Puzzle card symbols

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General

Some of the Puzzle Cards have faint playing card symbols on. It was been speculated on Unfiction that these may be a deck order for a solitaire cipher appearing on Season 1 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.

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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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

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

/IST/OLE/THE/CUB/EHE/LPM/..O/MB./.TH/UND/ER./LA./.../

Guess:

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

Cards with symbols


Season 1 Card #002 - Designer Flakes 8 of Spades
Season 1 Card #003 - Earth, Sea, and Moon 7 of Clubs
Season 1 Card #005 - Out on a Limb 7 of Hearts
Season 1 Card #007 - Aromarama 6 of Clubs
Season 1 Card #011 - Revelation Q of Clubs
Season 1 Card #013 - Sphinx 8 of Diamonds
Season 1 Card #017 - Easy as... A of Spades
Season 1 Card #019 - Magic Numbers J of Clubs
Season 1 Card #023 - Pack'0'Stars K of Spades
Season 1 Card #029 - Beware the Puzzle Monsters 7 of Diamonds
Season 1 Card #031 - St. Ives 7 of Spades
Season 1 Card #037 - Muscae Volitantes 6 of Diamonds
Season 1 Card #041 - Whipsmart Wordsearch 9 of Diamonds
Season 1 Card #043 - Bookworm J of Spades
Season 1 Card #047 - Opposites Attract 9 of clubs
Season 1 Card #053 - Etaion Schrlu K of Diamonds
Season 1 Card #059 - Urban Myths Q of Spades
Season 1 Card #061 - Ticket to Ride 5 of Clubs
Season 1 Card #067 - Popcorn 6 of Hearts
Season 1 Card #071 - Discovery 6 of Spades
Season 1 Card #073 - Animal Magic 8 of Hearts
Season 1 Card #079 - Strange loops 10 of Clubs
Season 1 Card #083 - Pawnbroking A of Diamonds
Season 1 Card #089 - Forever Foe 8 of Clubs
Season 1 Card #097 - 419 Scam 5 of Diamonds
Season 1 Card #101 - Petals around the Rose 5 spades
Season 1 Card #103 - Sudoku 4 of Clubs
Season 1 Card #107 - Blockword J of Diamonds
Season 1 Card #109 - Infinite Series 9 of Hearts
Season 1 Card #113 - A Capital Idea K of Clubs
Season 1 Card #127 - Card House 5 of Hearts
Season 1 Card #131 - Detail 4 of Diamonds
Season 1 Card #137 - Sub Rosa Q of Diamonds
Season 1 Card #139 - This Sentence is False 9 of Spades
Season 1 Card #149 - Complex Basic Q of Hearts
Season 1 Card #151 - Crazy Talk A of Hearts
Season 1 Card #157 - International Superhits 3 of Diamonds
Season 1 Card #163 - Domino Dilemma 4 of Hearts
Season 1 Card #167 - Circular 4 spades
Season 1 Card #173 - The 14-15 Puzzle K of Hearts
Season 1 Card #179 - By Another Name 10 of Hearts
Season 1 Card #181 - Down,A,B,Up,Up,Right 10 of Diamonds
Season 1 Card #191 - My Dear Watson 3 of Spades
Season 1 Card #193 - Three Thousand Words 3 of Clubs
Season 1 Card #197 - Linguini Junction 3 of Hearts
Season 1 Card #199 - Three 2 of Clubs
Season 1 Card #211 - Molecular A of Clubs
Season 1 Card #223 - Secret Location Joker
Season 1 Card #227 - NAND 2 of Diamonds
Season 1 Card #229 - Ball Night 2 of Hearts (needs checking)
Season 1 Card #233 - The Earth's Destiny 2 of Spades (by elimination - it's the only card left)
Season 1 Card #239 - Persian Joker
Season 1 Card #241 - T-L-P 10 of Spades
Season 1 Card #251 - The Thirteenth Labour J of Hearts

Primes

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

See also

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