Playing cards are cards made with cardboard that are decorated and printed with different drawings, shapes, colors and numbers, which have been used since ancient times to perform games as entertainment, they are called cards, decks, decks. There are several types of cards or table games and the most common are the Spanish, French or the very peculiar Egyptian cards.
From Egypt, China, India, Spain and from the most remote part of Europe from the east, it is said that in some of these regions the letters, their games and the way of reading them originated and were created, but according to history more Mystically speaking it is believed that they were created to be used for the act of divination, to know the future and its consequences, since many of them were representing the Gods in their battles with magical symbols, which opened portals to other worlds.
Since these ancient times, reading the future and games of chance have been considered a bad omen, on the one hand they considered acts of occult magic such as leading to unhealthy games, sometimes betting the lives of other people in games. In the year 1337 the friars of Marseilles were forbidden any game or use of these cards, since at that time a game called the page was known and they were related to card games.
At present, card games are very famous as a game of chance, having a great variety of them and an infinite number of ways to play them, such as poker, basket, trick, chinchón, stolen house or raba pilón, broom, solitaire or ladder, crazy eight, war, 21, rummy, good morning ladies, black Jack, bridge, brisca, sausage, tute, forty among an infinity that from houses to casinos play for fun and with the addictive benefit of monetary gain.
They are also still used for the esoteric, where the meaning of each of the cards is read in combination with the figures and their representations, along with a variation of the zodiacal tarot that predicts good fortune as possible future events.