Huff contacted Customized Playing Cards, a family-run business in Florida, for printing. Huff couldn’t resist throwing a wild card of a man into the deck–the joker, naturally.

How about playing cards where the card is in reality a small block of plastic with embedded electronics and an E Ink display on top? Howsoever outrageous that might seem, it has been turned into ...

The first record of playing cards dates back to 9th-century China, which would place their invention around the same time as gunpowder and more than 500 years before the printing press. But their ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Mass-producing and printing playing cards had still not become the norm, so these cards were drawn free-hand with pen and ink with gold and silver later applied.

Bicycle playing cards, the most popular brand in the world, have been a quiet Cincinnati product, made by the U.S. Playing Card Co. since 1885.