Danger Mines Playing Cards
These cards are designed to help people identify and learn more about landmines.
In addition to being used as normal playing cards, they can also be used for "top trumps". This is a game - particularly popular with children - where the objective is to win all of your opponent's cards. Players take it in turns to nominate a category, such as diameter; both players read the figure on their card and the higher figure wins. A variation allows players to specify whether the highest or lowest value will win during their turn.In order to stand the best chance of winning, players must try to select an outstanding attribute from each card.
Experience has shown that people soon become familiar with the pictures and absorb the technical detail effortlessly as they play.Careful thought has been given to helping the recognition and learning process. To begin with, each suit represents a different mine category:
- Clubs are anti-tank mines
- Diamonds are anti-personnel mines with a low metal content, making them hard to detect
- Hearts are anti-personnel mines containing enough metal to make them easily detectable
- Spades are fragmentation mines, capable of causing injury at great distances
- Jokers are two of the most common and sensitive submunitions that act much like mines.
Aces and picture cards are mines of particular significance and, in most cases, the card number relates directly to the mine designation to help remember it.
