Labyrinth Playing Cards on Kickstarter

At first glance, Labyrinth appears restrained... clean lines, familiar structure, a simple deck of cards. It isn’t. Designed by Jackson Robinson of Kings Wild Project, Labyrinth is a puzzle-based playing card deck in which every court card is a fully solvable maze. 

The Kings, Queens, and Jacks are not illustrated in the traditional sense. Instead, they are hidden within the maze itself. Each court card begins as nothing more than an intricate labyrinth: no portraits, no faces, no obvious imagery. Only paths, turns, and dead ends. 

The card offers no visual clues as to what it contains. To reveal the court, the maze must be solved. When the correct path is traced from beginning to end, it resolves into the full form of the King, Queen, or Jack. The portrait is not printed on top of the design, it is formed by the solution. The puzzle and the image are one and the same.

Adding another layer to the concept, the maze solutions and the court figures they create are printed in invisible UV-reactive ink. Under normal lighting, the cards show only the maze structure, with no answers or hints. When exposed to ultraviolet light, the hidden path illuminates and the court figure emerges. What was previously concealed becomes instantly visible, reinforcing the deck’s central theme of discovery.

Originally conceived and drawn over seven years ago, Labyrinth’s full vision was delayed due to the high cost and technical limitations of UV-reactive printing at the time. Recent advancements in printing technology have made the process far more accessible, allowing the concept to be realized as originally intended.

Labyrinth continues Jackson's tradition of detail-driven, concept-forward playing card design. Rather than relying on ornate illustration alone, the deck invites interaction. It rewards patience and attention, offering both a functional pack of cards and a layered puzzle experience within the courts.

Printed by KWPCC and pledge starts at $14 on Kickstarter.  

Bicycle Disney Beauty and the Beast Inspired Playing Cards

Step into the timeless magic of Disney’s classic tale with Bicycle Disney Beauty and the Beast Inspired Playing Cards. Housed in an elegant gold-foiled tuck box, this enchanting deck transforms family game nights into a moment of storybook wonder.

Inside, each court card has been custom-designed to bring beloved characters... Belle, the Beast, Mrs. Potts, and others, to life in stunning detail, while the card backs feature the iconic enchanted rose, adding a touch of fairy-tale charm to every game.

Printed by the USPCC on premium Bicycle cardstock with the signature Air-Cushion finish. Available now for $.12.99 on Cardtopia.

Deck View: Fiamma Rossa Playing Cards

Fiery. Tempting. Opulent.

Fiamma Rossa from Thirdway Industries explores the seductive pull of danger through rich materials and symbolic design. Created as a 2025 Q1 Patreon release, the deck features fully custom faces highlighted with gold cold foil, while the backs shimmer with layered red and gold hot foil. 

Black gilded edges frame the cards, amplifying the dramatic contrast and reinforcing its theme of forbidden allure. The tuck box mirrors the intensity, dressed in multiple layers of foil inside and out, finished with a numbered seal. 

Limited to 1,000 decks and printed by LPCC. Available now for $32 on Thirdway Industries.

Cryptids Playing Cards: Black Shuck & Mothman

Launching on Tuesday 17th February at 4pm UK time (11am EST/8am PST)- the latest campaign from A. Haines Playing Cards: Cryptids Playing Cards: Black Shuck & Mothman.

Combining a long-held love of fantastic creatures with their love of hand-drawn vintage playing cards, the new project from AHPC pays homage to two mythical monsters: from England, the phantom hound Black Shuck, and from the USA, the infamous Mothman, each character being honoured with their own deck of playing cards in a collectable two-deck set, using a colour palette of deep red and black set against aged paper. 

The legend of Black Shuck goes all the way back to the year 1577 when the beast was reported to appear as a terrible form at a village church during a large electrical storm. Reports of the ghostly dog endure up  until the current day, with some witnesses reporting Shuck to be as large as a horse and with burning red or orange eyes, he is often encountered by lone walkers out at night, deep in the countryside of rural Suffolk and Norfolk on the East coast of the UK. 

Mothman first appeared in a graveyard in West Virginia in 1966 and haunted the area around the town of Point Pleasant for a year until the collapse of the Silver Bridge, when he vanished just as abruptly as he had appeared. The legend of Mothman lived on however, and in recent times he has been sighted all across the Great Lakes areas, and is even known to frequent Chicago on a dark, rainy night.  

The courts are original and adapted from a one-way British design, hundreds of years old, here transformed into symmetrical two-way cards for optimum functionality. The entire project is hand-drawn and uses no stock elements or A.I. 

Both decks are housed in matte tuckboxes and printed on premium classic finish by Legends PCC - and available in standard and gilded editions, with Shuck's edges being a matte black and Mothman's being a smooth red. 

Have a look at the pre-launch Kickstarter page here! Early Bird deals will be available during the first 24 hrs of the campaign -  and there will even be one or two extras to look out for on launch day!