Announcement - Playing Cards

[Moonbow]

We would like to open up this area of History & Iconography to include more discussions about Playing Cards and gaming with Regional decks. Although there are already some discussion on this topic, we feel that there is scope to expand this area of history further. The early decks were primarily used for gaming, and many meanings and methods (divination-wise) were derived from the early gaming rules. So this area will also welcome more about their history, gaming rules, the subtle differences among the playing cards, their regional patterns, etc. It would be very nice to see some imbedded images of historical playing cards including the transformation decks.

This will not be an area for reading with playing card decks as that is still being housed in the Oracles forum.

Any questions or suggestions, please PM Moonbow* and/or Bernice.

Thanks everyone.

[Moonbow]

A few threads to pique your interest:

The Devil and the Two of Hearts pt. 1

Talking about the GAME of Tarot

Overly complicated game rules?

What is the game "Scartino"

Origins of the Game of Tarot

Very old Czech/German cards

A little more tarot play in America in NY Times 1887

1340, playing cards in Bohemia

XVI Century "Art of Memory" about playing cards

Earliest Playing Cards

Playing Cards: The Russian Connection

Dutch Book, from 1517, contains Italian playing cards

Samuel Singer History of Playing Cards

Names on French playing cards

Cartomancy cards

Games of Four Directions (Chess & Playing cards)