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'''Tarot''' is a card game.
The 78-card deck contains:
*four [[suit (cards)|suit]]s: depending on the region, either the Anglo-French hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs or the original [[suit (cards)|Latin suits]] of swords, batons, cups, and coins; numbered one through ten, plus four court cards—a jack, a knight, a queen, and a king;
*the twenty-one tarots, known in divination as the [[Major Arcana]], which function in the game as a permanent suit of [[Trump (cards)|trump]]s;
*the Fool, also known as the Excuse, an un-numbered card that in some variations excuses the player from following suit or playing a trump, and in others acts as the strongest trump.
==Typical rules of play:==
Play is typically counter-clockwise; the player to the right of the dealer plays to the first trick. If possible players must follow suit. If following suit is not possible a trump card must be played. The winner of each trick leads the next.
After the hand has been played, a score is taken based on the point values of the cards in the tricks each player has managed to capture.[http://pagat.com/tarot/counting.html counting cards]
For the purpose of the rules, the numbering of the trumps are the only thing that matters. The four Latin suits are replaced in many regions with the [[suit (cards)|French suits]] of hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades. Some variations of the game are played with a 54-card deck (5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 of hearts and diamonds and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 of spades and clubs are discarded).
Variations of the game are still played in [[France]], [[Germany]], [[Italy]], [[Switzerland]], [[Denmark]], and especially in the countries on the area of the former [[Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian]] monarchy.
The 78-card deck contains:
*four [[suit (cards)|suit]]s: depending on the region, either the Anglo-French hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs or the original [[suit (cards)|Latin suits]] of swords, batons, cups, and coins; numbered one through ten, plus four court cards—a jack, a knight, a queen, and a king;
*the twenty-one tarots, known in divination as the [[Major Arcana]], which function in the game as a permanent suit of [[Trump (cards)|trump]]s;
*the Fool, also known as the Excuse, an un-numbered card that in some variations excuses the player from following suit or playing a trump, and in others acts as the strongest trump.
==Typical rules of play:==
Play is typically counter-clockwise; the player to the right of the dealer plays to the first trick. If possible players must follow suit. If following suit is not possible a trump card must be played. The winner of each trick leads the next.
After the hand has been played, a score is taken based on the point values of the cards in the tricks each player has managed to capture.[http://pagat.com/tarot/counting.html counting cards]
For the purpose of the rules, the numbering of the trumps are the only thing that matters. The four Latin suits are replaced in many regions with the [[suit (cards)|French suits]] of hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades. Some variations of the game are played with a 54-card deck (5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 of hearts and diamonds and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 of spades and clubs are discarded).
Variations of the game are still played in [[France]], [[Germany]], [[Italy]], [[Switzerland]], [[Denmark]], and especially in the countries on the area of the former [[Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian]] monarchy.