Quoting John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Eric Muller scripsit: > > > >A suggestion for playaing cards: why not including the "Tarots"? > > >I mean in French the 4 "Cavaliers" figures, the 18 "Atouts", and the > > >"Excuse" > > >(which is not exactly a Joker); sorry I don't have their English names. > > > > > Make that 21 atouts (labeled "1" through "21"), for a total of 78 cards. > > The "cavalier" is between the jack and the queen. Very popular game in > > high school and college in my days. > > "Trumps" in English. I suggest that 21 trumps be encoded, but not > named, because the correspondence of names to numbers is variable.
Are they very variable? I can only think of the one substitution suggested by Crowley. Are there others, outside of toy decks? Plain text is going to end up a lot less plain... -- Jon Hanna <http://www.hackcraft.net/> "�it has been truly said that hackers have even more words for equipment failures than Yiddish has for obnoxious people." - jargon.txt
