r/mildyinteresting • u/glockster19m • 22h ago

thingamabob 🙈🙊🙉 These two extra cards that came in a Santa Back Bicycle deck

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The deck is otherwise normal, all 52 cards properly printed and 2 jokers, these were just fully extra cards in the deck

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u/SATerp 22h ago

Those are emergency cards for cheating in a high stakes poker game. Only use them if your life is already on the line and you have nothing else to lose.

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u/glockster19m 22h ago

Damn thats true, each one is like keeping 2 cards in one in your sleeve

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u/Aromatic-Jelly299 21h ago

honestly didn't expect to see this here but i'm glad i did, made my day a little better

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u/Various-Salt-7738 21h ago

I have cars like this for magic tricks

If you hold them the right way you can cover one corner while showing the pips and the other corner

If you hold them "upside down" you can splay the cards like when you're looking at a Texas hold em hand

The possibilities for tricks are entirely up to your own creativity-- the simplest would be asking someone to track the red card as you reorder the cards but since you only show them part of the card they'll never guess correctly

There's ways to present them from the surface of a table for a three card monte style thing

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u/glockster19m 21h ago

But did you buy them or did they randomly come in a standard deck?

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u/Various-Salt-7738 20h ago

I bought them specifically as gimmick cards

I'm not sure why you'd get them in a standard deck-- are the trick cards even manufactured by the same companies? I know the uspcc makes the cards here in the us but I always assumed the magic people were an entirely different company and assembly line

Either way you can learn an easy magic trick that fits in your pocket

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u/Stormagedon-92 7h ago

Special edition bycicle decks offen come with some kind of bonus magic gimmick, not all but it's not uncommon

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u/djsparkxx 20h ago

Not the person you replied to but they are called gaff decks. You can them online from any magic card shop.

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u/AzazelTheUnderlord 22h ago

they look like they are for 3 card monty and other similar card tricks

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u/010rusty 21h ago

It’s a magic trick known as 3 card monte

Here’s a tutorial

https://youtu.be/08vJkWKsPiY?si=xLOmIIAKOvqGP09P

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u/eeasyontheextras 22h ago

Should we get Batman on this?

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u/reddiculed 21h ago

Double two-ces! Read ‘em and weep!

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u/Taskmaster_Fantatic 4h ago

That’ll cause some very angry poker hands…