Playing Cards
By Amber
@AmbiePam (98162)
United States
May 9, 2025 1:02pm CST
The picture is from a stack of playing cards that are portraits by famous painter, Vincent Van Gogh. I like how inventive it is to put such beautiful things on playing cards. An unnecessary indulgence (no, I didn’t pay for them), but cool, nonetheless.
I have read several times in prison they hand out playing cards with unsolved crime information to trigger an inmate’s memory in case they have info and want to cut a deal. This has, in fact, resulted in a few arrests.
What would you put on a pack of playing cards? Would a nutritionist put health suggestions on the cards? Would a teacher put the most common grammatical errors and how to correct them? Or, would I put Golden Girls characters and sayings on the cards?
Use your imagination on an entirely unnecessary question…
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13 responses
@DaddyEvil (148019)
• United States
9 May
I wonder if those were true memories they're triggering in the inmates or false ones they're planting? (You should look that up online. It's very interesting.)
How often do you look at the back of a playing card and actually pay attention to the picture or whatever is printed there? I might look at the back of the cards if I'm playing solitaire by myself but don't notice the back if I'm playing cards with someone.
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@DaddyEvil (148019)
• United States
9 May
@AmbiePam I've always played solitaire and, when Pretty was pre-teen, she'd play card games with me. For a while we had roommates who would play card games with me... Now, I'm back to playing solitaire again.
I have shoeboxes full of decks of playing cards. Some from other countries but most from here in the US that I've picked up when we were on vacation or that I found in different places. Some of them are worth quite a bit of money. I've got boxes of collector's editions... I need to separate those from the others and mark the boxes they're in so she can sell them someday.
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@AmbiePam (98162)
• United States
9 May
@DaddyEvil I like that kind of collection!
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@snowy22315 (189361)
• United States
9 May
Beautiful water, animal and sunset scenes
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@MarieCoyle (43765)
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9 May
Hmm...maybe something positive, or something just cheerful. Or possibly some sort of trivia, that would make a person want to know the answer, thus making a pack of cards good for two games--the one they were purchased for, and another in thinking up the answers to the trivia questions.
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@GardenGerty (163435)
• United States
10 May
I like the Van Gogh cards, wish I had thought of it. I love the Starry NIght painting. For me, perhaps I would put various images of beautiful flowers.
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@allknowing (145582)
• India
10 May
Wonder if the prisoner is asked to do it or they do it on their own
Talking about what is printed on the cards I may just appreicate them but nothing beyond
Not particular what I would choose
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@crossbones27 (50570)
• Mojave, California
10 May
Good way to teach youngsters about famous people. Pretty cool. How do you win?. My dude is more famous, I win. 
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@LeaPea2417 (37838)
• Toccoa, Georgia
10 May
I would put different plants and flowers on mine.
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@RasmaSandra (84913)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
9 May
I would probably put different foods on playing cards.
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@LindaOHio (188594)
• United States
10 May
I think cards with the artwork on them would be cool. Starry Night and some of Monet's paintings would be lovely.
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