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Tim loves playing cards and he also loves optical illusions. So how about combining the two - a set of playing cards that have optical illusions on them!

The first example has a different optical illusion in each card. They can also be used as regular playing cards, assuming you are not too distracted by the illusions!

Tim goes to a lot of trade fairs, and sometimes a stand will hand out single cards.

Tiny playing cards. I suppose these would suit children. Certainly as an adult they are quite tricky to handle, due to their small size.

Then Tim shows a deck of cards that is mostly normal, but the court cards (Jack, Queen and King) feature some rather famous cartoon characters!

A very unusual deck of cards, which feature famous composers and each card has a short, well known phrase of music by that composer. These cards do not have the normal four suits, so clearly you would play a different kind of game with these.

Finally, a mystery deck - at least to Tim. Called SKAT, this deck comes from Germany. The two, three, four five and six of each suit are missing. Obviously the game of SKAT does not need these.

For those who are curious, here is a link which gives a lot more information about this game, which is very popular in Germany - https://www.detailedpedia.com/wiki-Sk...)