Paris 2024 Olympics 2

Published July 17, 2024 Updated July 21, 2024

A standard French Tarot game pack with passing references to the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games.

2024 Europe France La Ducale Olympics Tarot Tarock

Despite the finely coloured courts and trumps, this is essentially a standard ‘Jeu de Tarot’. There are passing references to the Paris 2024 Olympics on the Ace of Spades and on the one-colour backs. Where the manufacturer’s initials or logo often appear on the trump cards are some lines probably meant to resemble part of an athletics track together with “PARIS 2024” in minuscule lettering. At least the numbering on the trumps looks modern. The cards are wrapped in paper instead of plastic to be environmentally friendly but unfortunately the finishing on the corners is poor and the cards feel flimsy. See the box

Surely an opportunity was missed here to do something really special, say with non-standard courts and trumps depicting different sports or sportsmen/sportswomen? Perhaps, however, the cost of using the official logo for this licensed product prohibited further innovation and expenditure, as with the 54-card pack reviewed elsewhere.

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Above: Paris 2024 Olympics Tarot published by Cartamundi under the “Ducale” label, 2024. Made in Europe. 78 cards + 2 extra cards in tuck box. Size: 60 x 113 mm. © PARIS 2024

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Roddy started collecting stamps on his 8th birthday. In 1977 he joined the newly formed playing-card department at Stanley Gibbons in London before setting up his own business in Edinburgh four years later. His collecting interests include playing cards, postcards, stamps (especially playing cards on stamps) and sugar wrappers. He is a Past President of the Scottish Philatelic Society, a former Chairman of the IPCS, a Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards and Curator of the WCMPC’s collection of playing cards. He lives near Toulouse in France.

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