Wikipedia Trails: Tarot to Piquet

I saw Tarot cards mentioned in the class Twitter stream and it talked about its history, which I was curious of.

Tarot Cards (Wikipedia)

Tarot: Tarot refers to the playing cards that you often see being used for fortune telling. They were originally made to be used for playing games (go figure), but gained popularity by being used in a form of divination called Tarotology.

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Tarotology: A type of cartomancy that involves Tarot cards in particular, as a way of obtaining knowledge about the past, present, and future by asking questions and revealing the cards.

Fortune Teller (Wikipedia)

Cartomancy: Divination using cards. What kind of cards are used depends on the country, with Tarot cards being most popular in English speaking countries and regular playing cards (Poker cards) being more popular elsewhere. In France, piquet cards are used.

Piquet Deck (Wikipedia)

Piquet: Piquet is a card game with 32 cards. It was developed in the 1500s and is pretty complex. Despite that, it's one of the oldest card games still played today.