tarok
Back with another week of words learned from Words With Friends, or WTF WWF 3, this time focusing on K words:
tarok or taroc or tarock (tuh-ROK) - n., a card game played with either 32, 40, 52, or 56 cards in four suits plus 22 tarot cards as trumps.
Dating back to the 15th century -- the tarot deck having being originally developed for gaming, not divination -- and still played in variations mainly in central Europe. Some summaries of various rules can be found here. Some Hungarian politicians playing tarokk:
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Directly from Italian tarocco, which is also the ancestor of tarot only without the sound changes that happen when you get passed through French.
---L.
tarok or taroc or tarock (tuh-ROK) - n., a card game played with either 32, 40, 52, or 56 cards in four suits plus 22 tarot cards as trumps.
Dating back to the 15th century -- the tarot deck having being originally developed for gaming, not divination -- and still played in variations mainly in central Europe. Some summaries of various rules can be found here. Some Hungarian politicians playing tarokk:
Thanks, WikiMedia!
Directly from Italian tarocco, which is also the ancestor of tarot only without the sound changes that happen when you get passed through French.
---L.