Did you know that the traditional deck of playing cards are a veritable and most ingenious form of calendar?* There are 52 weeks in the year and 52 playing cards
* There are 13 weeks in each season and there are also 13 cards in each suit.
* There are 4 seasons and 4 suits
* There are 12 months of the year and 12 Court cards (those which have faces)
* The Red cards represent the Day, the Black cards the Night
* If you let the Jacks = 11, the Queens = 12, and the Kings = 13, then add up all the sums of 1 + 2 + 3 + …to 13 = 91 Multiply this by 4, for the 4 suits; 91 x 4 = 364 then add 1 that is the Joker and you will arrive at the number of days in the year? Is that mere coincidence? or a greater intelligence* Of interest is the sum of the letters in all the names of the cards; eg : add up the letters in "one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, Jack, Queen, King" = 52 !
Saturday, 4 March 2017
Magic figures of playing cards
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