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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.

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Card	Upright Number	Reversed Number	Shape	Risk Char	Red Dice	Blue Dice	Notes
Season 1 Card #29 - Beware the Puzzle Monsters	1-14443432.5-3	3-232.52.51.5-1					Card also contains playing card symbol.
Season 1 Card #40 - Baby On Board	2-11444414412-3	1-1144144414432.5-4	Image needed	2 Infantry	Red: 5, 4, 3	Blue: 4, 3	Attacker wins.
Season 1 Card #58 - Breaking And Entering	2-21122214-4	4-23232.534334-1	None	1 Cavalry	Red: 6, 3, 1	Blue: 6, 4	This card and card 60 overlay each other to create one set of red/blue dice and 1 cavalry figure. Defender wins.
Season 1 Card #60 - Celebration	1-414141414144144441-1	4-44444444111111111114-3	None	1 Cavalry	Red: 6, 3, 1	Blue: 6, 4	This card and card 58 overlay each other to create one set of red/blue dice and 1 cavalry figure. Defender wins.
Season 1 Card #63 - The Next Generation	3-34-1	2-414441141-1
Season 1 Card #90 - Also Known As	4-4444444443.5-1	3-433333334-2	None	3 Infantry	Red: 4, 4, 3	Blue: 6, 3	Attacker and defender lose an army each.
Season 1 Card #94 - Prime Rhyme Crime	2-4111111441-2	1-1114112321-1					Numbers are vertical.
Season 1 Card #96 - Castle in The Sky	1-222233332-4	3-44411414441444112.5-4
Season 1 Card #136 - Bling Bunny	3-2333234-1	4-143334-3					Numbers are vertical.
Season 1 Card #156 - Going Dotty	2-111221111112-4	2-2232-4	None				Numbers are vertical. This card has writing revealed under a black light.
Season 1 Card #188 - Hybridization	4-11122221412234-2	2-21121111221-4
Season 1 Card #191 - My Dear Watson	2-11444444444411111111444-2	1-344411444443-1
Season 1 Card #192 - Pronunciation	3-3333322333332-4	1-444444114411112-1
Season 1 Card #203 - Ecliptic	4-33223333234-4	3-11144144144443-3	None				Numbers are vertical.
Season 1 Card #218 - The World	2-4444433333323-2	1-44334-3
Season 1 Card #222 - Instigator	4-1414411122-2	3-34433333432-4	None				Numbers are vertcal.
Season 1 Card #235 - Circuitous	1-4444444434444444444443-4	4-222233332222.5-1
Season 1 Card #236 - Swarms	4-4333223323-3	3-2112223-2	None
Season 1 Card #237 - Roaming Identity	3-3333334433334-1	2-1222323-2					Numbers are vertical.
Season 1 Card #250 - Manoeuvers	4-3322333333333332-1	1-343-2
Season 1 Card #253 - Sightseeing	1-1111211112-4	2-111114441114114-1

Season 1 Card #084 - Insights Unrelated to the others, it says "27.55.25.34.4.43.500.15.18.55.13.1.10.30.56.55.39.21.7.16.27.55.25.69.29.35.62.55" Season 1 Card #223 - Secret Location Unrelated to the others, in a hard-to-see yellow text it says "100, 139, 6, 148, 62, 127, 118, 119, 131, 151, 146, 88, 135, 107, 112, 152, 124, 150, 130, 100, 147, 93, 121, 149, 134, 144, 126, 98, 133, 103, 143, 116, 63, 111, 91, 101, 70, 61, 106, 62, 76, 117, 123, 84, 102, 89, 115, 96, 137, 92, 85, 122, 87, 53, 104, 90, 145".

Observations

Numbers range from 1-4, including 1.5, 2.5, and 3.5.
There are a total of 42 numbers.
There are 42 territories in Risk.
There are 11 numbers that start with "1-" and "2-" each, and 10 numbers that start with "3-" and "4-".
In a 4-player game of Risk, two players start with 11 territories and two start with 10 territories.

Speculations

The Start Numbers, or those before the first dash character, identify a player.
The Middle Numbers, or those between the dashes, could represent a path, where 1=South, 2=West, 3=North, 4=East.
The Middle Numbers could represent conquests on a Risk map.
The End Numbers, or those after the second dash, could identify a player who ends up in control of a territory in Risk.

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

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 {{Card|084|Insights}} Unrelated to the others, it says "27.55.25.34.4.43.500.15.18.55.13.1.10.30.56.55.39.21.7.16.27.55.25.69.29.35.62.55"
+{{Card|223|Secret Location}} Unrelated to the others, in a hard-to-see yellow text it says "100, 139, 6, 148, 62, 127, 118, 119, 131, 151, 146, 88, 135, 107, 112, 152, 124, 150, 130, 100, 147, 93, 121, 149, 134, 144, 126, 98, 133, 103, 143, 116, 63, 111, 91, 101, 70, 61, 106, 62, 76, 117, 123, 84, 102, 89, 115, 96, 137, 92, 85, 122, 87, 53, 104, 90, 145".
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