Tarot card games of the same length, and they were invented not for occult purposes but purely for gaming. In 1781, Court de Gébelin published an essay associating the cards with ancient wisdom, the earliest record of this idea, subsequently debunked by Dummett. The cards have since been used for cartomancy and divination. Dummett classified Tarot games into three distinct types: Tarocchi (Italian, singular "Tarocco"), and similar names in other languages, is a specific form of playing card deck used for different trick-taking games. An earlier name of the game "Trionfi" is first recorded in the diary of Giusto Giusti in September 1440
Suit (cards) value. Tarot decks have a dedicated trump suit. Whist-style rules generally preclude the necessity of determining which of two cards of different suits has higher rank, because a card played on a card of a different suit either automatically wins or automatically loses depending on whether the new card is a trump. However, some card games also need to define relative suit rank. An example of this is in auction games such as bridge, where if one player wishes to bid to make some number of heart tricks and another to make the same number of diamond tricks, there must