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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
Some time ago, I bought a double deck of cards at a dollar store. First time I tried to shuffle them, one of the cards split in two!
They were NOT the worse cards ever as I couldn’t have expected much better for the price! 2015, I picked up a deck of cards at Walt Disney World honoring the Haunted Mansion. Four dollars for a pack of bridge cards! I thought I could just practice a bit, and I’d left my Bikes in the luggage. THEY qualify as the worse cards ever! Bridge size didn’t bother me, neither did the bizarre pip design. The finish! It seems like they were finished in old emory paper! I couldn’t do a fan, couldn’t do a slide, if you were just buying them for card games, you’d be hard pressed to get your hand slid open with all the cards visible! I gave them to my daughter the goth. She likes them.
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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Orville Smith New user 87 Posts |
If I had cruddy cards like that, I would use them for the Card-Warp trick. After all,in the trick, the cards are torn up anyway. In other words,disposability. I don't think the slide-defect would apply in this case.
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
At $4.00 a deck? Doesn’t seem very practical to me.
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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imgic Inner circle Moved back to Midwest to see 1337 Posts |
Recently I picked up 88 cent pack of Mavericks from WallyMart. Hadn’t used Mavericks since I was a kid, remember they weren the best, but thought I’d get some practice with them and then could use them for card warp or other such effects. The darn things are now made of plastic! Not card stocked covered in some typie of laminate...they’re plastic! Too slippery to handle, lousy to fold and tear. Would be good for camping I guess...
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
There used to be an annual music festival in Newport. One year, there was a riot. I went through the festival field the next day and, in the torn up waiting area, I found a deck of plastic bridge cards. They were scattered throughout the room and I wondered how many of them I could find. Turns out I found the entire deck and the box. Kept that deck for about five years or so and never had s problem with them. Mind you, I was never a knuckle buster, you’d probably have hated them!
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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ringmaster Inner circle Memphis, Down in Dixie 1974 Posts |
I once got a deck of Chinese cards called Puke, packed with a card themed coffee cup They weren't misnamed. The finish was like sandpaper, really. The clung together better than R&S's. Nice to see truth in advertising.
One of the last living 10-in-one performers. I wanted to be in show business the worst way, and that was it.
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lynnef Inner circle 1407 Posts |
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On Dec 7, 2017, imgic wrote: Mavericks used to be fairly decent! Now they are not just plastic, but thick plastic. At least you got a better deal... I had to pay a dollar! Lynn |
ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
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On Dec 8, 2017, ringmaster wrote: I wonder if the same company is making the WDW decks?
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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lynnef Inner circle 1407 Posts |
The 'new' Mavericks are distributed by the US Playing Card Company; but they are made in China. Back many decades, "made in Japan" often meant inferior quality. Obviously not so today (cars, guitars, etc). Perhaps in time, we may see even better playing cards made in China. But now, I guess I stick with the Bikes, Bees, and Tally-Ho's. Lynn
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ringmaster Inner circle Memphis, Down in Dixie 1974 Posts |
The word Puke is Chinese for circus. The cards are made in Shanghai.
One of the last living 10-in-one performers. I wanted to be in show business the worst way, and that was it.
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