Suit (cards) (distinct from 1) and a Joker. A commercially available five-suit poker (65-card) deck is Stardeck which introduces "stars" as a fifth suit. In the Stardeck cards, the fifth suit is colored a mixture of black and red. This fifth suit can be counted as either a Red or a Black suit dependent upon the game being played. There are also 2 "special" cards (or Jokers), 1 each of red and black and shown with that colour star in the corner, but no numeral or letter. "Estate Playing Cards" designed in 2006, is a contemporary five-suit (62-card) deck which adds a
Zener cards the experimenter picks up a card in a shuffled pack, observes the symbol, and records the answer of the person being tested, who would guess which of the five designs is on the card. The experimenter continues until all the cards in the pack are tested. Poor shuffling methods can make the order of cards in the deck easier to predict and the cards could have been inadvertently or intentionally marked and manipulated. In his experiments, J. B. Rhine first shuffled the cards by hand but later decided to use a machine for shuffling. In his book, "The New Apocrypha",