Sam's Memory Shed

Value	Conversion	Reason
1 (ace in a deck of cards)	T or D	T and D have a single vertical line.
2	N	N has two vertical lines.
3	M	M has three vertical lines.
4	R	R is the fourth letter in the word ‘four’.
5	L	You’ve got five fingers on each hand. Hold up your left hand with your thumb sticking out and you’ll see an ‘L’.
6	J or ‘SH’ or soft ‘G’ sound	A 6, mirrored and extravagant, looks a bit like a J. The ‘sh’ sound (“sheep”) and the soft ‘g’ sound (“gym”) is phonetically similar to a ‘j’ sound.
7	K or hard ‘C’ sound	The K, turned 90 degrees to the right, contains a 7 on the left and a mirrored 7 on the right.
8	F	Imagine a handwritten, lower case ‘f’; joining the letter at the corners creates a character similar to an 8.
9	B or P	A 9 turned over is a lower case ‘b’; a 9 mirrored is a ‘p’.
0 (10 in a deck of cards)	S or Z	Z is the first letter in the word ‘zero’. The ‘s’ sound is phonetically similar to a ‘z’ sound.
Jack	H	Imagine the Jack character as a ‘Hack’ (jobbing writer or Victorian surgeon) or a computer ‘Hacker’. Both rhyme with ‘Jack’. (Picture below)
Queen	W	The Queen is a Woman, or you could imagine her as secretly a Witch. (Picture below)
King	Y	As a man the King has a Y chromosome, or you could imagine him as an absolute Yob. (Picture below)

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