Specialty playing cards · since 2017

Familiar cards.
Brand-new games.

Hand-illustrated decks by Jeff Daymont, each one a fresh way to play. Five-suit Rock-Paper-Scissors, a 4×4×4 kingdom deck, a deck split between light and dark, and more.

Printed in America Premium card stock Free shipping over $150

The Janken Deck fanned out, showing illustrated face cards and the orange-backed pack 70 cards · 5 suits
Designed by artist Jeff Daymont Over 70 games and counting Bold pips, easy to read Also sold in game stores

The decks

Six decks. Six new ways to play.

Every deck changes the structure of the cards to unlock a whole family of games — and every one is built around original, hand-drawn art.

Flagship The Janken Deck pack and fanned face cards

Janken Deck

$20

Rock, Paper, Scissors, Water & Lizard.

Rock-Paper-Scissors rules meet a classic card format. Five suits, Ace through King, with a Joker in every suit — and no single suit is strongest.

70 cards · 5 suits

The King's Keys Deck, red-backed medieval-themed cards

King's Keys

$20

A 4×4×4 deck of four kingdoms.

Four colors, four items, four numbers — Keys, Axes, Shields and Coins across the Sun, Mountain, Forest and Ocean kingdoms. Every card is one of a kind.

64 cards · medieval theme

The Dark Hand Deck, light and dark cards on a red background

Dark Hand

$20

A deck split between two realities.

Two 52-card decks — one light, one dark — merged into one. Play your light hand, flip to your dark hand, or switch mid-game.

two decks in one

The Gospel Deck, parchment-style cards inspired by the Book of Kells

Gospel Deck

$20

Art inspired by the Book of Kells.

A standard 52-card deck with the look of centuries-old parchment. The face cards honor the twelve disciples, with Celtic knotwork throughout.

printed by US Playing Card Co.

New The French Detective Deck, 16th-century Rouen card designs

French Detective

$18

Solve a string of art thefts in Paris.

A standard 52-card deck with 16th-century designs from Rouen, France. Play the deductive game French Detectives — or any card game you like.

deduction game · old-style deck

The Old English Puzzle Deck, art inspired by 1750s London cards

Old English Puzzle

$18

A logic puzzle hidden in a deck.

Kings and queens are playing poker — can you work out who was dealt the best hand? Art inspired by a deck printed in London, circa 1750.

logic puzzle · collectible art

The art

Every face card is real.

The faces aren't generic kings and queens. They're real rulers and legends from every corner of the world — researched, hand-illustrated, and printed bold enough to read at a glance.

  • Xerxes of Persia
  • Mansa Musa of Mali
  • Nefertiti of Egypt
  • Moctezuma II
  • Kamehameha of Hawai‘i
  • Qin Shi Huang of China
  • Empress Myeongseong
  • Sun Wukong
A hand-illustrated Janken Deck queen face card A hand-illustrated Janken Deck jack face card A hand-illustrated Janken Deck joker card
A wheel diagram showing how Rock, Paper, Scissors, Water and Lizard each beat and lose to one another

How it works

No suit is strongest.

Each suit beats some and loses to others, so the balance never tips. It looks like a normal deck — it just uses a different math. Bold, distinct pips keep it easy to read, even if you're color blind or reaching for your glasses.

  • Rock
  • Paper
  • Scissors
  • Water
  • Lizard

Save with a bundle

Combo decks

Some games play best with two decks. Bundle them and save.

Janken + King's Keys$35
Janken + Dark Hand$35
Dark Hand + King's Keys$35
Detective + Puzzle$30
Three-Deck Combo ★$50
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On the go

Play free on your phone.

Storm Turtle Games turned two favorite solitaire games into mobile apps — Janken Deck and King's Keys. Both are free to download and play, with new scoring systems to compare your games. Upgrade to Pro for extra challenges, leaderboards, and no ads.

The King's Keys deck, also available as a free mobile solitaire app

About the maker

I'm Jeff — and I make cards that play differently.

"Each of my decks explores a new generation of card games by changing the structure of the deck. The Janken Deck swaps the suits for Rock, Paper, Scissors, Water and Lizard. King's Keys is a 4×4×4 deck with medieval themes. Dark Hand merges two 52-card decks, one light and one dark, into one. They're poker sized, printed in America on high-quality stock, and designed to be bold and easy to read for everyone."

— Jeff Daymont

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Single decks from $18. Free shipping on orders over $150.

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