Blank Playing Cards Cards – 1 Feb. 2010

These cards are quite tough, and when you write on them with sharpie, it doesn't come off or smudge. The box contains a huge number and I used them in the classroom - you can play card games with them OK, but they do stick together sometimes.

great for educational use, using them for terminology memorization

Exactly what I was after - Good sturdy box and the cards are of decent quality. Wrote all over them with various colours using some fineliners from Staedtler. After a minute or so to dry they don't smudge.

Nice cards in a tough corrugated cardboard box. There are about 500. It would be quite nice if they told us how many before we brought them. Coated card so you need to use a permanent marker on them. They shuffle well and are consistently-shaped. All in all they feel like regular playing cards.. but they are, of course, blank so you can decorate them with whatever you fancy.

Bought these for a fun game and have used them for so many different projects since. World recommend them as perfect price and quality.

Ideal fir revision cards but half way through the box and only just in to october 🤔

Used for planning poker cards and user stories. Nice cards which stood up to days in workshops.

Really useful to personalise learning

Más pequeño que cartas póquer, pero no por mucho. Acepta bien marcadores sharpies o tinta de alcohol. Excelente relación calidad precio por la gran cantidad de cartas.

If you're looking for something to make cards for any kind of game, these are perfect. 500 in the box perfectly sized, they're firm and take markers really well.

Som vanliga spelkort. Jag använder dem till epp quilt.

Carte veramente ottime! Già solo per il prezzo ne valgono la pena. Inoltre sono scrivibili a penna e matita senza problemi

Some of the other reviews of this product seem, intentionally or unintentionally, to cast doubt as to whether one could or would get fewer than 500 cards that are promised in a pack, even when the reviewers (and paying customers) themselves could not be bothered to count and verify (i) the strict accuracy of the supplier's claim, and (ii) whether they received their minimum entitlement of 500 cards.I counted what I received, several times over, to make sure my number is accurate. There were 525 cards in the box I got (see attached photo), which is a whole 5% more than what I was promised and could reasonably expect to get.The cards measure 56.75×87.8 mm, according to my electronic callipers (±0.05mm). Each stack of fifty cards measured 14.55 mm. They are relatively stiffer than the Imagame playing cards (with one glossy side and one matt side) I also ordered on Amazon and received last week, and I don't think really lend themselves to riffle shuffling; out-of-the-box, I found it difficult to bend a stack of 25 cards in a shallow arc. Alas, my intended purpose for the cards will not require, or incomparably benefit from, riffle shuffling; but being stiff and resilient, are thus more likely to stay completely flat, is an advantage.The matt finish on both sides of the cards makes them slightly more difficult, than say Bicycle playing cards, with which to perform an overhand shuffle. There are practically no discernible differences in either the texture or the finish of the opposite sides of each card. In my testing of which types of writing instruments would work on it without an unacceptable degree of smudging when the cards are subsequently handled, there were some very minor differences, but none that could not possibly have been due to moisture or skin oils getting transferred onto the card surface from my fingers, in my handling of the test cards before writing on them in my not so strictly controlled experimentation.Artline Drawing System and Staedler 308 pigment ink fineliner pens — in black, which are the only ones I have here — resisted rubbing with a dry cotton-tipped swab, rubbing with a damp cotton-tipped swab, and even strokes with a water brush perfectly, for anything that calls for more detailed work and crisp lines than what a Sharpie can be used to produce. Sakura Pigma Micron fineliners in black worked very well on (both sides of) one test card, but curiously smudged on another, even though the marks on both cards were allowed to fully dry with ‘encouragement’ from a hot air gun. Other colours of Pigma Micron resisted rubbing acceptably well, but nevertheless exhibited minor smudging in response to damp rubbing, to various degrees depending on colour.Zebra Sarasa gel rollerball pens can also be used to put down fine lines, if one prefers to use a writing instrument with a hard tip (wielded with a light hand all the same, so as not to indent the card surface). In spite of heat treatment, which improves the resistance, the ink marks are nevertheless more apt to smudge, compared to those made by Sakura Pigma Micron fineliners in similar colours, although never so badly that the written or drawn content would be corrupted or lost through being rubbed off.I've successfully used fountain pens to write on the cards, on which the finish is not so hydrophobic that it could cause the ink to bead up on the card surface, or prevent capillary action from depositing ink on it in the first place. Surprisingly, out of the handful of inks I've used in testing, Noodler's Ink North African Violet performed almost perfectly in what I threw at the ink marks to try to ruin them, better even than Noodler's Ink #41 Brown; whereas Noodler's Ink Heart of Darkness smudged when dry-rubbed, and allowed maybe a third of its intensity to be washed away with a water brush. Iron-gall inks such as Hero 232 blue-black and Platinum Classic Ink Forest Black resisted dry-rubbing very well, but some colour will wash off, leaving perfectly legible grey marks. (The colour that gets into the moisture is unlikely to permanently stain the white areas surrounding the ink marks, but it's probably best to dab the marks with a paper towel or some such to soak up and remove the washed off colour. Besides, the finish is not so water-resistant that the card would not soak through, and as a result permanently deform even after drying, if the moisture is allowed to stay on the card surface for long enough.) Platinum blue pigment ink is quite apt to smudge when dry-rubbed, although application of water does not do anything to its marks. Some dyestuff inks, such as Pilot Iroshizuku Kiri-same, work surprisingly well; and it takes 45 seconds or longer for colour to start to bleed into water sitting atop the card surface, so a quick dab with a dry cloth or paper towel is enough to avert problems should its marks get wet inadvertently.