Day 59 -> Who Invented the Playing Cards?

    Studies can't seem to agree, but many researchers claim it was the Chinese in the 10th century. The first cards - stripes of paper with drawings of shells, stones, arrows and bones -, however, were not meant for playing. They were used in divination rituals. Around the year 1,300, those cards were brought to Europe by the Arabs. Each deck, then, had 22 cards, and became known as tarots.
     Only in the 16th century the French created the 52 cards model for games. With time, the suits or naipes were added: hearts, clubs, spades and diamonds.

~Ally