For the book, this was probably true for the actual rules, this is somewhat more up-in-the-air. The stylings of the book, and perhaps purposely archaic language, gave me the impression of the book and its rules only being as old as, say, the 1960s or 1970s. I’m pretty sure this was the one I owned, anyway. My first deck was probably an UNO set, but subsequently I learned to play with real cards (primarily War and Crazy Eights) through the book, Play According to Hoyle. As a young lad, I admittedly learned of the common playing card from watching my dad play Solitaire for Windows. But it’s not just the cards, but the games, that took me by surprise. My initial mental image was of bored knights and nobility in the days of Charlemagne, but even earlier examples are recorded in 9th century China, with the common suits and face-cards in common usage today coming from France by way of Germany in the 14th century. That’s the axiom I went by when I came up with the idea for this website, but of course I never imagined I’d be using it on myself. Games played with cards are much older than one would think.
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