<P> Also in 1938, Parker Brothers created a five - suit bridge deck called Castle Bridge, in which the fifth suit of Castles looked like a Rook chess piece and was colored green . This pack reused the diamond courts for the new suit . The manual that came with this deck did not use Marseille's rules but Ammiel F. Decker's 1933 rules . </P> <P> In the mid to late 1930s there was an increase in the popularity of bridge . Thought up one summer night by Austrian gamester Walther Marseille, Ph. D., rules were first devised for a fifth suit based on a green or invulnerable suit . In 1937, a book for rules using the fifth suit was written in Vienna, Austria, and patented for this set of rules . This fifth suit was produced by a number of companies . In 1935, De La Rue of Great Britain created a Bridge deck called De La Rue's Five Suit Contract Bridge Playing Cards . This deck contained cards using grey - blue colored crowns called Royals as a fifth suit . According to the rules published by Parker Brothers, credit is given to Ammiel F. Decker for the rules in 1933 . The fifth suit of Greens was called Blätter, or leaves . In 1937 and 1938, Waddington's of London created a fifth suit of more detailed crowns also called Royals, which respectively featured light blue and dark green crowns . In the same year there were three American decks that included a green Eagle as a fifth suit in similar Bridge decks of playing cards . The deck published by United States Playing Card Company used the Eagle in a medium green and the pips in the corners were inside green circles . The second deck was by Russell Playing Cards (owned by the United States Playing Card Company) used the same Eagle but in a darker shade and the pips in the corners were devoid of the circle . The third deck was by Arrco in 1938 and used an Eagle as well . At least five other bridge books were subsequently published to support playing Bridge with rules for this fifth suit, including one by Arrco in 1938 . It is more than likely the book that Arrco published was for their own deck . Parker Brothers created a fifth - suit Bridge deck in 1938 called Castle Bridge, in which the fifth suit of Castles looked like a Rook chess piece and was colored green . After 1938, the popularity of this fifth suit fell off and the decks were no longer produced for Bridge . The title of a science - fiction novel by James Blish, Jack of Eagles, refers to the main character being different . </P> <P> A number of the following out - of - print decks may be found, especially through on - line auctions . Previously, Five Star Playing Cards poker sized, was manufactured by Five Star Games, which had a gold colored fifth suit of five pointed stars . The court cards are almost identical to the diamond suit in a Gemaco Five - Star deck . Five - suit decks using the Star suit are still in print in differing designs through vendors such as Stardeck and Newton's Novelties . Cadaco manufactured a game Tripoley Wild with a fifth suit, (and other Wild Cards,) which contain pips of all four standard suits (hearts, diamonds, spades, and clubs) on one card . That poker sized deck is not sold separately, but as part of boxed game . Five suited decks include Cinco - Loco Poker Playing Cards, produced by the USA Playing Card Company (not the United States Playing Card Company,) which introduces a new suit design . The Cinco - Loco fifth suit uses a complicated pattern, with color designs in a repeating circular series of pentagrams with four traditional suits in a four color pattern, inner circles get increasingly smaller, the fifth symbol in the circle of pentagrams is a yellow pentagram . There are then a total of ten symbols in each of the outer and repeated in inner circles . The other suits use a four - color design . </P> <P> 5 ° Dimension is an 80 - card deck introduced in 2007 . The five suits are Hearts (red), Spades (black), Clubs (green), Diamonds (yellow) and Stars (blue). Each suit has 16 cards: 1 to 10, King, Queen, Jack, Princess, Ace (distinct from 1) and a Joker . </P>

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