive and Educational Playing Cards & Games
Many packs are instructive or educational and designed to facilitate learning rather than just for play. Educational playing cards are a great way to learn new facts, or to review information that you already know. When the design of the illustrations is appropriate and amusing this helps to engage the imagination in the topic which can then be memorised more easily.
• See also: History of Educational and Instructive playing cards►
Naipes Cristianos
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by Simon Wintle
“Naipes Cristianos” catechetical playing cards with quotations from the four gospels, 2002.
National Geographic: Weird But True
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by Matt Probert
National Geographic: “Weird But True” kids fun fact playing cards, 2014.
Nationalities
“Nationalities”, the people of many nations, published by the Fireside Game Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, c.1897.
Night & Day playing cards
‘Night & Day’ playing cards produced by London Underground, United Kingdom
O Baralho dos Provérbios!
Portuguese proverbs in combination with special courts and suit-signs published by Apenas Livros, Lisbon.
Old West Guns
Old West Guns playing cards containing information about firearms from the Old West, USA.
Ordnance Recognition
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by Simon Wintle
Ordnance Recognition Playing Cards cards designed to help people at risk from unexploded bombs
Paper and Cardboard
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by Simon Wintle
The manufacture of the pasteboard used for playing cards contains a number of interesting processes including mingling, pasting and drying.
Periodic Table playing cards
Periodic Table playing cards produced by Synheme Inc., Canada, c. 2006-2007.
Population
The game of Population was first published by the Fireside Game Co., Cincinnati, USA (a division of United States Playing Card Co), in c.1896
Postgeschichte
A celebration of different postal systems in Germany from 1630 to 1850, with designs by Volker Hartmann.
Quits
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by Simon Wintle
Jaques' Quits card game, c.1880-85, with portraits of monarchs inside suit symbols in red, blue and yellow, designed to assist in the education of school children in British history.
Radical playing cards
Radical playing cards, identifying radical characters from history, United Kingdom, 2021
Rainbow
Rainbow card game and colour mixing guide printed by Goodall & Sons for Robert Johnson, c.1920.
Red & White Wine playing cards
Red & White Wine playing cards published by Inkstone Design, USA, 2003.