Playing cards history |History of playing cards

First recorded use of playing cards is from 1371 in Spain. Tarot games first played in Italy 1430's.Poch card game, ancestor to Rummy Royale (circa 1440). Standard card suits in France circa 1480  

• hearts        

• clubs       

• spades                                                                                           
• diamonds   
  

Edmund Hoyle (1672 - 1769) writes a series of books (“Short Treatise”) on card and board games of the era (the best known ones were his rules for Whist and backgammon). Cards used for Fortune-telling (Cartomancy) first documented in 1781 in “Le Monde Primitif” by Antoine Court de Gébelin.During the 19th Century AD, Bridge develops from earlier games.


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