Challenge: Tarot Games popular in the Anglosphere

Tarot as a divination tool only appeared in the late 18th century and picked up in the Romantic Era. Before that, Tarot was used to play a family of card games (it was even the first card game to feature trumps). It's still played even nowadays in Central Europe, France and parts of Italy.

Going back on topic, if the planned French invasion of Britain in the 1740s goes as planned and England is occupied for a few years, then I could see Tarot as plausibly being introduced to the British Isles, before possibly being brought to the American colonies. Of course, Tarot in the Anglosphere would probably be the least of changes, since a successful French invasion of England would probably also mean that the Jacobites would succeed and Charles Edward Stewart is King of Britain in TTL.
 
French colonists in canada might help bring it to the British colonists there.

I never heard of it being popular here amongst out ancestors - methink tarot is something of southern france's (like marseille) and the immigrants to New France came from the northern states, Acadia too to a lesser point.
 
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