Forty-nine years later, the same old tattered card keeps going back and forth between Staab and Champion around this time of year. "It started as a joke," Champion said of the exchange that began ...

Flagship game: Junior hanafuda, a centuries-old style of Japanese playing cards reimagined with a punchy, modern design. For Louie Mantia, it all started with an emoji. An icon designer by trade ...

A 58-year-old Seattle man whose arrest for a 1979 killing was prompted by a tip from a deck of playing cards has pleaded guilty to the murder. A prison inmate reported the tip last year after ...