Fivedeck

The Fivedeck is a curious little deck of cards. It's made up of 55 cards spanning 5 suits. Each suit has 6 cards in it: numbers 1-5, letters J-N, and a special O card which acts as both a zero and the letter o.

The fivedeck is designed for games where you want two particular features to hold true:

1. You want the card ranks to be disjoint, meaning they aren't continuous.
2. You want the parts of the deck to be able to move around, similar to how the Ace is sometimes high and sometimes low in card games.

The Fivedeck is designed for games where sometimes the Letters are high and sometimes the numbers are.

Each of the cards feature a set of point pips from 0-5 points. On the number cards, the points run up 0 points for the O, 1 point for the 1, all the way up to 5 points for the 5. On the letter cards, the points run down from 5 points for the J card, 4 points for the K card, all the way down to 0 points for the O card.

Why JKLMN instead of ABCDE? Because I wanted to have the O card span the gap. O looks like the letter o and it also looks like a zero, so by shifting the alphabet I can allow for both JKLMNO and 012345.

List of games compatible with this deck so far:

• Spandauer