What on earth is tarot?
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Originally, the tarot cards were an “expansion pack” of sorts that you would add to an ordinary deck of cards to play certain games. E.g. the game of French Tarot is played using a 78-card deck, with 56 ordinary cards (the French play with an additional “knight” rank between jack and queen), 21 tarot cards which act as trumps, and one “fool,” which is like a joker.
Cartomancy, or using decks of cards for fortune-telling or divination, predates the tarot deck, but these days in the English-speaking world the two are virtually synonymous.
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