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The Rainbow Deck is a cardgame system that has a total of 162 cards. There are 12 suits with each suit having 13 ranks, and 6 Joker cards. The suits are represented by both colour and number. The ranks are from 0 to 9, J to K. The cards also numbered from 0 to 119, and have letters from A to Z.

The deck can be adapted to play a variety of games, just like a deck of Poker cards. The difference is that Rainbow deck has 8 more suits, numbers from 0 to 119 as well as alphabet letters, thus it is most suitable for playing abstract games that require numbers, colours or letters. It can also be used by game designers as components in their own prototype games. Players can also combine the deck with other boardgames with components having colours, numbers or letters to from new games!

The deck can be complemented by 6 colours x 27 chips and 6 coloured dice. This allows playing of cardgames that require chips or dice. Also, the cardbacks have a 2x3 checkerboard pattern and they can be used to form boards which, together with the chips, can be used to play a variety of abstract games.

Rainbow Deck - Reinventing the playing cards!

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BGG v1.17
http://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/48531/rainbow-deck

GameCrafter v1.17
http://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/rainbow-deck
http://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/rainbow-deck-deluxe (contains additional 6 colours x 27 chips)
https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/rainbow-deck-superdeluxe (contains additional 6 colours x 27 chips and 6 coloured dice)

Artscow v1.17 (split into 3 x 54 decks)
http://www.artscow.com/gallery/playing-cards/rainbow-deck-v1-17-e3wtsvfyqlep
http://www.artscow.com/gallery/playing-cards/rainbow-deck-v1-17-lwbizcq9o3kq
http://www.artscow.com/gallery/playing-cards/rainbow-deck-v1-17-ri4lfece9tm1

Rainbow Deck by Chen Changcai is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

A Geeklist that contains the games that the deck can be adapted to play can be found here
http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/47512

A wiki on the Rainbow Deck has been created. The main objective for the wiki is to store the games that the RD can play, the rules of the games, as well as suggested card mapping. Everyone is allowed to contribute to this wiki.
http://www.ludism.org/rainbow

Discussion thread can be found in the Board Game Design forum here
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/453565

Original games for the Rainbow Deck
http://www.ludism.org/rainbow/OriginalGames

Excel sheet with rules of games that the Rainbow Deck can be mapped to play
http://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/70846/rd-mapped-games-v1-0
http://www.ludism.org/rainbow/ShortRules (pdf format)

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4 RD Mapped Games
Rules of the games that the Rainbow Deck can be mapped to play. All the game rules are obtained and summarized from the files and links on the BGG website. If you like the mapped game and it is still available, do consider buying it!
2011-09-24
5 Rainbow Deck images
Rainbow deck v1.16 images, 300dpi.
2010-06-11
4 Rainbow Deck Nandeck code and images
Rainbow deck v1.17 Nandeck code
2010-04-27
5 Zodiac Pictures
Zodiac Pictures (for card face) in SVG format with rainbow deck colors
2009-11-26
6 Zodiac symbols.
Zodiac symbols in SVG format with rainbow deck colors
2009-11-26
2 Rainbow Deck Tuckbox
Rainbow Deck Tuckbox v1.12. Made to contain cards made from 250gsm cardstock using the website http://www.cpforbes.net/tuckbox/tuckbox.cgi
2009-11-07
16 Rainbow Deck
Rainbow deck v1.17 - Redistributed the letters so that the ratio of the letters from 1 to 54, 108 or 162 range are roughly the same. - Aligned the orientation of the larger center numbers and letters to match those at the corners. - Changed the cardback design from squares to coloured circles, to enable formation of hexagonal boards. - Enlarged the size of the center & corner numbers/letters/poker suits as well as the colour bars. - Removed the numbers and letters and top right and bottom left of the cardfront. - Removed dice suits and replaced them by adding tears and stars suits to form total 6 symbol suits. - Added symbol suits inside each circle on the cardback, alternating dark and light suits to enable formation of checkboard. - Added rainbow gradient background for the...
2009-10-24
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