Cartomancy using standard playing cards was the most popular form of
providing fortune-telling card readings in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
In English-speaking countries, except Tarot cards are more commonly used, however a standard deck of
Anglo-American bridge/poker playing cards (i.e., 52-card, four-suit set) can
also be used widely; the deck is often augmented
with jokers, and even with the blank card found in many packaged decks. In Europe, the 32-card piquet
playing-card deck is most typically used in oracle readings, although the 52 card deck can also be used. (A piquet deck can be
a 52-card deck with all of the 2s through the 6s removed. This leaves all of
the 7s through the 10s, the face cards, and the aces.)
Many others kind of oracle have been developed during two last
centuries. With the variety of the quantity of cards, the design, the through
and the theory inside, oracle is one important part of cartomancy, parallel with the Taromancy.