Tarot card games

Tarot card games are trick-taking games played with tarot decks, whose numbered trumps form a permanent suit that can outrank the ordinary suits.

Trick-taking game: A card game in which players contribute one card each to a trick, usually with the highest-ranked card winning. Tarot games use tricks as their basic unit of play.
Tarot deck: A 78-card deck comprising four suited sequences and a separate sequence of numbered trumps plus the Fool. Tarot games depend on this extra trump sequence, absent from ordinary decks.
Tarot in Italy: The historical use and development of tarot cards in Italy, where the earliest known tarot decks appeared in the fifteenth century. Tarot cards emerged in Italy before their spread into European gaming traditions.
Bridge (card game): A partnership trick-taking game played with a standard 52-card deck and a contract established through bidding. Bridge uses bidding and tricks but has no separate tarot trump sequence.
Trump (card games): A suit or card rank designated to outrank cards from other suits during play. The tarot trump suit can win tricks despite a lower printed rank.
Playing card suit: A category of playing cards sharing a common symbol and rank sequence. Tarot games combine four ordinary suits with a fifth, permanent trump suit.
Tarot in France: The historical development of tarot cards and their use in France, including the growth of French tarot as a card game. French rules became a major modern form of tarot play.
Skat: A German trick-taking game for three players, using a 32-card deck and contract-based play. Skat offers a contrasting European system of contracts without tarot's 78-card deck.
Tarot de Marseille: A historic pattern of tarot cards, with numbered trumps, four suits, and court cards. Its 78-card structure supplies the deck used in many games.
Tarot trumps: The numbered cards of a tarot deck that form a suit distinct from its four ordinary suits. They provide the persistent high-ranking suit around which the games are organized.

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