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U.S. Games Systems, Inc. (USGS) is a publisher of playing cards, tarot cards, and games located in Stamford, Connecticut. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Founded in 1968 by Stuart R. Kaplan, it has published hundreds of different card sets, [ 2 ] and about 20 new titles are released annually.
Tarot games are increasingly popular in Europe, [20] [21] [22] especially in France where French tarot is the second most popular card game after Belote. [23] In Austria, Tarock games, especially Königrufen, have become widespread and there are several major national and international tournaments each year. Italy, the home of tarot, remains a ...
In the occult tradition, tarot cards are referred to as "arcana", with the Fool and 21 trumps being termed the Major Arcana and the suit cards the Minor Arcana, [38] terms not used by players of tarot card games. The 78-card tarot deck used by esotericists has two distinct parts: The Major Arcana (greater secrets) consists of 22 cards without ...
Le Fou (The Fool) from a Cartes de Suisse pack. The “Cartes de Suisses” is a name sometimes given to an 18th-century standard pattern of Tarot playing cards that were initially produced in Rouen, and later in the Austrian Netherlands as well as in the Prince-Bishopric of Liège, [1] now both part of Belgium.
The 78-card Tarot Nouveau deck is the most widely used set for Tarot card games in France, Belgium, Denmark, and parts of Switzerland. A full set contains the standard 52 cards plus a Knight face card for each suit ranking between the queen and jack. Aces are marked with "1" and are the lowest ranked cards.
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Tarocchini can be played with a 78-card Tarot deck (where the 2–5 pip cards in each suit have been removed), though normally, a special Tarot deck, the Tarocco Bolognese is used. The trump cards have a unique ordering where the second to fifth trumps are known collectively as the Moretti (Moors) and are of equal rank (the last one played is ...
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