Tarot Draw

How to play

1. How do you draw a tarot card online here?: Hold a question in mind — there is no text box to fill in. Tap Shuffle at the bottom; all 78 cards are shuffled and the top twelve are laid face down in four columns of three. Tap one slot to pick it, watch it lift and outline, then tap Reveal to turn it over. Three taps from landing to a reading, usually under 30 seconds.
2. How do you read a past, present and future spread?: Switch the spread to three cards at the top, shuffle, then tap three slots. The order you tap is the order of the positions: first is past, second is present, third is future. Reveal only lights up once three are picked, and you turn them over one at a time. The summary lists all three one-line readings side by side.
3. How do you turn reversed cards on?: Open the settings gear in the top right and switch on Show reversals; it is off by default. The switch only decides whether the page reads the direction — it never changes the card, the direction or the deal code. Every card's direction is fixed by the deal code the moment you shuffle, so upright-only is a complete way to read, not a stripped-down one.
4. How do you share the same deal with a friend?: Tap Copy deal link on the summary screen; you get a URL carrying the 6-character deal code. When your friend opens it, the same twelve cards appear in the same directions — but which slot they pick is their own move, so the two of you end up with different cards. You can also just send the six characters and let them type it into the settings drawer.

Rules & variants

How the deck works: one deck of 78 cards — 22 major arcana from The Fool to The World, plus 56 minor arcana in four suits (Wands, Cups, Swords and Pentacles, each running Ace through Ten plus Page, Knight, Queen and King). Tapping Shuffle shuffles all 78 and lays the top twelve face down in a four-by-three grid. The page says exactly that; these are the top twelve, not a hand-picked selection. There is no winning, no score and no timer.

The two spreads and what the positions mean: a single card has no position — it is simply a prompt about right now. The three-card spread reads as past, present and future: what brought you here, what is actually at work at the moment, and where this heads if the current pace holds. The future position is deliberately written as a trend rather than a prediction, and today's choices can rewrite it. Spreads of four or more cards, including every ten-card layout, are not offered: ten cards cannot be laid out legibly on a phone in portrait.

Upright and reversed: each card carries a direction as well as a face. Upright reads the card's main line; reversed reads the same energy pointed the wrong way or not yet landed — the Two of Swords upright is being stuck between two workable options, reversed it is not choosing having already become the choice. The direction is fixed by the deal code at shuffle time and has nothing to do with which slot you pick. Show reversals only decides whether the page reads it, and it stays off by default.

Today's card versus drawing anytime: drawing anytime gives you a brand-new deal every shuffle, as often as you like. Today's card derives its seed from the calendar date in your own browser, so on any given day everyone sees the same twelve cards in the same directions, and once you turn a card over that day it is locked — come back later and you land straight on the same reading. That is what makes the word today mean something. Today's card is always a single card, and there are no streaks, no calendar history and no fortune score.

The deal code and what to do with it: every deal carries a 6-character code such as K7M3QP, drawn from an alphabet with I, L, O and U removed so it survives being copied by hand; case and hyphens do not matter on input. The code fully determines the deal: the same code produces the same 78-card order and the same 78 direction bits on any device. Copy deal link puts that code into a URL, and the settings drawer takes a typed code directly. Your last five draws are stored as codes only, on this device.

Two deliberately separate ways to play again: the main button, New question new deal, rolls a fresh deal code — a completely different deck order — and suits an ordinary next round. The secondary button, Pick again from this deal, keeps the code, the twelve cards and their directions exactly as they were and just lets you choose a different slot; that is for mis-taps, and for a group taking turns on one deal. For honesty, the anytime mode prints which pick this is from the current deal. Nothing is blocked, the count is simply visible.

House rules that need no extra features: (1) One deal for the table — three to six people share a deal code, each person picks a slot nobody has used, reads it, and passes the phone on; Pick again from this deal covers this entirely. (2) Blind relay — everyone picks without revealing, then you turn them over together, since the reveal step is one tap per card anyway. (3) Mirror draw — send the deal link to a friend so you both pick from the same twelve; same deck, different cards, instant conversation. (4) Shared daily — everyone draws today's card, which is identical site-wide, as a small morning ritual.

How to ask a question a card can actually answer: this is the only real skill here, and it sits outside the deck. Swap does he like me for what am I not paying attention to, and swap will this succeed for what is most likely being overlooked in how I am doing this. The first phrasing only accepts yes or no; the second can hold an observation. For a three-card spread, read the three separately and then tie them into one sentence — if they refuse to tie together, the question probably contained two questions.

Where the art and the readings come from: all 78 faces are drawn here as vector artwork — 22 individual symbols for the major arcana, forty number cards built by arranging four suit symbols by pip count, and sixteen court cards as figure silhouettes with a suit badge. Nothing is traced, copied or scanned from any published deck, and no deck brand, edition or author name appears anywhere. All 156 reading blocks are original and bound by a voice standard: no doom, no medical, legal or financial claims, and difficult cards written as an observation plus one small adjustable step.

A worked example: say the deal code is K7M3QP, single card, reversals off. Among the twelve laid out you tap slot 5, so what turns over is the fifth card of that shuffled deck, and its direction was already fixed by the code. Because reversals are off, the page reads the upright text — one line, three points, full meaning folded away. The attribution line reads: you picked slot 5, deal code K7M3QP, pick 1. Tap Pick again from this deal and choose slot 2 and you get the second card of the same deck, the code unchanged, the line now reading pick 2. Send that code to a friend and their twelve cards match yours exactly, while which slot they tap is up to them.

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