From: "Philippe Verdy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Wow! It's fun... > A suggestion for playaing cards: why not including the "Tarots"? > I mean in French the 4 "Cavaliers" figures, the 18 "Atouts", and the "Excuse" > (which is not exactly a Joker); sorry I don't have their English names. > There are lots of books discussing strategies for "Tarots", which is a popular > card game at least in France and in Northern Italy, with official competitions. > Their exact representation may differ between the modern version and the Old > Tarot of Marseille (the Death, the Hangged man, The Fool, The Judgement, The > Emperor...), and other variants (Russian Tarot of St-Petersburg, Renassance, > Palladini, or the classic Rider Waite Tarot...), but their difference is mostly > graphic.
May be this page on beautiful Celtic Tarots may interest you... http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/celtic.shtml
