[Edu] Gnostica question

[Don Sheldon]

In addition to the great suggestions already offered, a pair of
identical regular decks of playing cards will also work (and where I
shop that's even how they're sold).  Let 1-10 of each suit be just as
ever with the normal pairings (which I think is swords->spades,
clubs->wands, hearts->cups, diamonds->pentacles, but don't quote me on
that) those don't even need stickers.  Let jacks be paiges, let a jack
from the second deck be knights, and queens and kings are queens and
kings.  To distinguish the two jacks you'll need stickers (or, since
the "order" of royalty only matters during bidding, you can choose to
not bother).  That leaves you with your duplicate 1-10 plus Q + K from
the second deck as well as all four jokers to turn into your faux
major arcana, with 30 cards to spare.

Just make sure to redo your stickers with spade/diamond/heart/club
instead of tarot suits and all the iconography works from there.

Tangent: I find this utter amusing because, if I recall, the Tarot was
a way of hiding gnostic teachings from society, and now the Tarot is
being hidden so that kids can play Gnostica.

On 2/26/07, miyu <xmiyux at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm curious if there exists a deck of cards that would not look like nor be
> anything like tarot to use to try Gnostica out.  I would be interested in
> letting the kids test out the game but there is not a chance in the world
> I'm going to be the teacher who has a tarot deck in the classroom *laugh*.
> I was just curious before I looked into creating a deck just for use with
> the game in school.
>
> Actually I may still make a deck, perhaps commission some kids to do the art
> for individual cards.  It could be neat to laminate their art and they know
> the club plays with it after they have graduated and moved on.... something
> for me to think about...
>
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