ZINA + JAN ZOŃ CARDS.
In a wonderful trick of beautiful mnemonic compression wizardry
, a combination of ZINA and Jan Zoń enables you to store 4 cards with two images (not two cards to one image!!). You can read more about the Jan Zoń method here.
Using this, a sequence of 3 of spades, queen of hearts, 4 of clubs, and jack of hearts becomes SEKE MOIKWEJOI by reading the suits first. The problem with this is that you need at least 10,000 images if I am thinking right and it may not be advisable to always form an on-spot compression. (I believe that two solid two sound images beats a four sound image formed on the spot).
In a method more true to Jan Zoń, we can instead apply three images for the four cards. So a sequence of 4 of diamonds, king of clubs, 6 of spades and 5 of hearts becomes the three images: DOSE HOIKOI CHI, (Pronounced dough say hoikoi chi), just for clarity the ‘ch’ sound is the one in chip.
If you already have a 2-digit system, you just need to add 69 more images for values and 16 ZINA images for suits. A lot fewer images than all the previously proposed methods.
Any thoughts as to how to improve this?
Credits to @zonjan of course.