Cartomancy

Cartomancy is fortune-telling or divination using a deck of cards. Practitioners of cartomancy are generally known as cartomancers, card readers, or simply readers.

Cartomancy using standard playing cards was the most popular form of providing fortune-telling card readings in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.

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The standard 52-card deck is often augmented with jokers or even with the blank card found in many packaged decks.

In France, the 32-card piquet stripped deck is most typically used in cartomantic readings, although the 52 card deck can also be used.

(A piquet deck can be a 52-card deck with all of the 2s through the 6s removed. This leaves all of the 7s through the 10s, the face cards, and the aces.).