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About This Game

Before tarot told fortunes, it was a game.

Milan, 1445. At the court of Duke Filippo Maria Visconti, painters gild cards for a new game — trionfi, the game of triumphs, the ancestor of every tarot game played today. Take a seat at the duke's table and play it.

A deck that survived nearly six centuries

The cards are the Cary-Yale Visconti tarocchi, one of the oldest tarot decks in the world, kept at the Beinecke Library of Yale University. The surviving cards come from scans of the originals. The lost ones are modern reconstructions after related decks of the time, made with AI and marked as such in the game.

Rules rebuilt from the sources

No one wrote down the rules of trionfi in the 1440s. The game rebuilds them from the earliest records — a sermon from around 1500, later rule books from Milan and Piedmont, and the work of historians of playing cards — and its rule book shows where they come from.

From a first duel to trionfi

Start with a quick duel that teaches the deck, then play trionfi itself — the game of triumphs, reconstructed from the sources.

Opponents from Pisanello's medals

Play against lords of the court whose faces come from Pisanello's medals of the 1440s — Ludovico Gonzaga, Sigismondo Malatesta, Francesco Sforza and the duke himself — from easy to master.

A museum at the table

Every card, face and object in the hall has its own page: what it is, where it comes from, what is original and what is reconstructed.

Learn as you play

A guided first hand teaches the rules step by step, and every trick tells you why it was won.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Pre-generated content (made during development; nothing is generated while you play):
- Cards: 16 of the 78 cards (13 trumps, the Fool, the King of Batons and the Queen of Cups) are lost from the Cary-Yale Visconti deck. We reconstructed them with generative AI after the iconography of related 15th-century decks. The game's museum marks each of them as an AI reconstruction; the other cards come from scans of the originals (Beinecke Library, Yale University, open access).
- Hall and objects: the wall painting, hearth, carpet, tablecloth, seal, writing box, hourglass, books, brass plate, purse, jeton and bone plaque are AI-made images after 15th-century museum models, credited in the game as reconstructions, not genuine objects.
- One opponent portrait, the medal of Sigismondo Malatesta, is an AI reconstruction after Pisanello's medal of 1445.
- Text: the English text was translated from our Russian original with AI.
- Code: the game's code was written with AI assistance under our direction and review.
Live-generated content: none.