Trionfi (blue back)

Trionfi: Tarot Playing Cards (Blue back design)

56 suit cards

21 trump cards

The Fool

This is an English language playing tarot, a deck of 78 playing cards designed for playing the tarot, tarock, and tarocchi games of continental Europe.

These cards are of my own design incorporating images of public domain 19th century European tarots.

The trump images used were derived from a deck originally published by Mühlemann & Walther of Hasle bei Burgdorf, Switzerland (1880s). This deck is related to the iconic Swiss 1jj Tarot but contains the original Popess and Pope cards.

I have edited these images to optimize cardplay in a manner similar to traditional Italian decks such as the Tarocco Piemontese. Some of the colors have been modified to make the trumps more similar in appearance to the plain suit cards.

The card images of the plain suits were sourced from a deck published by Conrad Ludwig Wüst of Frankfurt am Main, Germany (1860s). This deck is the ancestor of the Tarot Nouveau or Bourgeois Tarock; the deck commonly used today for the French Tarot card game. I have added English language corner indices.

Contrary to popular belief, tarot cards were not originally intended for predicting the future.

Tarot was made for card games which are enjoyed today in places such as France, Italy, Switzerland, and Central Europe.

Enclosed with each package is a reconstruction of the game of Trionfi; the 15th century game for which tarot cards were originally designed.

The rules for Talon: A Tarot Card Game,a modern game with an auction and modified card point values, is available for free download.

(Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played card games with the tarot!)

"All Tarot games are deep and subtle, and an ounce of play is worth a pound of book." David Parlett - A Dictionary of Card Games

"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?" Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Rules for a wide variety of Tarot games may be found here: BoardGameGeek

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