Each of the clues leads to a phrase beginning with the name of a card, given in order from ace to king:
- Jim Carrey role: ACE Ventura
- Opinion: TWO cents
- Nursery rhyme characters: THREE blind mice
- Schoolyard game: FOUR square
- Chinese seasoning: FIVE spice
- Amusement park: SIX Flags
- What you might sail: SEVEN seas
- Beatles hit: EIGHT Days a Week
- What a cat has allegedly: NINE lives
- Religious rules: TEN Commandments
- Personification of winter: JACK Frost
- Rapper and actress: QUEEN Latifah
- The Jungle Book character: KING Louie
The cards given with each clue are the length of the answers, not counting the card names. This allows solvers to create a cipher key based on the answers. For example, the first row of cards spells out VENTURA, so the ace of diamonds must represent V, the two of clubs is E, etc.
Applying this cipher to the unclued cards at the bottom spells out the phrase A TWO SLANGILY. A slang term for two, used most commonly when referring to cards, is DEUCE.