gwern comments on Less Wrong: Open Thread, September 2010 - Less Wrong
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If you really can only distinguish those 255 colors, then you could associate each color with a single unique byte, and a sequence of n cards becomes a single bitstring with n*8 bits in it. For additional flavor, add some sort of compression.
This is so elementary that I must be misunderstanding you somehow.