Being a highly composite number a 60 card deck should allow for a greater variety of games than the standard 52-card deck.
For example, it can be evenly dealt between 2,3,4,5, or 6 players allowing for trick taking games with other than 4 players.
- 52 can be evenly dealt between 2,4,13,26
- 56 can be evenly dealt between 2,4,7,8,14,28
- 60 can be evenly dealt between 2,3,4,5,6,10,12,15,20,30
- 64 can be evenly dealt between 2,4,8,16,32
- 68 can be evenly dealt between 2,4,17,34
- 48 can be evenly dealt between 2,3,4,6,8,12,16,24
Just for reference in case a reminder is needed on how a 52-card deck of playing cards work.
- Clubs
- Diamonds
- Hearts
- Spades
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- Jack
- Queen
- King
- Ace (or 1)
- Red
- Diamonds
- Hearts
- Black
- Clubs
- Spades
Every card from the standard 52-card deck has an equivalent so you can easily filter down to a 52-card deck is needed. 2 more ranks are added to get to 60 cards 1s and Maids. The ten can also be abbreviated as the 0 in the corner, but with 10 icons.
- Clubs
- Diamonds
- Hearts
- Spades
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 0 (10)
- J ack (Knave, Footman or Squire)
- M aid (Paige, Gillian, Damsel, Colleen, Colette, Mounted Lady, Cavalier or Knight)
- Q ueen
- K ing
- A ce
- Red
- Black
- Low 1-5
- High 6-0
- Faces J-A
- Low 1-3
- Medium 4-6
- High 7-9
- Common 0-M
- Court Q-A
This is a split that highlights making the cards as divisible as possible. There are only 12 Ranks, so we merge the Jack and 10. The 5 suits are not divisible so the suits don't directly follow the colors.
- Clubs
- Diamonds
- Hearts
- Spades
- Moons (or Crescents)
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- J ack (or 10)
- Q ueen
- K ing
- A ce (or 1)
- Warm
- Red (or Magenta)
- Yellow
- Cool
- Green
- Blue (or Cyan)
Clubs | Diamonds | Hearts | Spades | Moons | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Red | J47 | Q38 | K29 | A56 | A56 |
Yellow | Q38 | K29 | A56 | J47 | K29 |
Green | K29 | A56 | J47 | Q38 | Q38 |
Blue | A56 | J47 | Q38 | K29 | J47 |
- Low 2-5
- High 6-9
- Faces J-A
The ranks of the cards could be reduced down to just the 10 digits. This then allows for there to be 6 suits, which is also a highly composite number So it can be split into 2 different sub-groupings (of 2 or 3) maybe by color and general shape?
- Red
- Diamonds
- Hearts
- Pentacles (or Stars)
- Black
- Clubs
- Spades
- Moons (or Crescents)
- Rounded
- Clubs
- Hearts
- Sharp
- Spades
- Diamonds
- Astral
- Pentacles
- Moons
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 0 (10)
There are 4 prime factors in 60(223*5) so each could be it's own suit dimension.
- Warm
- Red
- White (Yellow)
- Cool
- Green
- Black (Blue)
- Worker
- Noble
- Royal
- Clubs
- Diamonds
- Hearts
- Spades
- Moons (or Crescents)
By number
- Rounded
- Clubs
- Hearts
- Sharp
- Diamonds
- Spades
- 1 Clubs
- 2 Diamonds
- 3 Hearts
- 4 Spades
- 5 Moons (or Crescents)
- 6 Moons (or Crescents)
- 7 Spades
- 8 Hearts
- 9 Diamonds
- 0 Clubs (10)
Check [rules.md|here]