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 was been speculated on Unfiction that these may be a deck order for a solitaire cipher appearing on Shuffled, Card 243, 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.

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