Bicycle Escape Map Game Card

Bicycle escape gaming card,**** original bicycle escape map gaming cardduring world war ii, the united states playing card company joined forces with american and british intelligence agencies to create a very special deck of cards

***** this deck was created specifically to help allied prisoners of war escape from german pow camps

***** this deck of cards has become known as a “map deck”

*****made by concealing maps of very secret escape routes between two layers of paper which make up all modern playing cards

***** these decks could be peeled to reveal hidden maps when submerged in water, allowing escapees to find their way to safety

****** due to the nature of the war and the subsequent prosecution of war crimes, map decks have been a closely guarded secret for many years after the war

***** the secrecy surrounding them was so great that no one knows how many were actually produced or how many survived