'57 Cards' are available from as a high quality 100% plastic deck. Alternatively, Rook can be played with a deck of '57 Cards', which have similar cards in four colours, but the 57th card shows a flower rather than a bird. Or Deluxe Rook cards can be ordered from. Rook cards are made by Parker Brothers / Hasbro and by Winning moves and Rook The 57th card is the rook card, which carries a picture of the bird. In each suit the cards are numbered from 1 to 14. There are four suits coloured black, red, green and yellow. The games are popular in Eastern Kentucky, in the Mennonite communities of Southern Ontario (near Elmira / Waterloo), Manitoba, Pennsylvania and Ohio, and probably also in other parts of North America.
Rook is the name of a group of games and of the special deck of cards for the game which was introduced by Parker Brothers in 1906.
