Tarot card games
![Hungarian statesmen playing tarokk in 1895, the preferred card game of the pre-communist era.[1]](/Images/godic/202502/15/Tarokkparti2255.jpg")
![French tarot being played.](/Images/godic/202502/15/Joueurs_de_tarot2255.JPG")
![Industrie und Glück trumps](/Images/godic/202502/15/Vitoria_-_Bibat_040a2255.jpg")
![Austrian-style 40-card Tarock hand: the Skys (Fool) as highest trump, trump 21 (the second highest), five other trumps, King, Queen, 1 ♥.](/Images/godic/202502/15/Tarockkarten_in_der_Hand_eines_Spielers2255.jpg")
Tarot card games are card games played with tarot decks. The basic rules first appeared in the manuscript of Martiano da Tortona, written before 1425. The games, known as "tarot", "tarock", "tarocco" and other spellings, are known in many variations, mostly cultural and regional.