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'''U.S. Games Systems, Inc.''' is a publisher of playing cards, [[Tarot]] cards, and games located in Stamford, Connecticut. It has published hundreds of different card sets, and about 20 new titles are released annually. The company's product line includes children's card games, museum products, educational cards, motivational cards, tarot cards, and other fortune telling card decks. These are marketed through a network of retailers, including bookstores, museum gift shops, metaphysical shops, greeting card stores; toy and game stores; hobby shops, and mail order catalogs. | '''U.S. Games Systems, Inc.''' is a publisher of playing cards, [[Tarot]] cards, and games located in Stamford, Connecticut. It has published hundreds of different card sets, and about 20 new titles are released annually. The company's product line includes children's card games, museum products, educational cards, motivational cards, tarot cards, and other fortune telling card decks. These are marketed through a network of retailers, including bookstores, museum gift shops, [[metaphysics|metaphysical]] shops, greeting card stores; toy and game stores; hobby shops, and mail order catalogs. | ||
The company is also known for its commitment to novel interpretations of the tarot, featuring new artwork in a variety of styles and formats. The company's logo is a silhouette of [[The Fool]] tarot card, taken from the drawing by Pamela Colman Smith for the Rider-Waite Tarot. | The company is also known for its commitment to novel interpretations of the tarot, featuring new artwork in a variety of styles and formats. The company's logo is a silhouette of [[The Fool]] tarot card, taken from the drawing by Pamela Colman Smith for the Rider-Waite Tarot. | ||
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Other tarot sets published by U.S. Games include a traditional [[Tarot of Marseilles]], two [[Visconti-Sforza Tarot]] decks, an Oswald Wirth tarot, and the [[Thoth Tarot]] designed by [[Aleister Crowley]] and drawn by Lady Frieda Harris. Some of the best known of these are the hippie-influenced Aquarian tarot, the borderless Morgan-Greer tarot, the circular Motherpeace tarot, and the Tarot of the Witches by Fergus Hall, which was featured in the James Bond movie ''Live and Let Die''. | Other tarot sets published by U.S. Games include a traditional [[Tarot of Marseilles]], two [[Visconti-Sforza Tarot]] decks, an Oswald Wirth tarot, and the [[Thoth Tarot]] designed by [[Aleister Crowley]] and drawn by Lady Frieda Harris. Some of the best known of these are the hippie-influenced Aquarian tarot, the borderless Morgan-Greer tarot, the circular Motherpeace tarot, and the Tarot of the Witches by Fergus Hall, which was featured in the James Bond movie ''Live and Let Die''. | ||
==External links== | |||
* [https://www.usgamesinc.com/ Official website] | |||
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