Talk:Tarot card games

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[edit] Reference to symbols in cards only for game

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Obviously, someone replaced the picture referenced in this paragraph in "Tarocchi as Game (mostly as Tarot or Tarock)". Whether this is merged into the other article or not, this should be fixed.199.46.200.232 16:42, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out. The image referred to is the one at the top of the page: all that had happened was that the article got much longer, so the reference was a long way away from the picture. I've changed it to "at the top of the page". —Blotwell 09:25, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tarot Family of card games

• I support an introductory page with all of the tarot family of card games listed. Ideally this should be under tarot, but there you run into the conflict with the occultists. The name in the English language for the family of card games is Tarot, and since this is the English version of Wikipedia, the term in English should be the prefered one. In other languages it is Tarock, Taraut, Tarocco (Tarocchi), etc. They are all related trick-taking card games with a common origin. That is why they are all included in Michael Dummett's book The Game of Tarot . They do not use identical cards of course. That is because of divergences in playing card fashions and suit signs in each region. In german speaking areas of Switzerland, they use the 1JJ Tarot pack with Italian suit signs. In Sicily, they use the unique Tarocco Siciliano pack. There are also Tarocco Piedmontese, Tarocco Bolognese, and other packs from Milan, etc. There are at least three distinct versions of the Austrian-style Tarock pack. Then there are the French tarot versions with the arabic numerals on the top. These are all tarot playing cards, and are used to play related games. The question is, why are Tarock and Tarocchi on the same page, while French Tarot is on another? Tarock and French Tarot have french suit symbols, while Tarocco uses Italian suit signs. There should be one introductory article for the family of tarot games (similar to the presentation in the Tarocchi article), then individual main articles on each regional variation (with cards used, style of play, regional variations, etc.). This is what is done with other cards games such as Rummy, where there are many variations and regional games. Most of the Rummy family of games are listed in a special section of the article. I think that Tarot (game) should be the general page, and perhaps a special page created for "French Tarot", Tarocco (Tarrochi), Troccas (Swiss), Austrian-style Tarock, and Minchiate. The problem with all this evidently arises due to the unique situation of one family of card games having varying playing card standards in various regions. -- Parsa 21:52, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Well, it might be good for "Tarocchi" to re-direct to "Tarot family of card games" as this appears to be an introductory article on the subject and for "Tarot (game)" to re-direct to "French Tarot" as it is the regional game played in France. I very much agree with this approach, for each regional variant to have its own page. I have started the English language "Königrufen" article for the popular Austrian game. Smiloid 23:50, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tarot card games

I've re-directed to better indicate it's contents. Smiloid 22:06, 7 April 2007 (UTC)