Mini One Deck
One small pack for playing card games, chess, checkers, domino games, dice games, and for use as poker chips.
How many different uses can one small pack of cards have? The answer is endless. This pack manages to combine traditional playing-card suits with chess pieces, dice, dominoes, poker chips, and a whole lot more, all in one square pocket-sized pack. The cards are printed in black, red and green only, with two different back colours available. The four extra cards (or jokers) display layouts for chess, checkers, dominoes, dice and backgammon. No rules are included. The cards have a fabric finish. This, the first edition, is marked as such on both the Ace of Spades and the box
Above: Mini One Deck published by Cartesian Cards, London, UK, 2023. Printed in China. 52 cards + 4 extra cards (which can be used as jokers) in tuck box. Size: 52 x 52 mm. ©2023 Cartesian Cards, London UK
The Cartesian Cards website mentions that the cards were printed by Cartamundi in the E.U.; however, on the tuck box it states that they were printed in China. Also on their website it mentions that there are two blank jokers included but neither of the two packs reviewed here contained such cards. Available here►
The same company has also now produced the world’s smallest pack and the world’s largest card, as verified by Guinness World Records. The inventor is Rob Hallifax.
By Roddy Somerville
France • Member since May 31, 2022
Roddy started collecting stamps on his 8th birthday. In 1977 he joined the newly formed playing-card department at Stanley Gibbons in London before setting up his own business in Edinburgh four years later. His collecting interests include playing cards, postcards, stamps (especially playing cards on stamps) and sugar wrappers. He is a Past President of the Scottish Philatelic Society, a former Chairman of the IPCS, a Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards and Curator of the WCMPC’s collection of playing cards. He lives near Toulouse in France.
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