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Kipper Cards

A 36-card German fortune-telling deck of everyday scenes — people, home, work, travel — read in tableaux.

PlannedRandom drawModern practice

A description for now. An interactive tool for this method is planned but not built yet.

Background

Practitioner sources describe the Kipper deck as a 19th-century German fortune-telling deck of 36 cards showing scenes of daily life. Its early publishing history is poorly documented.

How it works

Cards are laid in lines or a large tableau and read around the card representing the querent, with neighbouring cards describing people and events.

At a glance

Also called
Kipperkarten, Kipper deck
Traditions
German
Regions
Europe
You need
A question, A random draw
Price
Free

Sources

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