Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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Is Tim a gambler? He certainly has a lot of playing cards. However they are all rather unusual if not downright strange, so maybe they would not actually be all that good for gamblers!
The 'Zero' of diamonds? A six of spades where the symbols for the spade suit have all slipped down to one end... Tim has a theory as to how magicians use this type of card to deceive us!
Cards with very unusual shapes...
A trick deck with built in animation to show the card you have chosen...
A Swedish doctor friend spent 6 months visiting shops that sold playing cards before he could assemble his 'perfect deck'. 52 different cards... BUT all showing the King of Hearts. How are they different? They all have a different pattern on the back of the card! Of course, he was able to make up 52 of these decks of cards, all having the same 52 different backs, and each deck having just a single card showing on the face of the card. A very unusual idea!
An ordinary deck, but with a figure on the back doing a hula hoop exercise. Flick through the deck and he becomes animated!
Finally a playing card that has been carefully cut and folded, and now functions as a sun dial!
Visit Tim's Toy Shop, at grand-illusions.com
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Is Tim a gambler? He certainly has a lot of playing cards. However they are all rather unusual if not downright strange, so maybe they would not actually be all that good for gamblers!
The 'Zero' of diamonds? A six of spades where the symbols for the spade suit have all slipped down to one end... Tim has a theory as to how magicians use this type of card to deceive us!
Cards with very unusual shapes...
A trick deck with built in animation to show the card you have chosen...
A Swedish doctor friend spent 6 months visiting shops that sold playing cards before he could assemble his 'perfect deck'. 52 different cards... BUT all showing the King of Hearts. How are they different? They all have a different pattern on the back of the card! Of course, he was able to make up 52 of these decks of cards, all having the same 52 different backs, and each deck having just a single card showing on the face of the card. A very unusual idea!
An ordinary deck, but with a figure on the back doing a hula hoop exercise. Flick through the deck and he becomes animated!
Finally a playing card that has been carefully cut and folded, and now functions as a sun dial!
