AG Moody said the 5,000 specialized decks of playing cards with photographs and information about unsolved homicides or missing people would be passed out to inmates with hopes of gathering new leads.

Jan. 6 (UPI) -- A Chinese man with a unique skill set broke a pair of Guinness World Records by using hand-thrown playing cards to slice cucumbers and light matches. Zhang Yazhou, aka NengLiangJun ...

Either way, these cards were originally hand-painted on paper or parchment. Fast-forward a few hundred years to the Ming Dynasty—which lasted from 1368-1644 AD—and you’ll find playing cards ...

Bicycle playing cards, the most popular brand in the world, have been a quiet Cincinnati product, made by the U.S. Playing Card Co. since 1885.

But that feeling is not easy to manufacture. “I don’t enjoy the idea [that] when you deal a deck of cards to play a Solitaire, you might get an impossible hand,” Teikari said.