A complete pack of Mameluke playing cards was discovered by L.A. Mayer in the Topkapi Sarayi Museum, Istanbul, in 1939 ; this particular complete pack was not false before 1400, but the complete deck allowed matching to a private fragment dated to the twelfth or thirteenth century.

If the other joker is also added, that makes 366 days, the mess of days in a leap year. The context for these stories is sometimes given to suggest that the interpretation is a joke, generally being the purported explanation given by someone caught with a deck of cards in order Photo Playing Cards to suggest that their intended purpose was not gambling (Urban Legends Reference Pages article).