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The Abbot's Cloister

The Cards of Coppertwaddle, Their Origins and Strategies Explained

The COPPERTWADDLE deck contains a total of 55 cards divided into three distinct groups (or Natures); these are the Threlms, Favours, and Declarations. In addition, the cards are collectively grouped according to a predetermined hierarchy called the Sequence.

There is a secret message hidden within the form and order of the Coppertwaddle cards, first appearing in the late 17th Century, which can be deciphered using the Abbot's Puzzle.

Threlms Abbot, The Bentham Fish, The Curmudgeon, The Father Time Flibber-de-Gibbet Hammer And Anvil Hemlock Hissoppe Lecturn Leper, The Lock And Key Lute And Bellows Mother Milk Mount Ararat Narwhal New World, The Ocean, The Old Hag, The Spleen Squire Haversack Steeple Trepaner Two Swift Horses Wind, East Wind, North Wind, South Wind, West Yeoman	Favours Assizes Call To Arms Capstan Captain's Reversal Compass Coppertwaddle (2) Dread Of Night Favour At Court Glad Tidings Land Ho! (2) An Hundred Buttons Peaked Cap (2) Sextant Thrust And Parry Wheel, The Woe	Declarations Birthday, The (2) Hazelnut, The Long Climb, A Massinger's Protection Of a Bastard Line War With France (2)
There are 28 Threlms including the Four Winds.	There are 16 distinct Favours, three of which appear twice in the standard deck	There are 8 distinct Declarations, two of which appear twice in the standard deck

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The Cards of Coppertwaddle, Their Origins and Strategies Explained