Two-color back design (red/green, blue/brown) Reissued under 'Heritage Design Series' c. Numbered back designs Bicycle playing card back designs No. Other types of cards with varying backs, sizes, colors and custom designs are produced for magic tricks and as novelty and collectors' items. They are available with standard indexes in poker size (3.5 by 2.5 inches (8.9 cm × 6.4 cm)), bridge size (3.5 by 2.25 inches (8.9 cm × 5.7 cm)), and pinochle decks, 'Jumbo Index' poker decks and Lo Vision cards that are designed for the visually impaired. Current decks contain two information/instruction cards as well.īicycle playing cards are sold in a variety of designs, the most popular being the Rider Back design. The Bicycle trademark is printed on the ace of spades. The following is a list of Bicycle playing cards and associated products that are available for purchase.Bicycle cards follow the pattern of the French deck, containing 52 cards (13 in each of two red and two black suits), and include two jokers. The playing card faces feature significant events, inventions and people from history, and the back design is taken from an early design. The design of the cards and of the tin itself are quite nice. In celebration of the Millennium, the United States Playing Card Company issued Bicycle 2000, a limited edition of two decks of playing cards in a tin. His bicycle is a relatively non-modern affair, and no doubt will remain so. The well-known Bicycle Joker depicts a King (which King, you might ask, but of course, on the Joker, this King belongs to no particular suit) riding a bicycle. Of course, bicycles don’t always have to show up on the backs of playing cards. This is called the Bicycle Fan Back TM Design. What’s the big deal about that? Well, if you do magic tricks with cards, it can be a very big deal indeed!Ĭontinuing our transition from card back designs to box designs, here’s a design on a box of Bicycle playing cards I truly love! It’s from a two-deck set of Canasta playing cards, and the modern bicycle on an old-fashioned fan is a subtle way of coordinating the bicycle theme with a card game that has a South American heritage. It’s this winged wheel that keeps the design from being technically considered double-ended, in that the image is not exactly the same when looked at either upside-down or right-side-up. (Actually, this scan is from the box, hence the break in the design at top.) This design is notable both for the very nice bicycle – check out those fat tires! – and for the winged wheel design in the center. Mountain Bike TM is the latest design in the Bicycle tradition.”Īnother up-to-date bicycle design is this one, found on the back of a deck of Bicycle playing cards designed for six-handed Five Hundred. (If you’re wondering what a Counter Card is, you need to learn to play Euchre!) As is stated on the package, “For over a century Bicycle has created new card back designs reflecting the changes in bicycles. Shown here is a more modern version of a bicycle design from a two-deck set of Bicycle Euchre playing cards.

Both decks are manufactured in either blue or red. The design is the same on Bicycle Rider Back 88F Jumbo Index Standard Playing Cards. This image is taken from a deck of Bicycle Rider Back 48F Pinochle Braille Playing Cards. Shown here is the traditional “rider back” from a deck of Bicycle playing cards, a double-ended design showing a cherub riding a bicycle. They are currently manufactured by the United States Playing Card Company. Bicycle Playing Cards are one of the oldest – they’ve been around since 1885 – and most recognizable brands of playing cards sold in the United States.

Bicycle pinochle playing cards