“Modern playing card games are so pervasive in almost every culture in the world that I think there is something special about standard playing cards themselves as a medium for emergent game ...

The royal figures on modern playing cards no more represent specific persons than do the kings and queens in chess sets. Last updated: 29 September 2007 Sources: Tilley, Roger.

“Modern playing card games are so pervasive in almost every culture in the world that I think there is something special about standard playing cards themselves as a medium for emergent game ...

A cousin of modern playing cards that dates back to the 15th century, the Tarot consists of four suites of numbered Minor Arcana cards and a Major Arcana of trumps depicting archetypal characters ...