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i love collecting cool playing cards and these are perfect. Well made and looks fancy. Always draws a laugh and is perfect for poker nights or go fish with the fam.

Good heavy playing cards. The graphics look good and are printed well.

Coffee lovers can rejoice as these are a fun way to express your caffeine reliance. Serious card players may not appreciate the feel or stiffness of the cards, nor the way they shuffle or fail to as easily slide across one another as big name playing cards do. The cards don't have the same waxy feel or slippery surface as a typical card so true afficionados may think twice .. however, these will likely get better with use in terms of stiffness (likely won't help the surface feel or friction however).

This is a nice set of cards with an interesting wine theme. They also include a carrying tin. I like that you get great education around red wine while enjoying your favorite card game.

I'm reviewing this more as a playing card collector as opposed to a casual card player, so the things I look for may not matter to you. These cards of Chinese origin are slick and thick, similar in feel to Piatnik cards from Austria. They feature a coffee-colored one-way card back design, although the coffee bean motif would not be easily discerned as one-way. All cards feature a coffee-themed bit of tri-colored artwork in lieu of court cards and pips. The artwork is the same for 2 through 10 for all the suits, while the art for the aces, jacks, kings and queens is unique to each suit. In all there are 26 different designs featuring coffee drinks and gadgets, including the jokers, which are delineated as high and low jokers with contrasting colors in the text. The cards are encased in a metal tin similar to the ones that contain breath mints, pleasingly decorated in the same colorway as the cards. The cards are clearly meant as a gift to a coffee-loving card player, and are designed for table play as opposed to cardistry. There is an additional advertising card included, but it has an ad on both sides and would not serve as a replacement card. I happen to collect decks on a coffee theme, so these appeal to me; the oversized metal container is much larger than a standard tuck box. I have only seen the coffee themed cards, but I imagine the other cards in this series would carry similar characteristics. Pretty good value, appealing design, and the quality is higher than a cheap souvenir deck but not as high as the best cards with specialty tucks and crushed paper stocks. Registration and printing are good quality, though.

The Yellow Cab Coffee Playing Cards have some interesting design choices. The coffee theme is certainly appealing. The problem with the cards is that the card stock is a little stiff and inflexible and that the plain finish means that the cards do not handle well.Kudos to Yellow Cab for offering these cards in a very nicely designed tin, rather than a plain box.The card design uses different coffee beverages--with pictures of the coffee in cups paired in twos--instead of pips. So instead of hearts, diamonds, spades, and clubs, you have coffee drinks pictured on the fronts of the cards. Additionally, there are two beverages per card. Whereas a 'normal' 5 of hearts would have 5 hearts on the front of the card, these 5s of hears have two mochas drawn on the face of the card. From a design standpoint this makes the cards less recognizable at a quick glance. You will recognize that the mocha is the 5 of hearts, as the indices of the cards--the number and suit in the opposite corners of the card--are there. As a side point, the red cards are red, but the black cards are done in a dark brown.The number cards all have sketches of pairs of coffee drinks:2s: Frappuccinos3s: Espresso macchiato4s: Americanos5s: Mochas6s: Lattes7s: Thai coffee8s: Cappuccinos9s: Irish coffee10s: Turkish coffeeThe royals and aces have two drawings apiece but are all different, but no recognizable themes--they are a combination of different coffee making appliances (red suits) and miscellaneous coffee drinks (black suits). For exampleAH: SiphonAD: EspressoAS: Red pressAC: CortadoorJH; Espresso laccinoJD: Black RussianJS: GrinderJC: Moka (maker)Jokers are identical, except in the color of the word 'JOKER' and depict two bags of coffee. The back design of the cards are coffee beans with a white border.The drawings are sketch type drawings that are done in three colors. They have the pleasant, retro feel of illustrations from the 1950s/1960s. The renderings are interesting. However, there is little relationship to the numbers and the coffees used. There is an overriding theme, but it was not done cleverly.The major criticism here is that the cards are not quickly recognizable as what they are for game play given the absence of pips. This, in and of itself, would not be a deal breaker, as they have very clear card indices. The major downfall of these cards is that they handle poorly. They card stock is stiff and not all that pliable, making the cards difficult to riffle shuffle. The card surfaces have a flat, waxy finish which creates a lot of friction. This makes them difficult to handle--overhand shuffle, deal, etc.They are definitely fun and I really like the tin case. If you are a die hard coffee fan and need a coffee themed deck of cards, these may work for you, but otherwise the design is not intriguing enough, well thought out enough. What really kills it for me, though, is that the cards just don't handle well. Sadly, these don't work for me...

When my cousin and I take our girls trips, there are 2 things that are always a given, card playing and cocktails. I keep this card set in my suitcase at all times. The playing cards are a good thickness and weight and were fairly stiff to start with but have become properly broke in now. As someone who plays cards a lot, these took a while to get used to just because I am used to seeing the larger, colorful pips in the center of the playing card. The cocktail recipes are kind of basic but are still a fun touch. I love that the deck comes in a nice tin case to protect the cards from damage. These are very giftable, but not something that I would use on a daily basis.