new game: identify the card snippet (picture)

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 15 Jul 2003, and now archived in the Forum Library.

firemaiden	15 Jul 2003
hahahah So tell me: what card is this from???

Ruby Red Slippers	15 Jul 2003
The Moon...... Ruby Red Slippers

firemaiden	15 Jul 2003
It looks like the Moon doesn't it! ahahahahahahahahah That is the correct wrong answer. I mean, that it the wrong answer that I was hoping for. :D :D :D So what card is this little snippet really from?

Ruby Red Slippers	15 Jul 2003
Firemaiden... so glad to oblige....:D Too tired to think, going to bed :) Ruby Red Slippers

firemaiden	15 Jul 2003
oh maaaaaaaaaan! no fair. We just started having fun! need hint? You know this card!

Rusty Neon	15 Jul 2003
XIII from the RWS deck

firemaiden	15 Jul 2003
Bing-bing-bing-bing-bing-bing-BINGO!!!!

Rusty Neon	15 Jul 2003
(bows) :) Thanks for the quiz, firemaiden !

Jeannette	16 Jul 2003
Congrats, Rusy Neon (you're good at these games!) Fun game, firemaiden. Sorry I didn't get a chance to guess (Rusty's too fast!). Let's do it again sometime! -- Jeannette http://www.tarotgarden.com

Melvis	16 Jul 2003
Excellent game, Firemaiden! I fell for your 'fool's Moon' hook, line, and sinker! :D I thought, "Well, that's WAY too easy. I expected more from Firemaiden!" ;) Silly me! Peace, Melvis :TSTRE

firemaiden	16 Jul 2003
Quote: Originally posted by Melvis Silly me! Indeed! MUHAHAHAHAHAH Okay, Melvis: here's another one. What am I? and what (RWS) card am I from?

Jeannette	16 Jul 2003
Oooo, oooo! I know! I know! Can I answer the question, or do I have to defer to give Melvis the first shot at it? -- Jeannette http://www.tarotgarden.com

Melvis	16 Jul 2003
Thanks for waiting for me Jeannette and/or Lori...that was nice! :D But I don't know if I'll get it, so you can probably answer it correctly after I flub it! My first thought is The World, but that would be too obvious (???) so I'm going to say The Wheel of Fortune. Peace, Melvis :TSTRE

Jeannette	16 Jul 2003
Thanks, Melvis -- you're too kind! The card is... the King of Swords! Whee! :D (Confession: my 8-year-old son helped point me in the right direction.) :| -- Jeannette http://www.tarotgarden.com

firemaiden	16 Jul 2003
lol, lol, lol, yes indeed it is from the king of swords. Congratulations Jeanette and/or Lori! (sorry Melvis) What on earth do you think it represents? Doesn't this look rather playful and joyful to be decorating the Sword King's throne?

Jeannette	16 Jul 2003
Actually, firemaiden, I'd tend to describe the little ladies (I presume) as "wistful-looking." Whee-fun! Let's do it again! Hee hee! -- Jeannette http://www.tarotgarden.com

firemaiden	17 Jul 2003
Okay here's another one :D :D :D

Jeannette	17 Jul 2003
That's got to be the Two of Wands -- but where are you getting those scans? (Or, alternatively, what deck are you scanning?) That pic shows more detail than I could get out of a scan of my personal RWS cards. -- Jeannette http://www.tarotgarden.com

firemaiden	17 Jul 2003
Yessiree, its the two of wands! and doesn't that look like a face? (Well, I do see faces everywhere, but to me, it looks like the crone again) I am using the Universal Waite deck. If I scan only the detail and not the rest of the card at, say 600 dpi, it will give me a fair amount of detail. Its called " phun with photoshop" . I did the same thing to some old family photos in black and white -- photos of relatives I never met, and photos of my grandparents when they were in their twenties, etc. The results were astounding. The old black and white photographs were a very high quality and yielded amazing secrets when being enlarged via scanner. I really ought to be doing this exercise with the original, not the universal waite, it would have more legitimacy, but whatever, here the colours are fun :D

Jeannette	17 Jul 2003
firemaiden: Duh on me! I realized not long after I made my last post that you'd probably used one of the recolored RWS variants. That's very interesting about how the 600 dpi scans brings out so much details in old photographs as well as tarot cards! Now, for a real challenge, I suppose you could try some pix from the borders of the Diamond Tarot, and see who could identify the card from those -- LOL! }) Thanks again for a fun game! -- Jeannette http://www.tarotgarden.com

Macavity	17 Jul 2003
Since not everyone "has the technology", perhaps there shouldn't be a winner, but I'd be interested to see what folk make of this. It might be quite EASY for some of you! :laugh: Macavity P.S. Lateral thinking rather than deck searching seems appropriate!

Hedera	17 Jul 2003
Looks like something from the Ator tarot? Or are we still on RWS and -clones?

Jeannette	17 Jul 2003
Macavity: I'm not sure what the question is. Maybe the point of the exercise is to figure out the question? If so, how very "zen" of you. :D -- Jeannette http://www.tarotgarden.com (Ah, well -- what do I make of that? well, I can make a hat, or a brooch, or a pteredactyl...) (...Proud member of the ORS -- Obscure Reference Society.)

firemaiden	17 Jul 2003
...it could be a button, she offered hopefully.

Macavity	17 Jul 2003
"He only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases?" :D I should perhaps have added: Deck? Card? I have seen a lot of references to this deck recently here, so some of you have been looking at precisely these blobs - and recently too :P That said, I might have been a bit "ambitious" on this one. Sorry! }) Macav.

Hedera	17 Jul 2003
Mmm, perhaps it is one of the Hanged Man's buttons, from the Marseilles (Camoin?) deck? Just taking a flying leap in the dark here....

Macavity	17 Jul 2003
Close! There now - You see? You are just a few (sic) hairs-breadths away... :D The colour may not be 100% accurate... Macav.

Hedera	17 Jul 2003
Quote: The colour may not be 100% accurate... Aaarrrgh! ;)

Rusty Neon	17 Jul 2003
I don't want to lose my 1 for 1 record, but here it goes .... Perhaps it's one of the yellow blobs from the Tower card from a Tarot de Marseille deck, possibly the Jodo-Camoin. Sticking my neck out further, perhaps it's the first yellow blob, on the left hand side of the card, below the crown.

Macavity	18 Jul 2003
What can I say but .... Yes, right on all counts! I won't haegl(?) over which particular blob it was ;) Macav.

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