Abstract: This invention relates to an improved version of my previously patented card game (U.S. Pat. No. 4,234,189) wherein the deck of fifty-two cards is divided as before into four suits of thirteen cards each; however, I now display on each card of each suit a single trump-determining category or genus effective to distinguish each such suit from the other three. In addition, while I retain the alphabetical indicia common to all four suits that is used to distinguish each card in a suit from the other twelve, I now display on each card specific identifying indicia which uniquely distinguishes each card from all other cards in the deck while, at the same time, falling within the particular trump-determining category of the suit within which the card is located. The latter indicia determines the so-called trump word within the trump suit and it can comprise either a word or words or a picture or a word or group of words and matching picture.

Abstract: There is disclosed herein a deck of educational playing cards consisting of fifty-two cards divided into four suits, each suit being representative of two different forms of speech and being so marked. Each card in each suit is representative of two different letters of the alphabet, and is so marked, the thirteen cards in each suit being representative of the twenty-six letters of the alphabet.