Kills Time by Playing Cards

During the ’60s, gadgets weren’t as advanced as today, so many groups of friends would resort to traditional ways to kill time. These ladies, for instance, decided to play cards to beat boredom, but where did cards really come from? The origin of the deck of playing cards remains shrouded in mystery as many countries claimed to have invented it.

Some say that it originated in China after ancient scrolls that mentioned paper tiles were discovered. European materials, however, argued that cards came from Arabia because of the emergence of the Saracen’s game. Then there’s a theory that the first deck came from India.