Boxed cards

[Barnhart]

In Tom Clark's Dictionary of Gambling & Gaming (Lexik, c. 1987) the
following entry appears:

boxed card, n. A card facing the wrong direction in a deck; a card
accidentally turned face up in a pack in which the rest of the cards
are face down.
[1968 Wallace Poker 211]

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David Barnhart

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