Card Flash: Snakes & Ladders Playing Cards

Best known for their casino-themed animated playing cards, Mechanic Industries released a new deck based on the classic board game – snakes and ladders.

The card back design features snakes, snakes, and more snakes! Hence, the theme for the deck. The Mechanical Industries logo is prominently featured in the center, encircled with rotating snakes. Also, there are two snakes circling the card back design. When the cards are animated, the snakes spin around- like a rotating DNA sequence.

All of the aces are custom, the Ace of Spades in particular showcases a big ladder with a snake on it, which made the shape of a big spade pip. The rest of the aces featured their respective pip with either snakes or a ladder sticking out of it.

The courts for the deck are slightly modified to fit up with this board game theme. Each royal have yellow snake eyes, with their garments are adorned with that same color. Also, they are holding snakes in their hands or have ladders behind them.

Two Jokers are included, one shows a snake coming in from the bottom side and sliding into the ladder, while the other shows the snake circling around the ladder in a loop in the shape of infinity. These two jokers are part of the magic trick provided with the deck.

The cards are printed by the USPCC and available for $12 from your favorite Murphy’s Magic retailers.