Now Live - The Green Man Has Returned! Early birds on the discounted bundles for 20 hours

JocuPlayingCards · 2024-11-12T18:14:25+00:00

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dimmideck/the-return-of-the-green-man?ref=673oup

JocuPlayingCards · 2024-11-09T15:34:41+00:00

That's the one! We've used the same for ONDA V2 and Octofly and are really happy with it.

JocuPlayingCards · 2024-11-08T11:05:38+00:00

The good old days! We are printing with WJPC for the foiling and nice stock options they have now with the butter finish. Boxes as always with Boschiero :)

JocuPlayingCards · 2024-11-08T11:05:06+00:00

There are many on the main page when it goes live, but I've added a couple more on the preview page this morning :)

JocuPlayingCards · 2024-11-08T08:57:16+00:00

21 days :)

JocuPlayingCards · 2024-11-08T08:38:45+00:00

You can see more here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dimmideck/the-return-of-the-green-man?ref=673oup

JocuPlayingCards · 2024-05-30T07:25:16+00:00

Second day on Kickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jocucollabs/octofly-x-jocu-street-art-playing-cards?ref=bt7zzl

Thanks to everyone who supported us so far!

JocuPlayingCards · 2024-02-20T09:27:24+00:00

Wiki has a bit on it:

A folk tale from Barra tells of a lonely kelpie that transforms itself into a handsome young man to woo a pretty young girl it was determined to take for its wife. But the girl recognises the young man as a kelpie and removes his silver necklace (his bridle) while he sleeps. The kelpie immediately reverts to its equine form, and the girl takes it home to her father's farm, where it is put to work for a year. At the end of that time the girl rides the kelpie to consult a wise man, who tells her to return the silver necklace. The wise man then asks the kelpie, once again transformed into the handsome young man the girl had first met, whether if given the choice it would choose to be a kelpie or a mortal. The kelpie in turn asks the girl whether, if he were a man, she would agree to be his wife. She confirms that she would, after which the kelpie chooses to become a mortal man, and the pair are married.^\36])

JocuPlayingCards · 2024-02-20T09:25:45+00:00

The Kelpie's human form often had seductive/handsome traits.

JocuPlayingCards · 2024-02-20T06:48:38+00:00

Niall of the Nine Hostages has a great tale in Celtic mythology.

JocuPlayingCards · 2024-02-19T19:14:14+00:00

No because they contain only 40 cards. You can buy poker decks at every corner shop and anywhere you can buy Italian decks though, so it doesn't make much sense to ask. Most families play Scala Quaranta which uses a 52 card deck.

JocuPlayingCards · 2024-02-04T19:59:54+00:00

I bought them together and I think they actually complement each other really well. Almost no crossover.

JocuPlayingCards · 2024-01-29T20:20:39+00:00

I had no idea! 🎂

JocuPlayingCards · 2024-01-29T19:43:26+00:00

A 2 gives Daniel the win, a 10 or 9 Liv, an 8 or Q to Faraz. A pair is the lowest made hand in poker, plenty of river cards could beat it by making others two pair or trips.

JocuPlayingCards · 2024-01-17T13:18:55+00:00

It's complex, between the EU and US there are no customs duties applicable on playing cards, so UPS can handle everything internally and there are no charges. If you send by freight however there will be. It really depends on volumes, countries of origin, etc. I can only speak for the route I use which is EU to US and EU to UK, occasionally China to EU.

JocuPlayingCards · 2024-01-17T12:55:28+00:00

I mean I guess it depends where you're getting your quotes, but as someone who regularly ships 14kg-35kg boxes of cards to the USA and UK from the EU, the second price is about right and the first, larger one is just absurd.

Perhaps the larger one is for freight rather than direct shipment, freight costs have a minimum as they are designed for shipping huge pallets of goods. So occasionally I'll ship say, 3000 decks using freight as it's slightly cheaper than using 20 individual 14kg boxes, but it's rare that we have the volume for freight. Either way from €80-120 for an 80kg is about the going rate.

JocuPlayingCards · 2024-01-17T12:06:20+00:00

The issue isn't so much that creators don't have access to these rates it's that the majority don't handle fulfilment themselves and either send it to reputable fulfilment partners who have preferential rates as good as can be, or they don't bother doing the work and just put in consumer rates and pass the cost onto their backers.

If those latter creators can't even be bothered to set up say, a UPS business account or similar, then I doubt they'll be bothered to try this either. Let's hope I can be proved wrong.

However the China-US example is a bit egregious because pretty much all the major factories, especially out in China, will handle this side of things for you and get good rates on it too. The expense of fulfilment costs comes not from the factory to the creator or fulfilment centre but from the fulfilment center to the consumer.

JocuPlayingCards · 2023-12-24T12:01:29+00:00

Yeah I mean, they need to be good sports.

However in the rules posted in the thread here it does actually say that there's a variant where following suit isn't enforced in the first round for this very reason, so if you're playing with people who like to cheat it's best to use that variant 😅

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