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“The Fat Pack” is an enlargement of the traditional pack of playing cards.

Alternative playing cards are becoming an extremely popular gift for keen or occasional card players looking for unique playing cards. “The Fat Pack” is the ultimate set of 8-suited playing cards.

Also essential for playing Cripple Mr Onion* This quality multi-suited pack adds a new dimension to many games.

Need ideas for Birthdays or Christmas? Look no further! “The Fat Pack” Alternative playing cards are the perfect gift!

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About The Fat Pack

Now, in addition to the four age-old suits of Spades, Hearts, Diamonds and Clubs, there are four new, inferior suits, two black and two red, designated in descending rder of value: Roses, Axes, Tridents and Doves. “The Fat Pack” is truly a unique set of playing cards.

With eight suits now available, many well-known card games, adult and children’s alike, take on a whole new
dimension.

Whether it be Bridge or Whist, Patience, Pelmanism or Poker, card players of all ages around the world can continue to enjoy all their favourite card games with rekindled enthusiasm.

Fat Pack's History

It was not so much out of any recognition of there being a gap in the market, but more out of a one-off necessity, at the time, to involve a group of seven, enthusiastic and willing participants, on holiday abroad, in some form of entertainment utilising a solitary pack of playing cards.

The principal consideration for this enlarged pack of cards was that it should address the immediate problem of being able to involve at least seven players. Obviously, therefore, one or two additional suits were hardly going to meet this prime requirement. But to have had an odd number of suits would have seemed awkward and irrational so, for the sake of symmetry, it appeared that the only logical alternative was to settle for four additional suits.

Sir Terry Pratchett

As mentioned in Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels.

The Fat Pack is indebted to SirTerry Pratchett, the celebrated author, whose series of Discworld novels introduced his devoted readers to “Cripple Mr Onion”, a card game which requires the players to use an eight-suited pack of cards.

The interest generated by this new card game led, with Sir Terry Pratchett’s approval, to two members of the Guild of Fans and Disciples, Dr Andrew C. Millard and Prof. Terry Tao, formulating the definitive rules to “Cripple Mr Onion”.

Their only problem, up till now, was that the game could only be played by using two totally different types of playing cards (French/English suited and Spanish/Italian suited) with, obviously, two very different backings.

Cripple Mr Onion

the Fat Pack is indebted to SirTerry Pratchett, the celebrated author, whose series of Discworld novels introduced his devoted readers to “Cripple Mr Onion”, a card game which requires the players to use an eight-suited pack of cards. The interest generated by this new card game led, with Sir Terry Pratchett’s approval, to two members of the Guild of Fans and Disciples, Dr Andrew C. Millard and Prof. Terry Tao, formulating the definitive rules to “Cripple Mr Onion”.

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