Puzzle card symbols

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


General

Some of the cards have faint playing card symbols on. It has been speculated on Unfiction that these may be a deck order for a solitaire cipher appearing on Card 243. So far, all symbols appear on cards with prime numbers, so this list will reflect that, until proven otherwise.


A chart showing cards in order:

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

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.


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
E C? O?
7
- - -
6
- - -
5
- - -
4
- - -
3
- - -
2
- - -
Jkr

Full known letter compilation:

/IST/OLE/THE/CUB/EHE/LPM/E../.../.../.../.../.../.../

A list of cards and their symbols:

002
003
005
007
011 - Revelation (Q of Clubs)
013 - Sphinx (8 of Diamonds)
017 - Easy As... (A of Spades)
019 - Magic Numbers (J of Clubs)
023 - Pack 'O' Stars (K of Spades)
029
031
037
041 - Whipsmart Wordsearch (9 of Diamonds)
043 - Use Your Anterior Cingulate (J of Spades)
047 - Opposites Attract (9 of Clubs)
053 - Etaoin Schrdlu (K of Diamonds)
059 - Urban Myths (Q of Spades)
061
067
071
073 - Animal Magic (8 of Hearts)
079 - Strange Loops (10 of Clubs)
083 - Pawnbroking (A of Diamonds)
089 - Forever Foe (8 of Clubs)
097
101
103
107 - Blockword (J of Diamonds)
109 - Infinite Series (9 of Hearts)
113 - A Capital Idea (K of Clubs)
127
131
137 - Sub Rosa (Q of Diamonds)
139 - This Sentence Is False (9 of Spades)
149 - Complex Basic (Q of Hearts)
151 - Crazy Talk (A of Hearts)
157
163
167
173 - The 14-15 Puzzle (K of Hearts)
179 - By Another Name (10 of Hearts)
181 - Down, A, B, Up, Up, Right (10 of Diamonds)
191
193
197
199
211 - Molecular (A of Clubs)
223
227
229
233
239
241 - T-L-P (10 of Spades)
251 - The Thirteenth Labour (J of Hearts)

Primes

54 Prime numbers under 255 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