hanafuda cards (fortune telling) (by ParaGlitter)

Demonstrating a reading with Hanafuda / Hwatu cards, from Korea

Introduced to Korea by the Japanese, they are popularly used as a gambling game, and also fortune-telling cards.

The future can only be told for the individual who is handling the cards — one cannot read the future for someone else with them. If someone else were to touch the cards while they are being delt, it spoils the reading, and the dealer must begin again, with a fresh shuffle and deal.