Today, the most amazing thing happened. I’d just opened a brand new deck of cards, shuffled them a dozen or so times, and started to practice a trick.
And I knew for a fact that the bottom card of the deck was a 6 of Spades. But when I dealt the top card of the deck face up….it was a 6 of Spades. I was buffaloed… no clue what had happened.
Imagine my confusion when I spread out the deck and saw a deck of all diamonds and Spades…with just a sprinkling of Clubs.
In all of my years….and all of the 1000’s of decks I’ve gone through, I’ve never had a misboxed deck. I’ve had decks with rough cut marks, I’ve had decks with severe warpage….but NEVER a misbox.
As you can see in the picture above, I have 2 of every Diamond, except the Jack, Queen and King.
I have 2 of every Spade, and I have standalone 10,J,Q,K of Clubs.
And I realize I could send the Ace of Spades back to Bicycle and they’d send me a new deck…..but I’d rather keep this deck as a reminder of what it feels like to be fooled.
