Since ancient times man has strived to search out the unknown. His pursuit of knowledge of the future has led to the creation of many different methods of fortune telling such as astrology, numerology, I-ching, crystallomancy (reading of a crystal ball), palmistry (chiromancy), as well as psychic readings to mention but a few. Fortune-telling is defined as the practice of predicting the future, usually of an individual, through mystical or supernatural means.

• In some ways the employment of playing cards for divination purposes is more impressive to a client than the use of pictorial Tarot or Cartomancy cards, but in other ways there are drawbacks.
• The upside of using non-pictorial cards from the reader's point of view is that the reader appears both mysterious and erudite, there is an aura of "fate" or "destiny" present as the reader describes the attributes of the cards.
• The major downside to reading with non-pictorial cards again from the reader's point of view is that a great deal of memorization is required, for there are no characteristic emblems to give the reader a hint as to what the cards imply.
• With a little practice, use these cards for divination. When they see a regular deck of playing cards although most people think its only a games.
• Another drawback is that a hostile or Denying client unfamiliar with a traditional system of divinatory playing card attributions.
• Of course, any Lenormand style cartomancy decks that include playing card insets on their faces can also be used for playing any number of games and some people consider decks that have been used in fortune telling to be especially lucky for games of chance.