hist-games: card games--Naib/ganjifa

[SEDWilkins at aol.com]

While I'm asking impossible questions, does anyone know of any directions, 
period or contemporary, for card games using ganjifa? I seem to be only 
finding them as art objects. 

And would it be reasonable, do you suppose, to posit a pre-Hombre simple 
trick-taking game played with the 52-card deck described by John of 
Rheinfelden? It seems very odd that the cards were introduced with 52 cards 
and the oldest games we know of are played with 40 and 48 card decks. But 
many of you are more learned in this than I, and I haven't read this 
suggestion anywhere. . .or have I missed it?

Sally W

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