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Speaking of which, it applies to hobbies I don't usually even think about as needing anything that isn't lying around.
Over the Christmas holiday a lot of the decks for multiple person solitaire were missing cards. The local drugstore had a bunch of Bicycle brand playing cards with different, really pretty backs (and you need each deck to have different decks). The $5.49-$10.99 a pack seemed awful, but thankfully it was buy one get one and there were five or six different $5.99 ones.
The boxes didn't show the freaking front of the cards though! One of them had outliney suit symbols in the body of the card that made it hard to tell the spade from the club from across the table (let my 13yo keep that one so that it won't be used in the future). Another had the card back in aqua related colors that made it hard to see at all (a niece got that one since she liked it). The one where the blacks were a bit bluish was fine and the fourth one seemed normal.
The other annoying ones are from one of the custom print card companies uses a different layout of the suit symbols on the numbered cards than the usual ones... and so it's hard to tell from across the table what number is up. (One for the town we vacation at, one with dogs playing poker on the back, etc...). In bridge the quality of those is such that they quickly become marked. In multiple person solitaire marked (or bent in half even) cards are kind of a fact of life.
Speaking of which, it applies to hobbies I don't usually even think about as needing anything that isn't lying around.
Over the Christmas holiday a lot of the decks for multiple person solitaire were missing cards. The local drugstore had a bunch of Bicycle brand playing cards with different, really pretty backs (and you need each deck to have different decks). The $5.49-$10.99 a pack seemed awful, but thankfully it was buy one get one and there were five or six different $5.99 ones.
The boxes didn't show the freaking front of the cards though! One of them had outliney suit symbols in the body of the card that made it hard to tell the spade from the club from across the table (let my 13yo keep that one so that it won't be used in the future). Another had the card back in aqua related colors that made it hard to see at all (a niece got that one since she liked it). The one where the blacks were a bit bluish was fine and the fourth one seemed normal.
The other annoying ones are from one of the custom print card companies uses a different layout of the suit symbols on the numbered cards than the usual ones... and so it's hard to tell from across the table what number is up. (One for the town we vacation at, one with dogs playing poker on the back, etc...). In bridge the quality of those is such that they quickly become marked. In multiple person solitaire marked (or bent in half even) cards are kind of a fact of life.
