Best playing cards to play Poker, Snap, Bridge and more
Imagine a world without on-screen entertainment. Tricky, isn’t it?
Yet before black mirrors stole our leisure time, humans found plenty of inventive ways to keep boredom at bay. Cross stitching, nature painting, Mongolian throat singing - and that’s just off the top of our heads.
But, along with the inventions of booze, toothbrushes, kites and gunpowder (some of our favourite things incidentally, though inadvisable to enjoy all at once), we have Ancient China to thank for the gift of playing cards.
The Tang Dynasty invented the earliest prototype way back in AD1000, before evolving into the 52-card deck we know today. Refined through the centuries and shaped by Egyptian, and Italian hands along the way, playing card games is still an easy way to
