Trionfi

TRIONFI is a trick-taking card game for two: you sit down against Italian lords and play with the Visconti tarot cards, painted in Milan around 1445. Before tarot told fortunes, it was a game. It still can't tell your future, but it will tell you who takes this trick.
Take tricks, count the points
Follow suit, trump when you can't, and watch what your opponent throws away. Court cards and a few great trumps carry the points. After each trick the game tells you why it was won and where every point came from.
Two games, one deck
Venticinque ("twenty-five") is a game of Piedmont, played by a rule book printed in Turin in 1787: a match of four hands, 25 cards each, and a Fool that never leaves its owner. Under every rule stands the page it comes from, or a plain note that the rule is ours.
The Duel is our own quicker game, with stakes and doubling, made to teach you the deck.
Opponents from Pisanello's medals
Four lords of the 1440s sit across the table: Ludovico Gonzaga, Sigismondo Malatesta, Francesco Sforza and Duke Filippo Maria Visconti, from easy to master.
A museum at the table
Every card, face and object in the room has its own page: what it is, where it comes from, what survives and what is reconstructed.
Real cards, honest repairs
The cards come from scans of the Cary-Yale Visconti deck at Yale's Beinecke Library. By default the table shows them restored for easier reading; one setting switches to the plain scans, and the museum always shows them. 17 of the 78 cards in the game have no surviving original: 16 are AI reconstructions, one is assembled from the deck's own coins, and the game marks them.
In the full game
A table for up to four, with bots and with friends by invitation, and more historical games on the tarot deck, restored from old rule books: Baronetti, Morto, games for three and four, and others. In development.