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[PUZZLE] Playing Card Suits on Cards

[Atrophied]

#41 - Orange - Whipsmart Wordsearch - 9 Diamonds

[Flidget Jerome]

#179 Purple - By Another Name - 10 of Hearts
#059 Orange - Urban Myths - Queen of Spades

[spugmeistress]

[Flidget Jerome]

That seems to be where this is going, but damn is that one complex puzzle. Are all the silvers going to turn out to be this involved?

[Atrophied]

I serpintly hope so

turning out to be real brain bafflers those ones are

[Reason]

To say the Silvers are going to be tough to solve is an understatement Can't wait to see the other ones.

BTW, i'll keep the top of this thread updated as they come in...

[tanner]

looking at the cards so far -- where are the low ones -- the 3 and 5 and 7 etc that i always get dealt

[drendar]

[cassandra]

[Flidget Jerome]

That Solitaire, yes.

It's being worked on here here.

[nichtwahr]

I've just noticed something peculiar, although it may simply be a coincidence. Take a look at http://wiki.incognitus.net/ppc/index.php/Playing_card_symbols -- what is immediately noticeable is that all the playing-card, uh, cards are odd. What may not be readily visible is that every single one of them is a prime number. (243 itself isn't; it's 3*3*3*3*3.)
EDIT: I just checked to see how many prime numbers there were between 1 and 255. The answer: 54.

[tanner]

well spotted

so now we glimpse a pattern

[appleTRON]

Indeed, this is an interesting find!

So are we to assume that card #'s:

2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47 53 59 61 67 71 73 79 83 89 97 101 103 107 109 113 127 131 137 139 149 151 157 163 167 173 179 181 191 193 197 199 211 223 227 229 233 239 241 251

will all have a suit (or Joker) on them? Should we go back and scrutinize #13 (Sphinx) and #181 (Down, A, B, Up, Up, Right) as they seem to have no suit on them?

I wonder if the Reimann card has anything to do with this. Is there a simpler relationship between the first 54 prime numbers than for ALL primes?

I like this line of thinking except for the two prime numbered cards we have seen with no suits.

[EDIT: The Wiki says #181 is the 10 of Diamonds ... is this right?]

[GuyP]

If I remember correctly, those two cards were both special in the fact they were released unconventionally (333, E3, etc) so they may have been prototype versions without a symbol. If anyone has these cards from the actual packs, then have a check and let us know!