from Addison’s Guide to Sports and Games

Playing cards originated during the Age of Magic as a divination technique, and they are still used for that to this day. Cards originally were brown with black ink and only had twenty-two cards. Over the centuries, playing card decks multiplied into three arcana: black, white, and red.

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Types of Card Games

With the three arcana, many card games have been developed, and new variations are forever appearing (see list below.)

• Trick Taking
• Outplaying
• Adding
• Fishing
• Matching
• Exchanging
• Showdown
• Banking
• Role Playing
• Patience
  

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Card Emblem Numbers

Each card in an arcana has emblematic picture and are numbered 0 through 21 (see list below.)

0. The Fool
1. The Magician
2. The High Priestess
3. The Empress
4. The Emperor
5. The Hierophant
6. The Lovers
7. The Chariot
8. Strength
9. The Hermit
10. Wheel of Fortune
11. Justice
12. The Hanged Man
13. Death
14. Temperance
15. The Devil
16. The Tower
17. The Star
18. The Moon
19. The Sun
20. Judgement
21. The World

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The featured image is Wren’s fortune reading in The Enchanted Bird.