Duckhugger V-Blog #02: Tarot Gaming...

Here's the URL for those Japanese Tarot cards (made especially for playing games with them):
http://www.gamers-jp.com/japonbrand/games/tarotcard-j.html

Here's the site to order them from:
http://gsbanesto.ezstores.net/

Like I said, I'm still very new to all this but trying to get a good handle on playing games with Tarot cards so I can post some tutorial videos or such up here.

This site has some good info on playing games with Tarot:
http://www.pagat.com/tarot/

If any of you peeps out there live in or around Olympia and want to play Tarot with me sometime... let's set it up. Seems to me like a rather fun activity for bars and coffee houses (where many Olympians tend to spend their time).

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[bidou]

Are this cards for kids or... ? The french tarot cards are better.

[Duckhugger]

Are you talking about the Japanese ones? Yes, they are a little "basic" I suppose and the design on the French decks are much nicer. I will agree. I was showing those cards on the internet because I thought it was interesting to see Tarot marketed for use as a game rather than fortune telling in Japan. Something exciting to me.

[anonrt6]

We're not talking about modern playing decks here. We're talking about Tarot decks that were developed for the playing of a game before they were adopted as an occult tool. If you think I'm going only on research online, you're mistaken. There is a good book on the subject called "A History of Games Played With the Tarot Pack" by Michael Dummet. It's an expensive book, but last I checked... someone had uploaded a torrent of it over at thepiratebay dot org

[Oudler]

Conventional playing cards existed prior to Tarot cards. The Tarot came about as a variant of what was then a standard deck. And Duckhugger is correct in saying that the Tarot was first played as a card game and the divination uses came later.

[judith703]

サマーウォーズ見た外人が、花札にはまるような時代が来るのか(­ ﾟдﾟ )

[Oudler]

These Japanese cards do look a bit twee, like they are kiddie cards. I did not like the way the cards felt in my hands though. I do like the idea of uniting the trump imagry of the Italian decks with the suits of the French decks, and I've created my own deck based on that concept. For the best feel, I would recommend the Grimaud Premiere or the Piatnik DeLuxe.

[Duckhugger]

The deck itself is only found as early as the 15th century, and at that point it's only recorded use is for games! No documented examples of fortune telling use for Tarot exist before the 18th century! That's quite a gap!!

[Duckhugger]

Sorry, you're still not getting it. The historical evidence for any use of the tarot other than gaming in it's original form is pretty much non-existent hearsay! All the claims that Tarot is an "ancient divination tool" are made well AFTER the established evidence of Tarot created for purely game-playing purposes. There's simply no solid evidence in history for "ancient" origins of tarot.

[Kinkade9250]

Sorry, I may have worded that wrong..

Let me try again:

Tarot cards have been around for a long time, yes. And yes, games where played with tarot cards, but only after they where used for 'divination' purposes.

There is no question that card games,( much like modern ones) where played with tarot cards. My point was that modern decks where inspired by tarot decks. :)

[Kinkade9250]

Uhh..

Tarot inspired the modern playing card deck...

You have it backwards my friend.

I suggest you look over your sources which you researched from...

The internet has a lot of false info :|