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
A Gamut of Games Abbott expanded his game Crossings, published here, into the more-refined title Epaminondas. Many of the games covered in the book were creations of Sid Sackson himself, who was a prolific game designer. The sections of the book and the games covered therein are as follows: "All of the games in this section use a standard pack of cards." "All of the games in this section use a checkerboard." "All of the games in this section are meant to be played with pencil and paper." A second edition of the book was published in 1982; Dover Publications released an unabridged reprint,