The Most Overlooked Fact About casino games Revealed

1
The Most Overlooked Fact About casino games
Revealed

• Together with this rich heritage these decks of
  cards created for education purposes. In 1662 the
  German publisher Johann Hoffmann published a book
  "Reproduced antique art cards with 36 figures
  created by Johann Pretorio". The Bavarian
  National Museum in Munich stores the cards issued
  by Johann Schtridbeck in 1685 and they can be
  related to the series "Worthy Men".

2
These cards present outstanding men of the
Ancient Rome and Greece. Other cards have
pictures of the Roman emperors starting from
Caesar. In 1936 issued a pack of cards called
"History" in honor of crowning of the English
King Edward VIII. The cards were hand-painted and
with English text on them. The cards depict 53
rulers of England. A very beautiful pack is
stored in Victoria and Albert Museum the picture
on the sleeve is a scene in front of the Coliseum
with the Latin inscription - "Testis Temporum".
Each of the four suits is devoted to one of the
monarchies coins refer to Assyrians, cups
correspond to Persians, swords to Greeks, warders
to Romans. Events of the Bible history
were also reflected in decks of the playing
cards. The Church did not approve cards and the
artists who chose Bible scene as subjects of
their works, found an interesting
3
interpretation of symbols of card suits. For
example, on German cards called "spiritual deck",
the jack of leaves (many eastern and southern
Germans prefer decks with hearts, bells, leaves,
and acorns (for hearts, diamonds, spades, and
clubs) is presented as Jonah under a green tree
and the ace of acorns symbolizes the prodigal son
who fell as low as that he had to eat acorns
together with pigs. Cards with
religious pictures were probably intended to
entertain the clergy who as a rule were forbidden
to play cards. One pack of this type is known and
it was produced in Germany in XVI century. It
depicts monks and nuns, cardinals and lower
clergy. The queen in these cards is presented as
abbess. (probably the influence of Tarot). The
Geographical decks of cards.
4
The British museum has a pack of cards with
counties dated back to 1590. We have already
mentioned the pack "Geography" used for teaching
Louis XIV. Probably the childhood impressions of
Louis XIV were so strong that in 1701 he issued a
law on uniform canon of gaming cards for each of
nine provinces of France (this way making all the
French cards somewhat geographical). In 1678
Nurnberg publishing house published a book called
"European geographical card game". Fifty-two
pages of the book demonstrate all exiting
kingdoms and countries with the main cities in
Europe. Besides the description of the
countries, cities and the most interesting sites,
it also tells about the most significant events
in these places. The Frankfurt Museum of the
Applied Art has a deck of another type of cards
each card has a picture of a representative of a
particular population group. In general context
any game is educational as in the course of the
game the person performs cognitive activity.
Virtually every game either commercial or
gambling incarnates the basis of many sciences
the theory of probability, mathematical logic,
and of course, arithmetic and elementary logic.
You cannot play the bridge, poker or
chuck-farthing without the latter. Besides the
game indirectly teaches you the basics of law and
ethics and helps to develop your memory,
attention and intelligence. Best casino games to
play click here