Atom Bomb (RWS)

Nothing about the process Trinary uses to deal cards is a secret; it's happily explained, so you don't have to wonder what's actually happening behind the scenes.

For randomness, Trinary uses the Mersenne Twister ↗︎ pseudorandom number generator. It's seeded using the current time, a high-resolution timer (and where applicable, your statement of intent) combined.

That controls the regular [Shuffle] button.

If you don't like code shuffling your cards and you prefer to use your own hand to shuffle, we offer that too (see below).

Wherever possible I try to preserve the experience of reading cards and make the online process as close to the offline process as I can.

A tool, not a replacement.

The cards you are using and the order they are in is carefully preserved throughout the process, until you hit the [Clear] button to start over. It has been since it was first added in Trinary v2.

That means when you hit [Shuffle] more than once, it's not just starting over. The second [Shuffle] takes the result of the first one, and shuffles THAT. The third time you shuffle, you're shuffling the result of the second. And so on. This preserves the readers ability to keep shuffling till it "feels right". Then when you stop shuffling, the order of the cards is predetermined as you deal them out. They are in the order you shuffled them into, like a real deck.

This idea of continued shuffling till it "feels right" (just like offline), was so important to me that in Trinary v2 I started each deck in order, so you HAD to shuffle. But I was told that was annoying and so now they begin shuffled and you can order them with the [Sort] button if you want.

You also have a [Manual Shuffle], so you can do it yourself instead of letting Trinary. This gives you squares to click on, representing face-down cards that you are stacking in whatever order you click. This allows you to fully determine the order of the cards with your own hand.

I also added [Cut Deck], which acts on the stack of cards you shuffled just like a regular cut would in real life. You reach down as far as you want till it "feels right", and that's where the cut happens to your stack that we're been keeping in your shuffled order the whole time.

And just like a real deck, you can [Peek] and see what order your cards are in. This also allows you to verify how I described [Cut Deck] works, if you [Peek] before and after a cut.

You can shuffle and cut at any point, like you would offline. So for example, you could get a query, concentrate on the query while you shuffle, deal the response; then if they ask a follow up question you can shuffle or cut the remaining cards that are still in your deck while concentrating on this new question, before dealing again.

You can switch decks in the middle of a reading if you wanna get crazy and deal from more than one deck at a time. And, importantly, each deck is handled separately as you switch from one deck to another. So you can have reversals on for one deck and not the other, or shuffle one deck and not the other.

Your tarot reading is always private!
(We never save, store, or read them).

If we add the ability to save memorable spreads in the future, you'll know you're doing it, you'll be choosing to do it. Nothing sneaky.