Maayan's idea disrupts a tradition that’s hundreds of years old.
“Why is the King always worth more than the Queen?” Maayan, an Israeli teenager, asked her dad during a game of cards one night. He wasn’t sure. They could have googled the answer or shrugged their shoulders and kept on with their game, but instead, Maayan and her father decided to create a deck of cards that places equal value on the male and female cards.
ADVERTISEMENT Here’s how the game works: the king and queen cards are now referred to simply as monarch cards, and both are equal to what a king card would be in traditional rules. Next come Duke and Duchess cards which, as you might have guessed, equal queen cards by the old rules. Jack cards now are Prince and Princess cards. The set even includes a female joker.
Playing cards have been around since before 1000 AD, with the familiar 52 card deck emerging around the 1400s. That means Maayan and her dad’s idea disrupts a tradition that’s hundreds of years old. Another Kickstarter campaign from 2018 named Kween Cards gender-swapped the king and queen to give women the upper hand , but no one has created cards where the queen and king hold their same titles, but enjoy equality.
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