Who is the original Jack of Hearts?

11/3/2011

Once again we have baffled the community!

While 99% of the entries were correct in the history, it was not the information we were looking for. Everyone knows who the original Jack of Hearts was, but not everyone knew his significance to playing cards. In fact, only one person out of 63 entries gave us at least 2 correct answers. For each correct answer, we are awarding this person with a deck each.

Congratulations to Andre Vlok for gving us two correct answers in his entry. Andre wins 2 Mana decks!

As for the rest of the participants - you still have a chance at winning! Since almost all of you answered question #1 correctly, we are entering your names in another random draw through Random.org. We are giving away 3 decks to 3 random winners of this draw. We will post the results soon!

And now for all of you who really want to know who the original Jack of Hearts was....

Who is the original Jack of Hearts?
Étienne Vignoles a.k.a. La Hire (The Hire God)

What significance did this person have?
Étienne Vignoles invented the card game Piquet, which used four different suits that he himself designed. The Coeurs (Hearts) which represented the church, Carreaux (Arrowheads) which represented the archers, Trefles (Clovers) which represented the husbandmen and the Piques (Lance Points) which represented the knights.

Who was his partner and what significance did he have?
Étienne Chevalier was an artist and draftsman and was the secretary of the King of France, King Charles VII. He was also La Hire's friend and helped design La Hire's original four suits into the suits that we all know and love today. While the hearts and clovers remained the same, the arrowheads became diamonds and the lance points became spades.

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seraph

11/3/2011 03:26:36 pm

OMG, this information doesn't have on wiki
lol

Admin

11/3/2011 04:21:25 pm

We have posted our sources on our facebook page in the comment section of our post. :)

Brandon O'Hanley

11/3/2011 07:08:37 pm

And now it all makes way more sense than, just a French commander lol

Dawgs

11/3/2011 08:57:31 pm

wow,,, i learned alot,, heheheheeh

11/3/2011 10:47:28 pm

Hey, congrats, I totally went the history route with him as an army guy! I did not even go the card route, but duh this is a card website, congrats!! Though I did not know he came up the Piquet, that is kool! again congrats!!

Reca

11/4/2011 12:39:45 am

Congrats :)

Andre

11/4/2011 01:03:19 am

Wow, thanks fellas. That was an good contest! Cheers.

Max

11/4/2011 09:26:13 am

I don't have nothing against results.

But your questions wasn't accurate.
1. Do you really believe that the card game Piquet is more important than his services in battles? By the way did someone send you a historical book about La Hire in answer?:)
2. I think this place is the first one for posting the reference on appropriate information about La Hire (or should we all move on Facebook?). I'd like to read who is prepared to swear that La Hire was the inventor of the game. "legend attributes the game's creation to..." is more suitable for this situation. Feel the difference between this and his documented historical achievements.
3. I can understand your catch in your questions. But you didn't draw it rightly.
4. Eventually your final distribution of prizes corrects your inaccuracy in the questions. But I hope you'll be more accurate hereafter.

Erik

11/4/2011 03:23:47 pm

Hi Max.

Thank you for your input. All the references that I used are posted in our facebook page. And yes, I have a book on Playing Card History which has this information documented. It was this book that I first learned of La Hire's contribution to the world of playing cards and so I wanted to do further research to find support.

Obviously you cannot compare his achievements in battle to a little card game, but I felt his contribution to the playing card world meant a lot more to us in this community than his battles. It was not meant to demean La Hire's history, but rather I wanted to edify his contribution and educate fellow collectors of this amazing discovery.

I knew my questions were vague in delivery because truth be told, I knew that most, if not all would easily go to wiki (like I did) and get the more obvious information that is more public knowledge. Having said that, I was hoping that people would dig deeper to maybe try to find some other connection that makes this one particular person matter to us more than the rest.

Maybe you feel cheated in some way, and I'm sorry you feel that way. However, I felt this was a good contest that had merit to our interests and that would give something back the community, more than just a deck of cards, but rather some meaningful insight to why we love playing cards in the first place.

In the end our intentions are not to mislead anybody. After all, we wouldn't be doing these contests if we really didn't want to give away any decks at all. I hope you understand our efforts here.

Thank you again Max for your input. We take everyone's input to heart. It is very important to us.

Best regards,
Erik :)

11/7/2011 06:39:18 am

Hi Erik,

Thanks for your reaction. As I said I understand your catch in your questions. My comment wasn't about misleading with the aim to keep the decks. I meant other thing.

Try to abstract from the book and think like other insiders. There were not a hint of specificity of appropriate significance. I don't agree with the statement that contest dedicated to playing cards is automatically connected only with playing cards. And the results of the contest proved my confidence.

Even in case of mentioning Piquet I doubt many people could describe Étienne Chevalier in answer to your 3d question.

So I only think that your questions had to be more considered. You had to make some appropriate hints in your questions. Other than that the contest was superb.

Best regards,
Max

11/7/2011 01:14:06 pm

Hi Max,

I understand your point and agree. There should have been some lead into playing cards with the questions. Good input and very much noted. Much thanks :)

Best regards,
Erik

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