One-way deck

Playing card deck type

A one-way deck is a deck of playing cards where the back of the cards has a pattern that can be oriented to have a "top" and "bottom". Magicians and card sharps can use the orientations of cards in one-way decks to encode information that allows them to perform card tricks.^[1]^[2]

A certain number of the faces of playing cards are not symmetrical, and therefore can also be used as "pointer cards" (the seven of any suit, for instance, whose odd pip is off-center on most modern decks). When all aligned, these cards allow an otherwise ordinary deck (where the backs are all identical) to be used as a partial one-way deck.^[3]

References

^ Dennis Rourke (1 September 2005). The Everything Card Tricks Book: Over 100 Amazing Tricks to Impress Your Friends And Family!. Everything Books. p. 168. ISBN 1-4405-2345-2.
^ Jean Hugard (30 April 2012). Encyclopedia of Card Tricks. Courier Corporation. p. 160. ISBN 978-0-486-15652-1.
^ Wayne N. Kawamoto (1 January 2008). Picture Yourself as a Magician: Step-by-Step Instruction for the Street, Stage, Parties, Card Table and More. Cengage Learning. p. 95. ISBN 1-59863-677-4.

Playing cards

Standard
52-card deck

Playing card suits (French)	Spades Hearts Diamonds Clubs
Ranks	Ace Ace of spades Ace of hearts King Queen Queen of spades Jack Curse of Scotland Beer card
Specific decks	Ambraser Hofjagdspiel Archaeology awareness Charruan Flemish Hunting Deck Hamas most wanted Hofämterspiel Jerry's Nugget Most-wanted Iraqi Politicards Stuttgart pack Transformation

Other packs
and decks

As-Nas
Chinese
Four-colour pack
Ganjifa
- ganjapa
Karuta
- hanafuda
- Hyakunin Isshu
- kabufuda
- uta-garuta
Kvitlech
Polish
Portuguese-suited
Russian
Tarot pack
Tujeon
Zi pai

Cards

Banner
Blank
Court card
- knight
- Ober
- Unter
Pip card
- deuce
- Weli
Joker
Nicknames
Stripped deck
Talon
Unicode

Other suits

German	Leaves Hearts
Swiss	Shields Roses
German and Swiss	Acorns Bells
Latin (Italian/Spanish)	Cups Coins Batons Swords

Manufacturers
and brands

Manufacturers	ASS Altenburger Cartamundi Copag Dal Negro Fournier France Cartes F.X. Schmid Gemaco J.O. Öberg & Son Liberty Modiano Nintendo Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag Oishi Tengudo Piatnik Ravensburger Trefl U.S. Games Systems United States Playing Card Company
Brands	Bicycle Grimaud
Defunct	Aspioti-ELKA Bielefelder Spielkarten C.L. Wüst Charles Goodall Dondorf Lewis Cohen Waddingtons

Notable people

Groups and
organisations

Skat	British Skat Association German Skat Association International Skat Court International Skat Players Association

Card manipulation
and cardistry

Tricks	The Acme of Control Ambitious Card Blackstone's Card Trick Without Cards The Circus Card Trick The Four Burglars Out of This World Rising Card Spelling Bee Twenty-One Card Trick

Bottom dealing
Card marking
Card sharp
Card throwing
- Cards in the hat
Cardistry-Con
Cutting
Double lift
The Expert at the Card Table
Herrmann pass
History of cardistry
House of cards
One-way deck
Palms and grips
- gambler's
- magician's
- mechanic's
- Tenkai
The Phantom of the Card Table
Second dealing
Shuffling
- faro
- Gilbreath
- Zarrow
Si Stebbins stack
Spoke card
Three-card monte
Trick decks

Art and media

Paintings	The Acrobats The Bezique Game The Card Players The Card Players II Card Players in a Rich Interior The Card Sharp with the Ace of Diamonds Cardplayers in a Sunlit Room The Cardsharps Dogs Playing Poker Still Life with a Poem Violin and Playing Cards on a Table
Film and television	Card Sharks Playing Cards (1896) Play Your Cards Right

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