1. If the person blocking an individual is being unreasonable, move on. Either forgiveness or currency gets a past any gatekeeper, regardless of shape, gender, race, culture, religion, or in this case, self-proclaimed bridge acumen. 2. What is a quarter worth anyway, people? 3. This is a card game, which normally is on printed on ~5 cm by ~3.5 cm protected layers of heavy card paper. Are we all going to let 52 heavy stock paper get in our way of enjoying a strategic game? I believe that would defeat game of life. Ask yourselves.