I started getting involved with the 52Plus Joker club around 2021 and I wish I had started earlier. Fun, community, and educational. And it's cheap to join. I think $25 per year. What do you get for that $25 investment?
1. A printed magazine: Clear The Decks. This arrives quarterly and is a fabulous read. I can also leave it around the house to remind everyone what type of guy I am!
2. The 52Plus Joker Forum. A good old-fashioned forum with threaded discussions where you can look up what people said last week, month, and year. I really miss the forums: most of them were destroyed by Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
3. Auctions! I think they've done two a year recently. One is purely online: the other is online and in person at the conference. At the conference, there is both a live and a silent auction. I have both bought and sold.
4. Conferences Annually? You bet! Every year in October, about 200 hundred quirky friendly people get together. Most seem to have a magic background. There are card artists. Card designers. Cardistry people. And many different types of collectors. I've now been to both to the 2023 and 2024 conferences and I intend to go pretty much every year going forward.
5. A second magazine: Card Culture. This one is purely online.
My advice: Click thru right now and join the 52 Plus Joker Club!
My Visit to The Playing Card Museum in Paris - July 2023
My Visit to the Founier Card Museum in Vitoria Gastiez Spain - July 2024
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Thanks for your input and for reading and thinking about jokers.