The Meaning Behind the Cards in 'Alice in Borderland'

Here's the true meaning behind all of the cards featured in the hit Netflix sequence 'Alice in Borderland.'

Chris Barilla - Author

(Spoiler Warning: This article incorporates details about Season 2 of Alice in Borderland)

Get in a position, Alice in Borderland fanatics, as the hit Netflix collection is again and better than ever for its 2nd season of video games. After the season one finale left fans on the edge of their seats, we now know what is in store. Indeed, the 2d iteration of the games sees gamers pivoting from numerals towards the other aspect of a taking part in card deck: face cards.

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There's so much to stay alongside of in the games on Alice in Borderland (beyond simply knowing the folks involved). But do not be disturbed, because we're right here to give an explanation for what each card kind across Seasons 1 and 2 of Alice in Borderland means. Keep studying to check all of them out!

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What is the meaning of the numbered cards in 'Alice in Borderland'?

During the first season of the show, gamers have been tasked with beating as many video games as imaginable. This allowed them to extend their Borderland visa — and thus their lives — by way of collecting as many numbered playing cards as imaginable (which used to be the objective of the spherical).

Club cards

When it comes to club cards in Alice in Borderland, the identify of the game is consider. Team video games require a large number of verbal exchange and if players work in combination, they'll be more likely to make it through. Club games have been featured twice in the first season of the display. The first time was once when Arisu (Kento Yamazaki) plays with the "Dead or Alive" doors, and the 2d was once when players were tasked to play a recreation of "It."

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Heart cards

If there may be one form of card recreation that a player doesn't want to face, it is the coronary heart card. The games caused by way of those are wholly psychological and can destroy the consider that avid gamers have constructed between one another. During Season 1, gamers are put in a hard place when they play the "Ten of Hearts" game, which forces them to spot a witch and solid that person into hearth.

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Diamond cards

Critical thinking is essential in a diamond card game. Analysis, critical pondering, and a variety of strategy are needed to protected a victory in a diamond game. For context, Season 1 saw Arisu tackle one diamond game. This took place when he performed the "Four of Diamonds" recreation (bear in mind the switch and the lightbulb?) which came about on the seashore and proved his price to sign up for The Collective.

Spade cards

Players will have to get in a position to get bodily if they come across a spade card, as it will take a look at the physical staying power of everyone involved. We see this occur right at the starting of Season 2 when the King of Spades' sport attracts everybody into a dangerous circumstance that lasts the complete season.

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What is the meaning of the face cards in 'Alice in Borderland'?

As we pivot to precise face cards, it is value noting that the new objective is to assemble as a lot of them as conceivable. Face cards constitute citizens who each result in games related to their aforementioned go well with's traits. Here are all of the ones that our players come into touch with.

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King of Spades

The first face card to pose a topic to avid gamers is the King of Spades. Right from the starting of the display, he spawns as a mercenary who will prevent at nothing to try to kill all the avid gamers. He is a continuing right through all of Season 2 and the sport won't end until avid gamers manage to kill him. They're also ready to track him across the city and take solace in the fact that he can't interrupt another games happening.

King of Clubs

The position of King of Clubs is given to Kyuma (Tomohisa Yamashita), who leads the sport "Osmosis." There, Arisu will have to take Kyuma's group on in a sport that has a seemingly endless list of laws and requires the winner to emerge victorious through having extra issues than their competitor. With 10,000 points a staff, avid gamers are pit in opposition to each different and against their entire opposing team in order to steal issues and end the recreation with the higher general level valuation.

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Queen of Diamonds

We do not know a lot about what occurs during the Queen of Diamonds sport as all viewers see of it throughout Episode 5 is that it happened in an enormous automobile storage and had few survivors depart at the finish of it all. Yikes.

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Jack of Spades

Like the Queen of Diamonds, main points are sparse on the Jack of Spades as of the time of writing. However, a recreation that calls for bodily combat is in brief shown in Episode 5, featuring Kuina (Asahina Aya), which one could most effective suppose is the Jack of Spades recreation given the context of what Spades entail.

Queen of Spades

Episode 5 additionally sees the expose of the Queen of Spades recreation. The game is named "Checkmate" and it facilities around players attempting to steal contributors of their opposing crew via tapping a button on the again of a tool they've. The workforce with the maximum gamers at the end wins and the losers are killed.

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King of Diamonds

The King of Diamonds comes into play when Chishiya (Nijirô Murakami) takes on a sport of intelligence against the King of Diamonds, Kuzuryu (Tsuyoshi Abe). The recreation duties gamers with settling on a bunch between Zero and 100. The moderate of the selected numbers is then multiplied by .Eight and the winner is the group whose ultimate number is closest to the King of Diamond's hidden number. Each win secures some extent, however losing ten points dunks the losers in sulfuric acid.

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Queen of Clubs

The next game takes dodgeball to the deadliest stage possible. Ann (Ayaka Miyoshi) and Kuina take part in this game which sees contributors of 1 staff throwing balls at the other as they attempt to run across a suspension bridge above a gloomy pit. What occurs in the event that they fall? Well, you'll be able to take an informed guess.

Jack of Clubs

Viewers catch a temporary glimpse of the Jack of Clubs recreation in Episode 7 and it isn't beautiful. Essentially, it kind of feels as though the recreation wholly focuses on mountain climbing an immensely tall rope, but with the added bonus of avid gamers being able to swing around and try to knock their competition to their deaths.

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Jack of Diamonds

We know very little about Jack of Diamonds, apart from that it was in short featured in Episode 7. It seems to be a amendment of a traditional sport of mahjong, however with a dangerous twist.

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King of Hearts

Another temporary function of Episode 7, the King of Hearts recreation seems to be as heart-pumping as one may well be. The major objective is to flee an elaborate concrete maze while what sounds like a perilous animal makes an attempt to trace and kill avid gamers sooner than they can make it out.

Queen of Hearts

Last however not at all least, the Queen of Hearts is taken on via Mira (Riisa Naka). Although it is supposed to be the most tricky, it is deceptively simple. All gamers should do is play her in 3 rounds of croquet. There aren't any laws mentioning that the challenger should win, they must merely not forfeit. Simple enough, proper? Well, Mira has plenty of tips up her sleeve that make this mundane activity so much harder than you would think.

Be positive to take a look at Alice in Borderland, streaming on Netflix now!

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