Tarot history and culture quizzes

Tarot is shorter and more interesting than its legend. The cards were born in fifteenth-century Italy as a game for nobles, stayed a game for three hundred years and only in the late eighteenth century gained fame as a book of secrets. These quizzes cover the whole journey: the first hand-painted decks of Milan, the Tarot de Marseille, the French occultists, the Golden Dawn, and the Rider-Waite-Smith and Thoth decks.

Other quizzes look at tarot in culture: literature, film, painting, games and anime, plus the psychology of archetypes, the reader's glossary, common myths and a caring approach to readings. Every answer rests on established facts, and disputed dates are marked as disputed.

Begin with Where tarot came from, which sets out the main milestones. Then move on to the decks, from the Italian ones and Marseille to the 20th-century classics and Thoth, and keep the quizzes on books, film and painting for fun. Each run draws random questions from a larger pool, every answer comes with an explanation, and a flawless run earns Tayna keys.