Other different games claimed the name without any use of Tarocchi cards. The name Trionfi developed later as a general term for trick-taking games ( Triomphe in French, Trumpfen in German and Trump in English), although it has almost completely disappeared in its original function as deck name. The poet Francesco Berni still mocked on this word in his Capitolo del Gioco della Primiera written in 1526.
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The names Tarocco, Tarocchi and Tarot developed in later times beside different writing forms. The name Tarochi was first used in Ferrara June 1505, the name Taraux appeared in Avignon in December of the same year. An earlier name of the game Trionfi is first recorded in the diary of Giusto Giusti in September 1440 (in other early documents also ludus triumphorum or similar ). Tarocchi (Italian, singular Tarocco), and similar names in other languages, is a specific form of playing card deck used for different trick-taking games. The Tarocco Bolognese is used for Tarocchini. The cards of the special suit in these games are variously called tarocks, tarocs, taroks, tarocchi or tarots. Tarot games have never spread to the British Isles or the Iberian Peninsula. Italy, the home of Tarot, remains a stronghold, and games of the Tarot family are also played in Hungary, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Switzerland, Denmark, south Germany and south Poland. In Austria, Tarock games, especially Königrufen, have become widespread and there are several major national and international tournaments each year. Tarot games are increasingly popular in Europe, especially in France where French Tarot is the second most popular card game after Belote. As a result, tarot cards have since been used for cartomancy and divination as well as gaming, although nowadays fortune-tellers tend to use specially-developed tarot decks rather than those used for games.
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In 1781, Court de Gébelin published an essay associating the cards with ancient wisdom, the earliest record of this idea, subsequently debunked by Dummett. Tarot decks did not precede decks having four suits of the same length, and they were invented not for occult purposes but purely for gaming. More recent tarot games borrowed features from other games like bidding from Ombre and winning the last trick with the lowest trump from Trappola. Tarot games may have introduced the concept of trumps to card games.
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They are characterised by the rule that a player who cannot follow to a trick with a card of the suit led must play a trump to the trick if possible. They are played with decks having four ordinary suits, and one additional, longer suit of tarots, which are always trumps.
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Tarot games originated in Italy, and spread to most parts of Europe, notable exceptions being the British Isles, the Iberian peninsula, and the Balkans. The games are known in many variations, mostly cultural and regional. The basic rules first appeared in the manuscript of Martiano da Tortona, written before 1425. The games and decks which English-speakers call by the French name Tarot are called Tarocchi in the original Italian, Tarock in German and various similar words in other languages. Tarot games are card games played with tarot decks, that is, decks with numbered permanent trumps parallel to the suit cards. Hungarian statesmen playing tarokk in 1895, the preferred card game of the pre-communist era.