Instructive and Educational Playing Cards & Games
Many packs are instructive or educational and designed to facilitate learning rather than just for play. Educational playing cards are a great way to learn new facts, or to review information that you already know. When the design of the illustrations is appropriate and amusing this helps to engage the imagination in the topic which can then be memorised more easily.
• See also: History of Educational and Instructive playing cards►
Quits
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by Simon Wintle
Jaques' Quits card game, c.1880-85, with portraits of monarchs inside suit symbols in red, blue and yellow, designed to assist in the education of school children in British history.
Radical playing cards
Radical playing cards, identifying radical characters from history, United Kingdom, 2021
Rainbow
Rainbow card game and colour mixing guide printed by Goodall & Sons for Robert Johnson, c.1920.
Red & White Wine playing cards
Red & White Wine playing cards published by Inkstone Design, USA, 2003.
Ripley’s Believe It or Not! playing cards
Strange facts from Robert Ripley’s ‘Believe It or Not’ books, in the form of cartoons.
Robert Morden’s Playing Cards
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by Simon Wintle
The 52 Counties of England and Wales described as a pack of cards first published in London in 1676.
Rois de France
Figures from French history restyled for a younger audience published by Quelle Histoire, 2015.
Roman Empire
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by Matt Probert
Roman Empire playing cards designed by G. Wyatt for Green Board Game Co Ltd.,
Sally Ferries playing cards
Sally Ferries Euro playing cards and phrase pack, United Kingdom, c.1990s.
Snapshots
Snapshots, a Missionary Card Game depicting people from different cultural contexts engaged in their traditional ways of life...
So Fängt Es An
“So Fängt Es An” beautifully illustrated by M. Neugebauer, published by Helingsche Verlagsanstalt.
Space Exploration
History of Transport ‘Space Exploration’ playing cards published by Heritage Playing Card Co., 2013.
Squadron Scramble
“Squadron Scramble” card games for identifying military planes, Whitman Publishing Co., Racine, Wisconsin, 1942.