Trull (cards) Trull (cards) The trull is a trio of three special trump cards used in Tarock games in Austria and other countries that have a much higher card value than the other trumps. The individual cards are known as trull cards ("Trullstücke"). The word "trull" is derived from the French "tous les trois" which means "all three". In spite of its French roots the term is not common in the game of French tarot, where the trull cards are called "les bouts" ("butts") or, in earlier times, "les oudlers", which has no other meaning. The games of the tarot (French) or
Trionfi (cards) which offers details about the deck and a cursory explanation of how it is played. It likely had a total of 60 cards (four kings, forty pip cards and sixteen trumps). The forty-four plain-suited cards used birds as suit signs and the trumps presented sixteen Roman gods. In two suits, the pip cards are in reverse order as in many of the oldest card games. Two decks from June 1457 seem to relate to a visit at Ferrara of the young Milanese heir of the dukedom Galeazzo Maria Sforza in July/August 1457. Each deck consisted of 70 cards — the