Nowhere was this more the case than in Australia.
Playing cards gradually spread around the western world and as they did so, different, but loosely related, games evolved in different ways.
While cards as a concept go back hundreds of years and probably originate in China, the 52-card deck with which we are all familiar today first appeared in the late 1400s in Europe. Playing cards, however, have proved remarkably resilient. One downside of the technological age is that it has consigned so many traditional games and pastimes to obsolescence.
