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I actually know another silly party fortunes method that uses a regular playing deck in a way that isn't terribly related to the Tarot. I'm told I've been frighteningly accurate with it, though I wasn't really trying. I chalk that up to the general function of Random-Data Divination.
You take 4 face cards, 1 from each suit (this is important - no more, no less, or it doesn't work), of gender appropriate to the orientation of the querant (You could use the Aces, I suppose, if you'd rather dodge the gender question). The querant assigns each one to somebody they're interested in, in this order of priority: Hearts - the one they love most, Spades - the one with whom they have the most dynamic relationship (i.e. love/hate), Clubs - the one with whom they have the most sexual chemistry, Diamonds - the one with the greatest financial prospects. I list priority, because if the one they love most is also the one they have the most chemistry with, it's more important to assign them to the Heart. These face cards are set in a row.
Then the querant pulls 1 card from the deck, and hands it to the reader, without either of them looking at it.
Now the rest of the cards are shuffled, and the reader keeps them to answer the questions. Ultimately, the reader will deal the cards to each of the Face cards, face down, from left to right, until all the cards have been dealt. This must be done in a particular way to answer the questions.
What happens is, the querant (or anybody else in the room, if it's a party) may ask any question where the answer is one of the four love interests represented by the Face cards. Then, without showing them to anybody else, the Reader looks at the top card in the deck, and if it's suit matches the suit of the Face Card it is to be placed on, then the Love Interest represented by that Face is the answer. If it doesn't match, the card goes down, and the Reader looks at the next card down, and so on, until a match is made.
Once all the cards are dealt to the four Faces, the reader takes all the cards in each hand, and sorts them by suit, in order, Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds, Spades. The quantity of each suit tells what the overall relationship would be like. 3 is an average amount, 5 is a lot, 1 is very little. You get the idea. Hearts is depth of emotional attachment. Clubs, you may say it's the number of children, or just how much time they spend in bed together. Diamonds is how well-to-do they are together. Spades is how much time they spend arguing. It's good to correlate between them, of course. If there's only 1 diamond but 4 spades, you can say the lack of money is the reason for the arguments. Etc. I always tease when there's more than 3 Clubs.
Finally, the last card, which was the one drawn early and set aside, will tell which of the four they actually end up with, ultimately (or stay with the longest, if you want to be conservative). Again, this is based on matching suit.
The meanings of the suits does seem to correlate loosely with the Tarot suits, but the numbers of the cards is totally ignored.
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I'm always gratified when I get confirmation from a querant that I'm not just making things up.