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As the name implies, these cards depict the original 9 Beanie
babies: Chocolate, Cubbie, Flash, Legs, Patti, Pinchers, Splash,
Spot and Squealer. They are numbered 1 to 9 respectively. These
cards are often referred to as clear, plastic or acetate cards.
These cards come in four color variations: Red, Blue, Silver and
Gold, with Red being the most common and gold the rarest. All
of these cards are serial numbered. The odds of finding one of
these cards is about 1 in every 117 packs. Listed below are the
production runs of each card. Each card is marked on the front,
for example 1234/8840. To determine the color of the card, look
at the words "Original 9" in the top left corner. It
is the color of ths that determines the card color. You can also
check by looking at the numbers in the table below. 
There are 15 retired cards (numbered 10 through 24). The odds
of finding a retired card are 1 in every 7 packs. As with the
Original 9 cards, they come in the same four colors, Red, Blue,
Silver and Gold. There are 150 gold cards each, serial numbered
on the front. A few gold cards without numbers did escape. Known
cases for this include Teddy and Goldie. In the top right corner
of each retired card is a circle with Retired through it. It is
the color of this insignia that designates the color of the card.
There are 25 Birthday / Rookie cards (numbered 25 through 49).
The odds of finding a birthday / rookie card are 1 in every 2
packs. As with the previous 2 categories, the same colors can
be found with 150 gold of each type. Each card has the name of
the Beanie Baby on it and it is the color of this that determines
the card's color. However they can be a little confusing. On the
Red card, the red fades into gold, the blue fades into silver,
and the silver and gold cards have solid colors. Of these cards
Tabasco and Lizzy are the hard cards to find. 
There are 100 common cards (numbered 50 through 149). Not all
commons are common- in fact some of them are very hard to find.
The hardest to find are: 
Each pack of cards comes with one puzzle card. There are a total
of 8 puzzles: Winter Beanie Wonderland, Born to be Wild, Tropical
Heat Wave, Star Spangled Beanies, The Original Nine, The Faces
of Teddy, It's a Dog's life, and an unnamed puzzle with dogs on
one side and wildlife on the other. 
In order to get these slider cards, you had to buy by the sealed
box and not the pack. Each box contains one of these cards and
is about the same size as a box (5" x 71/2"). There are a total
of 8 different slider cards. With each card a black and white
picture is seen (same pictures as used in the puzzle cards). When
the slider is pulled out, the picture turns into full color. The
sliders are not numbered or named, but most of them follow along
with the puzzles. The unnamed puzzle is not represented and the
original 9 puzzle has been split into two sliders, the first with
Chocolate, Patti, Legs, Pinchers and Squealer which is referred
to as the Original 9 A slider and the second with Cubbie, Flash,
Splash and Spot, referred to as Original 9 B slider. 
Each pack also contains a checklist of the Series 1 cards. However,
it does not indicate which of the cards belong to which card group
and does not leave space for the different colors of them. There
is also a mistake in the checklist. It states that # 132 is Tank
without a shell, when in fact it is Tank, 7 lines no shell.
