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The Rider–Waite Tarot is a widely popular deck for tarot card reading, [ 1][ 2] first published by the Rider Company in 1909, based on the instructions of academic and mystic A. E. Waite and illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith, both members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Also known as the Waite–Smith, [ 3] Rider–Waite–Smith ...
A standard 52-card French-suited deck comprises 13 ranks in each of the four suits: clubs ( ♣ ), diamonds ( ♦ ), hearts ( ♥) and spades ( ♠ ). Each suit includes three court cards (face cards), King, Queen and Jack, with reversible (i.e. double headed) images. Each suit also includes ten numeral cards or pip cards, from one (Ace) to ten.
The Unicode for playing cards provide symbols for three Jokers: red, black, and white. Many decks do not provide the Joker with a corner index symbol; of those that do, the most common is a solid star (as is the case with Bee cards). It is also common for decks to simply display the word "JOKER" in the corner.
This list of playing card nicknames shows the nicknames of playing cards in a standard 52-card pack. Some are generic while some are specific to certain card games; others are specific to patterns, such as the courts of French playing cards for example, which often bear traditional names.
Sola Busca tarot. The Queen of Batons ("PALAS") from the Sola-Busca Tarot Deck, now in the Brera Museum. The Sola Busca tarot is the earliest completely extant example of a 78-card tarot deck. It is also the earliest tarot deck in which all the plain suit cards are illustrated [1] [2] and it is also the earliest tarot deck in which the trump ...
In playing cards, a suit is one of the categories into which the cards of a deck are divided. Most often, each card bears one of several pips (symbols) showing to which suit it belongs; the suit may alternatively or additionally be indicated by the color printed on the card. The rank for each card is determined by the number of pips on it ...
The B.O.T.A. tarot deck, created by Parke and Paul Foster Case, differs most significantly from nearly all other modern decks created since the Waite-Smith deck because the images for the Major Arcana and court cards appear as black and white line drawings rather than paintings and the “pip” or Minor Arcana cards (also black line drawings) have repeating suit-based images for pentacles ...
Spades () ( French: Pique) is one of the four playing card suits in the standard French-suited playing cards. It has the same shape as the leaf symbol in German-suited playing cards but its appearance is more akin to that of an upside down black heart with a stalk at its base. It symbolises the pike or halberd, two medieval weapons, but is ...