![]() The reverse side of the card is often covered with a pattern that will make it difficult for players to look through the translucent material to read other people's cards or to identify cards by minor scratches or marks on their backs. Asia, too, has regional cards such as the Japanese hanafuda. Customised Tarot card decks are also used for divination including tarot card reading and cartomancy. ![]() Tarot cards (also known locally as Tarocks or tarocchi) are an old genre of playing card that is still very popular in France, central and Eastern Europe and Italy. However, many countries use other, traditional types of playing card, including those that are German, Italian, Spanish and Swiss-suited. ![]() The most common type of playing card in the West is the French-suited, standard 52-card pack, of which the most widespread design is the English pattern, followed by the Belgian-Genoese pattern. Card used for playing many card games Hand of French-suited cards Tarot playing cards from Austria Suit of Bells from a Bavarian pack ![]()
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