Curse of Scotland Gurney Benham's book about playing cards, in describing the game of Pope Joan he gives his own explanation for why this card is known as the Curse of Scotland: "The crown of Scotland contained only nine stones, as they never could afford a tenth". Eric Partridge's "Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang" considers: “the various theories are as interesting as they are unconvincing”. "Collins Encyclopedia of Scotland" says for "Curse of Scotland" "This is usually taken to be the nine of diamonds playing card, though explanations differ". The 19th century Tarot of Marseilles is one of the standard designs for tarot
United States Playing Card Company tiger that appeared on the joker. After the introduction of the "Steamboat" line, the importance of "Tigers" was diminished. It was discontinued around 1930. Nintendo was originally a playing card company in Kyoto. In 1958, Nintendo's then president Hiroshi Yamauchi visited the U.S. Playing Card Company's office and factory. He was shocked at the humble size of the office, despite USPCC being the top selling playing card company nationally in the U.S and also worldwide. Yamauchi understood Nintendo's limited potential if it continued to operate only in the playing card business, and so he famously began to diversify away from