Tarot Deck Games

[Macavity]

Since I saw this reference in Kate Warwick-Smith's book on court cards:

http://www.pagat.com/tarot/index.html

Tarot games originated in Italy in the early 15th century. They are still played in a number of European countries, namely: Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland. Each of these countries has its own rather different version(s) of the game...

A lot of reading - but seems interesting. I had indeed wondered about such things!

Macavity

P.S. Perhaps of more typical interest here... but feel free to move elsewhere!

 

[Huck]

links to the playing aspects of Tarot

Jim Wickson has set up recently a group for people, who are interested in the aspects of Tarot as a real play. Also he gathered a lot of useful links, I published them with his permission in one of the trionfi.com corners:

http://trionfi.com/0/p/71/

There is also a way shown how to reach his group.

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edited 2009: Link update