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  • It is macabre, uses a gimmick of translucent playing-cards to neat effect, and has story-telling elements built in, as you try to lower the Self-Worth score for your family while making everyone else's families happier.

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  • So despite all these tries to use more medieval materials for the tablets, I always returned to my trusty playing-cards for weaving work.

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  • So despite all these tries to use more medieval materials for the tablets, I always returned to my trusty playing-cards for weaving work.

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  • The success of a deck of playing-cards, as a gaming tool, is also due in no small way to its ergonomic physical attributes.

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  • A multi-dimensional system of relations between cards, and various subsets of cards, is essential to the versatility of a successful deck of playing-cards.

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  • Thus, such a deck would provide the opportunity for new and unique games that are not possible with decks of emblematic playing-cards.

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  • Mosaic playing-cards - This was the most promising looking patent I've seen all year.

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  • While many unique decks of playing-cards exist, the state of the art is overwhelmingly emblematic, employing symbolic marks on the card's playing face.

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  • A new gaming tool and method of game play including an unconventional deck of playing-cards not employing symbolic relations, but rather employing actual relations between rectilinear geometric regions.

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  • The playing-cards preferably employ geometric interactions of reflection, complementarity, contrariety, and identity.

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