French Tarot

Long before the emergence of their use in divination, the Tarot deck was used to play trick-taking games of many, many varieties. This app presents French Tarot in 3, 4, and 5 player variants. It’s really fun and useful. Each variant while having nearly identical rules has its own idiosyncrasies that you just need to play through in order to learn. 5 stars easily. The ads are a bit annoying, but there’s a paid version that’s ad-free if they bother you that much.

This game app is very well designed for single players, but I found two areas for the multiplayer mode a bit disappointing: 1. Cannot play with friends unless connected to the same WiFi. Would love to be able to invite friends physically far away and play together! 2. The card distributions are quite unfair, as most of the time (>75%) the AI players get hands good enough to slaughter the rest. I don’t know if this gets improved in the paid version, but based on feature descriptions the two seem to be the same. Would love to pay for a fairer game!

All cards in a tarot deck can be used for fortune telling. Which became a popular way of telling fortunes BECAUSE everyone at the time basically played cards. The Italians have a similar version using tarot cards. which is BECAUSE that’s what the most popular game of the day was called. Now, this is an excellent version that I’ve been playing for a while now. Aside from feeling stupid sometimes, 😉, it is so much fun. I’ve played others but they aren’t as pretty, or clean running. Play is smooth, and you can set options for beginner to pro. The training area is super helpful when learning new plays. Basically, everyone should give it a try!