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General

Some of the Puzzle Cards have faint playing card symbols, risk soldiers, dice, number strings, and obscure shapes on them.

Playing Cards and Large Letters

Each card with a playing symbol also has part of a letter faintly printed over the card in a slab-serif font, and it's anticipated that arranging all the playing symbol cards in order will eventually depict the whole message. All symbols appear on cards with prime numbers. 54 Prime numbers under 256 are as follows:

2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47 53 59 61 67 71 73 79 83 89 97 101 103 107 109 113 127 131 137 139 149 151 157 163 167 173 179 181 191 193 197 199 211 223 227 229 233 239 241 251

Chart of cards with letters

Note the groupings of playing card symbols goes Club-Diamond-Heart-Spade, from Ace to 2 (ace high), forming 13 sets of 3 letters.

	Clubs		Diamonds		Hearts		Spades
Ace	211		083		151		017
		I		S		T
K	113		053		173		023
		O		L		E
Q	011		137		149		059
		T		H		E
J	019		107		251		043
		C		U		B
10	079		181		179		241
		E		H		E
9	047		041		109		139
		L		P		M
8	089		013		073		002
		E		C		O
7	003		029		005		031
		M		B		E
6	007		037		067		071
		D		T		H
5	061		097		127		101
		U		N		D
4	103		131		163		167
		E		R		C
3	193		157		197		191
		L		A		P
2	199		227		229		233
		-		-		-
Jkr	223		239

This appears to be correct, tho pieces are missing, and it doesnt make an awful lot of sense at the moment.

/IST/OLE/THE/CUB/EHE/LPM/ECO/MBE/DTH/UND/ERC/LAP/.../

The apparent message reads:

I stole the Cube. Help me. Combed Thunderclap.

Cards which are part of this collection

Cards With Strange Shapes

29:

63:

94:

96:

136:

188:

191:

192:

218:

235:

237:

250:

253:

Cards With Number Strings

029 1-14443432.5-3 and 3-232.52.51.5-1
040 2-11444414412-3 and 1-1144144414432.5-4
058 2-21122214-4 and 4-23232.534334-1
060 1-414141414144144441-1 and 4-44444444111111111114-3
063 3-34-1 and 2-414441141-1
090 4-4444444443.5-1 and 3-433333334-2
094 2-4111111441-2 and 1-1114112321-1 (vertical)
096 1-222233332-4 and 3-44411414441444112.5-4
136 3-2333234-1 and 4-143334-3 (vertical)
156 2-111221111112-4 and 2-2232-4 (vertical)
188 4-11122221412234-2 and 2-21121111221-4
191 2-11444444444411111111444-2 and 1-344411444443-1
192 3-3333322333332-4 and 1-444444114411112-1
203 4-33223333234-4 and 3-11144144144443-3 (vertical)
218 2-4444433333323-2 and 1-44334-3
222 4-1414411122-2 and 3-34433333432-4 (vertical)
235 1-4444444434444444444443-4 and 4-222233332222.5-1
236 4-4333223323-3 and 3-2112223-2
237 3-3333334433334-1 and 2-1222323-2 (vertical)
250 4-332233333333332-1 and 1-343-2
253 1-1111211112-4 and 2-111114441114114-1

Please see Brian Enigma's impressive Card Catalog for a sorted, comprehensive listing of cards.

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 == General ==
-Some of the [[Puzzle Cards]] have faint playing card symbols on. It was been speculated on [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11528&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30 Unfiction] that these may be a deck order for a solitaire cipher appearing on {{Card|243|Shuffled}} (See: [[Shuffled]]) but this appears to have been discredited. Each card with a playing symbol also has part of a letter faintly printed over the card in a slab-serif font, and it's anticipated that arranging all the playing symbol cards in order will eventually depict the whole message. So far, all symbols appear on cards with prime numbers, so this list will reflect that, until proven otherwise.
+Some of the [[Puzzle Cards]] have faint playing card symbols, risk soldiers, dice, number strings, and obscure shapes on them.
-== Chart of cards with letters ==
+==Playing Cards and Large Letters==
+Each card with a playing symbol also has part of a letter faintly printed over the card in a slab-serif font, and it's anticipated that arranging all the playing symbol cards in order will eventually depict the whole message. All symbols appear on cards with prime numbers.  54 Prime numbers under 256 are as follows:
+3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47 53 59 61 67 71 73 79 83 89 97 101 103 107 109 113 127 131 137 139 149 151 157 163 167 173 179 181 191 193 197 199 211 223 227 229 233 239 241 251
+=== Chart of cards with letters ===
 Note the groupings of playing card symbols goes Club-Diamond-Heart-Spade, from Ace to 2 (ace high), forming 13 sets of 3 letters.
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 |}
-=== Other notes ===
-* Don't trust the black colouring 100% in the card catalogue - there may be a couple of cards that don't match by that alone - the original card should be re-checked to ensure accuracy of the black colourings.
-* Cards aren't necessarily evenly cut down or across the middle of each letter, making calculating possibilities difficult.
-* The font used is a simple thick seriffed font.
-* The position of the Jokers may not be correct.
-== Known letters ==
 This appears to be correct, tho pieces are missing, and it doesnt make an awful lot of sense at the moment.
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 :'''I stole [[the Cube]].  Help me.  Combed Thunderclap.'''
-== Cards with symbols ==
+=== Cards which are part of this collection ===
 <br />{{Card|002|Designer Flakes}} 8 of Spades
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 <br />{{Card|251|The Thirteenth Labour}} J of Hearts
-== Primes ==
-Prime numbers under 256 are as follows:
-3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47 53 59 61 67 71 73 79 83 89 97 101 103 107 109 113 127 131 137 139 149 151 157 163 167 173 179 181 191 193 197 199 211 223 227 229 233 239 241 251
 == Cards With Strange Shapes ==
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 #253: [[Image:253shape.png]]
 == Cards With Number Strings ==
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 #253 1-1111211112-4 and 2-111114441114114-1
-== See also ==
-* [http://www.kallisti.nildram.co.uk/letters.jpg Current Letters] -- Card images through Wave 3.
-* [[Puzzle Card List]]
 {{CardCat}}

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