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this feels like excellent foundations for a board game. fascinating!
21$ deck, 27$ delivery... no
Really cool deck! Anyone out there play Mu? It's an _excellent_ trick taking card game. One of the few (complex, trick-taking... I'm not counting stuff like Uno in this genre) card games that I know of that works really well with 5 or 6 players. This deck _almost_ would work for Mu, but it'd need different point values. (I keep having to rebuy new Mu games when the deck wears out so I've been contemplating other possibilities.)
Finally we have a deck that can support my new game Calvin Deck.
This looks complicated! The only card games I know are patience and Uno. Oh and top trumps, but not sure if that counts...
> The Everdeck is designed with a ruthless combinatorial efficiency. Beneath its minimalist pen-and-ink design lies layers of mathematical and linguistic patterns. This isn’t just a deck with haphazardly placed extra glyphs; rather, it aims to be both beautiful and practical.

This paragraph was designed as ruthless LLM slop.

Even if that was written with AI, it perfectly describes what the Eveedeck is. A sophisticated and meticulously crafted deck of cards.

But I agree that since LLMs it's hard to know what's truly exeptional vs AI slop.

I was informed that the article was written before LLMs, my apologies to the author.
I think my biggest complaint with this deck is that the Os and 0s look the same in the chosen font. They are in opposite corners on the card and one should always be colored and the other black, so shouldn't be easily confused in an oriented spread or in orienting the cards, so it is mostly just an aesthetic complaint.
Are there any good svg free deck designs out there? Like the traditional looking ones?
I’d love to see a variation on the concept that minimizes information on each card. It would of course result in a larger deck, but would reduce visual noise while playing games.

I think one colored suit symbol and one rank is the most needed. Some cards could have symbols like Uno’s “skip” card as their rank.

What is it about a good card game that is so appealing? I am not a fan of dice games at all, but give me some cards to hold, and I'm in.
Unfortunately I'm already heavily invested into the Deckmaster system.
The mystic bent limits the usability of the deck, since most people I play with, when playing games like Sheepshead try playing with more traditional decks. As well as traditional Tarot decks from Russia (OG tarot, not modern designs).

Vintage Tarot decks include more art/influence from the current ruling empire, not new-age mystic nonsense.

I actually own this, but I find that, in practice, remembering the mappings is tricky for most players. Also, it's surprisingly annoying to not have rotationally symmetric cards, or needing to hold the cards in a different way.
I would love to own this deck but I can tell I would be way too irritated when trying to actually use it. It's like an art piece dedicated to combinatorics.
In my multideck I mitigated this by using emojis as suits, so you can write notes on your phone. For the Everdeck you can use: ♣♠♥♦ coin, crown, moon, star (hacker news doesn't support emojis)
I own a few of these- they’re lovely things but I’ve not found them easy to bring out in a group. The same author’s made a variant that loses some features to gain looking like a very standard poker deck (with just more numbers and suits) that I really like the look of
I own this, works well, works great in fact for a lot of those basic "we made a game out of a normal deck of games" type games.
It is a great project that inspired me to make another multideck based on it. https://diymultideck.mauri.app/manual

Mine is compatible with more games, has a companion website that helps you prepare games, and (in my opinion) is easier to understand.

Some guys made this website with instructions of how to setup/play games: https://everdeck-library.vercel.app/

I feel like they did a great job but didn't get enough visibility. It hasn't been updated in a while and has a limited selection of games, but it's a great attempt to centralize game mappings. I hope comunity embraces this or similar tools, as the huge BGG lists aren't really built for this.

They describe their website as: The Everdeck Library was developed as an alternative archiving option for the various games playable by the Everdeck. Most of the Everdeck’s game lists are available on online forums such as BGG and Reddit. The Everdeck Library takes the format of those game lists and expands upon them by providing in-depth information and interactivity from being able to filter out certain games to knowing how the Everdeck maps to the game’s cards and rules. Sifting through the Everdeck’s 120 cards for the game you’re playing is quite involved and forgetting a card or not knowing what a card does can heavily hinder gameplay experience. Tabletop games are a way to gather people around and the last thing you want is fumbling around with rules and setup.