Misprints and Rarities

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A few cards were part of limited print runs, were special promotions, or had errors or changes in printing. This page attempts to record them.

Promotional Cards

Gold Card

#257 - The Cube - gold
A limited run, only three hundred and thirty three of these cards exist
They do not have the silver scratch panel found on other puzzle cards
Card reverse features Mind Candy Design employees, Guest Puzzle Architects and Guest Artists
List of gold card holders

Group 333 cards

Given out with Sente's Letter to the Cube Hunters by solving a puzzle in the 22.04.05 Update. The parcel included several promotional cards with "Group 333" in the place of the silver scratch panel, some stickers, a tourist information packet, and a Leitmark.

2005 E3 cards

These were given out at the 2005 E3 conference, with one exception. Card #172 was not available in paper form, but was being shown in a film loop playing on a plasma television.

NY Toy Fair

2006 E3 card

TODO

2006 ComicCon Card (#P01)

1. P01 - Issue 0 - A Call From the Past - snowflake
Card reverse: "Solve the puzzle on the reverse of this card and go to booth #305 to claim your free pack of Perplex City cards."

Misprints

#007: Aromarama

TODO

#251: The Thirteenth Labour

In the recent print run of cards, about wave 3 or 4, a batch of #251's which were entirely purple emerged. These new purple-silver hybrids now apropriately displaying the difficulty level of #251, that of "Purple + Silver = Well hard" were welcomed by new and old players alike, amusing and confusing respectivly, and probably at the same time too. Below we'll have some scans of the original #251 and the new and, in my opinion (which is the one that counts) improved!

Print Changes

Several cards had minor changes, typically related to brightness or contrast, between print runs. The changes are not drastic enough to be considered "errors" exactly, but they are certainly visible changes.