Japanese crossword «Card of Death»
| Size: 12x20 | Picture: | Difficulty: | Added: | 04.02.22 | Author: epelpaj |
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I've never been so frightened of a playing card!
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That's given me an idea of what to get the wife for her birthday...just a thought.
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Thank you! I'm trying to create some more complicated pictures, but it takes a lot of practice :)
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epelpaj, thanks for your new puzzle. It had me fooled until the end. What are these H's for, I thought at first. :-)
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I had the four central lines complete (or nearly so) and had noticed the asymmetry and knew what it was going to be. *pats self on head*
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Why is it of dead? May be a game that I don't know?
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"Card of Death" is a common nickname for the card. I don't know where the name comes from.
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In some methods of cartomancy--reading playing cards for fortunetelling, similar to reading tarot cards--spades are unlucky or predict bad things, and the ace of spades is the "Death" card. (This doesn't hold true across all forms of cartomancy--like, in traditional German suits, spades are the "good" cards and a reading heavy in spades is considered very lucky and promising.)