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You will probably already know that Tim loves unusual playing cards, and he has collected many strange decks of cards over the years!

First, a deck that initially looks normal but wait... all the cards are threaded together.

Then Tim's automatic dealing box - load the deck into this battery operated box, press the button, and the cards shoot out from the front.

The 'Wild West Deck' from Texas is packed into a lovely leather case. Open the case and examine the deck; well, it looks as if this card game ended in a shoot out - all the cards have bullet holes in them!

A Japanese deck, which uses a technique called contra-vision. The backs of the cards are blank, and you can see through the cards to some extent. However turn the cards over, and you can see exactly which card they are.

A deck of cards where each card is shaped a little like a teardrop, with one end larger than the other. The artwork is correspondingly unusual, so the court cards fro example will have a large picture of - say - the Jack of Clubs at one end of the card, and a smaller picture of the jack of Clubs at the other end of the card.

A deck where each card has artwork that has been commissioned from a different artist. Some of the cards are easy to read - you can see the suit and the value of the card without too much trouble - and some take quite a bit of work to see which card they are.

A deck for coding experts, where the value of each card is shown in binary form!

Finally, a neat little card trick that Tim loves to show people!