While playing Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, we learned a neat little fact about cards. Apparently, a deck of cards represents a calendar year -- there are four suits because there are four seasons in a year, and there are fifty-two cards because there are fifty-two weeks.Also, if you assign each card a numeric value from one to thirteen (with an ace equaling one, a king equaling thirteen), they will add up to 364. That's why there are two jokers: One makes the year complete, since a year has 365 days, and the other is there because there's an extra day during leap years.
Are there any cool little facts you've learned from games that you've played? Maybe even something less trivial than the card fact above? Share them with us. This way, you'll have some ammo when people scold you about not learning anything from video games.
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3-17-2008 @ 10:33AM
tamriel said...
I learned much of what I know of Europe geography playing Railroad Tycoon on my old, old PC. I was not so interested into playing in the US, though. Would have been enriching, then.
Back to the Atlas I say!
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4-03-2008 @ 5:31PM
Neomattrix said...
Just FYI: this is a really good deck of cards (picked up for 12$ in Akihabara).
The only issue is that I don't want to play with them. A single tear, and I will cry.
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