Stacofax: An Educational Card Game You Can Make Yourself

By James E. Mays Iii
Published on May 1, 1983
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Typical design for Stacofax playcards.
Typical design for Stacofax playcards.
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Typical design for a Stacofax keycard.
Typical design for a Stacofax keycard.
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The Stacofax card game has two types of cards: playcards and keycards.
The Stacofax card game has two types of cards: playcards and keycards.

Borrow a few basic rules from rummy and old maid, add the conviction that learning can be fun, and shuffle in a goodly dose of do-it-yourself imagination. What do you get? Well, I got Stacofax: an educational card game and self-help system I developed for people who, like me, hate to memorize facts and figures!

One of the best features of Stacofax (Get it? The deck is a stack of facts!) is its versatility. You can create variations of the game to suit children, adults, or players of all ages. Furthermore, it’s possible to make cards that are meant to sharpen general knowledge, or that focus on one or more specific problem subjects.

If you have trouble with spelling, for example, you can make a Stacofax deck that will teach you, in just a couple of hours of fun, how to orthographize such words as dysrhythmia, jactitation, and … well, orthographize. Or if you’ve never quite been able to learn, say, the Presidents, the 50 states, or metric conversions, it’s my bet that playing Stacofax can help. And believe it or not, you’ll hardly know you’re being educated because you’ll be too busy enjoying yourself.

Before you sit down to make a set of Stacofax playing cards, though, you’ll need to know a little more about how the game works.

The Stacofax Deck

All Stacofax decks are made up of two kinds of cards: keycards and playcards.

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