Alright, so let me tell you about this thing I tried the other day, kinda mashed up hangman and tarot cards. Sounds weird, right? Yeah, it kinda was.
I was just sitting around, shuffling my tarot deck, not really planning on doing a proper reading. You know how sometimes you just fiddle with things? Then I remembered playing hangman as a kid. And my brain just went, “Hey, what if…?” It didn’t seem like it would make any sense, which honestly made me want to try it more.
Getting Started
So, here’s what I did. I didn’t have anyone else around, so I had to be the one setting the word and guessing. Kinda defeats the purpose of hangman, but whatever, this was just an experiment. I thought of a word – let’s say it was something like ‘BALANCE’. Wrote down the blanks: _ _ _ _ _ _ _.
Then I grabbed my tarot deck. My idea was simple: every time I guessed a wrong letter, I’d pull a card. Maybe the card would give me a clue? Or maybe it would just be random nonsense. Probably the second one, let’s be real.
The Process – How it Went Down
Okay, first guess. I went with ‘E’. Nailed it. _ _ _ _ _ _ E. Felt pretty good about that.
Next guess, ‘A’. Got that one too. _ A _ A _ _ E.
Alright, feeling smart now. Let’s try ‘S’. Nope. Not in there. Okay, time for the tarot part. I shuffled the deck a bit, cut it, and pulled a card. Got the Three of Swords. You know, the heart with the swords sticking in it. Lovely. Didn’t exactly scream ‘helpful clue’. Felt more like the deck was telling me this was a painful mistake. I drew the first part of the hangman figure.
Okay, shake it off. Next guess. How about ‘I’? Wrong again. Pulled another card. The Hermit. Okay, maybe that meant look inward? Or maybe the letter was hiding? Or maybe it was just some old dude with a lantern. Didn’t help me guess a letter. Drew the next part of the hangman.
Let’s try ‘O’. Wrong. Card pull: Page of Cups. A young person offering a cup with a fish. Super helpful for guessing a letter, right? Drew another body part on the gallows.
I kept going like this. Guessed ‘L’. Got it. _ A L A _ _ E. Guessed ‘N’. Got it. _ A L A N _ E. Guessed ‘C’. Got it. B A L A N C E. Finally got the word.
So, What Did I Think?
Honestly? It was… a thing I did. Did the tarot cards actually help me guess the word? Absolutely not. The meanings felt completely disconnected from the letters or the word itself. The Three of Swords didn’t point me towards ‘L’ or ‘N’ or ‘C’. The Hermit didn’t whisper the missing letters.
It mostly just added an extra step to getting a letter wrong. Made the game longer, I guess. It was kind of interesting to see which cards came up, just out of curiosity, but linking them to the hangman game felt like a real stretch. Like trying to nail jelly to a wall.
Maybe if the word was something like ‘TOWER’ and I pulled The Tower card on a wrong guess, I’d think “Whoa!”. But mostly it was just random card, random letter guess, draw a bit of the hangman.
Would I do it again? Eh, maybe if I was incredibly bored and wanted to mix things up. But it’s not some profound divination technique I discovered. It was just goofing off with cards and a word game. Pretty much exactly what it sounds like.
