The project aims at making historical playing cards playable again by means of the well-known solitaire card game “Freecell” which has been recoded for the purpose.

Historical Tarot Freecell 1.0 stable
Historical Tarot Freecell 1.1 dev

Tarot Freecell is a fully playable solitaire card game coded in HTML 5. It offers a random setup mode, reset and undo options, and an autoplay function when the current game has been won. The game features a historical 78-card deck used for card games and divination. The cards were printed in the 1880s by J. Müller & Cie., Schaffhausen, Switzerland.

The cards are not reversible and use Roman numeral indexing. The lack of modern features like reversibility and Arabic numerals gradually made the deck unpopular. Due to the lack of corner indices, a central property of modern playing cards, the card offset is significantly larger than in modern computer adaptations.

2015/02/28 v1.0: Fullscreen option for toggling browser fullscreen mode
2015/02/28 v1.1: Help option offering modern suit and value indices in the upper left corner
2015/03/01 v1.1: Fullscreen option not mobile compliant, removed
2015/03/05 v1.1: Dark background for more effective card display, improved corner indices

• Wikipedia: Tarot 1JJ
• Wikimedia Commons: Tarot 1JJ card set

• Thomas Weibel, Prof. M. A., Journalist BR