Mini vs. Pocket Rider Waite???

Hi,

I’m confused, I have always read with what I refer to as the Mini Rider Waite. Now I am seeing Pocket Rider Waite…is this the same deck?

Thanks in advance

You can always check the www.aeclectic.net site for a better description but my understanding is that there are pocket editions of the rider-waite deck that are just slightly smaller in height and width than a deck of standard playing cards, and there is a mini-deck that is about the size of a postage stamp. I believe you'll often see the distinction between the sizes explained more or less this way, no matter what label the publisher gives the deck.


ETA: I'll probably be corrected on the above. That's what I've gleaned from reading the threads over the past several years.

Also, U.S. Games Systems puts out a Tiny Tarot, which is the postage stamp-sized deck (on a keychain!).

There are several sizes of the Rider Waite. There's the great big over-sized one, the regular sized one, the pocket one, a smaller one than that, and then there's the little tiny "smallest Tarot in the world." That's five sizes that I've seen and owned.

Thank you...I have always used the mini, I am going to get the pocket size and compare them............thanks again

The pocket size is about the same size as the Hanson-Roberts, Vanessa, or Halloween in a Tin.

You can measure yours and then compare the size to the pocket size listed online, that will be much easier also avoids getting duplicate copies.

Just see this!

http://grimoire.blog.ocn.ne.jp/doll/files/RWSsize.jpg

Roppo..that explained everything...i want the pocket and I have never owned the large size either...thanks everyone...

I got the pocket size RWS included in the US Games "The Complete Tarot Kit". I wondered how they managed to make the two decks - the RWS and the Thoth in the same size, as they have different proportion (the Thoth is wider than the RWS with the same height). Then I noticed that the RWS deck's height is a bit "compressed" to get the proportion. This can be seen especially in the cards with big round elements - Wheel of Fortune, the Moon, the Sun - they are not perfect round, rather slightly oval. I am not sure if the separately sold pocket size edition is the same included in the kit. This is a bit displeasing though.

IrenaB said:

......Then I noticed that the RWS deck's height is a bit "compressed" to get the proportion. This can be seen especially in the cards with big round elements - Wheel of Fortune, the Moon, the Sun - they are not perfect round, rather slightly oval......

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The standard pocket edition is that way too.