Playing Card history and trivia
We play BAM! with them but professional card stacker Bryan Berg makes building structures with them. Harvard-educated architect Bryan Berg was taught by his grandfather and began card stacking at the age of eight. He has since become a multiple record breaker in the field.
Waipukurau is the largest town in the Central Hawke’s Bay District on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It’s my home town. In a notice in a 1878 issue of the Māori-language newspaper ‘Te Wānanga’ – passengers were warned against playing cards on the Napier–Waipukurau line, reminding them that it was […]
DID YOU KNOW Batman’s greatest nemesis ‘The Joker’ is said to be based on actor Conrad Veidt’s character ‘Gwynplaine’ from the 1928 Leni-directed “The Man Who Laughs.”
DID YOU KNOW The Joker playing card was also known as the ‘Jolly Joker.‘ Standard decks normally contained two extra ‘wild’ cards, each depicting a traditional court jester that could be used to trump any natural card.
BAM! has 10 Levels for you to crush IF you can! Each level is different from the last. Each has a more challenging opponent and a different number of cards.
