A Strange Discovery...

The other night I was fooling around with one of my old ruined deck of cards. And I mean RUINED. The deck was bent, sticky, chunky, and had smudges of god knows what all over it.

Well, I was just meesing around with them and my mom asked me to set the table so I placed them in an open window. I forgot about them completely until 2 hours later when my dad brought them to me. I went to throw them away. I decided to do one last circle fan.

Usually this pretty crappy deck would have left gaps and been totally uneven after the fan but surprisingly they spread like new. I started doing all of the spreads like ribbon spreads, and one handed fans only to find that this deck was like a new deck.

I ran an expiriment to see if what I thought had happened was true or if I was just over reacting. I grabbed a new deck. Ate some greasy pizza and started using the deck without washiing my hands. Then I through them on the floor, ate more pizza, picked them up and started using it again. I repeated this process until it no longer fanned. Then I stuck it in my freezer for 10 minutes and took them out.

Again they felt like new.

What I have found out is very strange. It would appear that if you place a crapy deck of cards in a cold are for a certain amount of time they begin the feel like new.

And they last for a week not just 10 minutes of smoothness.

Just something interesting,
Dylan P.
 
May 2, 2008
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:)

Haha nice discovery, I discovered this as well. I am actually not sure why this works, but, I usually do it in the fridge, not the freezer. Thanks for the freezer idea.

Does anyone know why/how this works?


Thanks for bringing this up Dylan,

-Sanj
 
Nov 7, 2008
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Hofstra Univ.
Thas really interesting actually.

Something I noticed recently is heat will also do something interesting to cards. My cards tend do this popping thing when they get used a lot. If I leave them on my window sill exposed to the sun then popping stops and my guess is it leaves the cards softer.

Just my two cents

Have a good one!
 
Sep 2, 2007
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It's the moisture and grease on the cards that stops them spreading well and softens them up. The air in a fridge (or freezer, apparently) is quite dry, so it tends to draw the moisture out. The same would apply to leaving them in the sun. I've found that they need a good go in a card press after taking them out of the fridge though.
 
Oct 9, 2008
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holy **** dude omfg it really worked at first they felt a lil wet but it went away after it dryed so yea now i know wat to do..i never need to buy a new deck lol
 
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