You roll two ordinary six-sided dice to consult the Trumps Major and three to consult the Minor Arcana. (You get the Fool if something goes wrong, like one of the dice landing on its edge or falling off the table or something.) Each face of the die has its face value except for four and six. Four is counted as 7, and six is counted as 11. (Think of how the pips on the six are arranged in two vertical lines, like 11.) To calculate the value of a roll, you multiply the respective values of each die rather than adding them up.
For example, suppose you roll three dice and get one, three, and four. Four represents 7, and the other two have their face value. The value of the roll is then 1 × 3 × 7 = 21.
The Trumps Major are mapped to the rolls of two dice in rank order according to their face value (in the Rider-Waite sequence), as follows, with "root trumps" (squares) in bold:
{1, 1} = 1 = I. The Magician
{1, 2} = 2 = II. The High Priestess{1, 3} = 3 = III. The Empress
{2, 2} = 4 = IV. The Emperor
{1, 5} = 5 = V. The Hierophant{2, 3} = 6 = VI. The Lovers{1, 4} = 7 = VII. The Chariot
{3, 3} = 9 = VIII. Strength
{2, 5} = 10 = IX. The Hermit{1, 6} = 11 = X. The Wheel of Fortune{2, 4} = 14 = XI. Justice{3, 5} = 15 = XII. The Hanged Man{3, 4} = 21 = XIII. Death{2, 6} = 22 = XIV. Temperance
{5, 5} = 25 = XV. The Devil
{3, 6} = 33 = XVI. The Tower{4, 5} = 35 = XVII. The Star
{4, 4} = 49 = XVIII. The Moon
{5, 6} = 55 = XIX. The Sun{4, 6} = 77 = XX. Judgement
{6, 6} = 121 = XXI. The World
The Minor Arcana are ranked first by suit (with Wands high) and then by rank within that suit. In accordance with longstanding tradition, Aces are high for the round suits and low for the long suits. The cubes are bolded as equivalent to the root trumps. Rolls with no repeated numbers, which have the highest probability, are italicized.
{1, 1, 1} = 1 = Ten of Pentacles
{1, 1, 2} = 2 = Nine of Pentacles{1, 1, 3} = 3 = Eight of Pentacles{1, 2, 2} = 4 = Seven of Pentacles{1, 1, 5} = 5 = Six of Pentacles
{1, 2, 3} = 6 = Five of Pentacles
{1, 1, 4} = 7 = Four of Pentacles
{2, 2, 2} = 8 = Three of Pentacles
{1, 3, 3} = 9 = Two of Pentacles
{1, 2, 5} = 10 = Ace of Pentacles
{1, 1, 6} = 11 = Page of Pentacles{2, 2, 3} = 12 = Knight of Pentacles
{1, 2, 4} = 14 = Queen of Pentacles
{1, 3, 5} = 15 = King of Pentacles
{2, 3, 3} = 18 = Ace of Swords{2, 2, 5} = 20 = Two of Swords
{7, 3, 4} = 21 = Three of Swords
{1, 2, 6} = 22 = Four of Swords
{1, 5, 5} = 25 = Five of Swords
{3, 3, 3} = 27 = Six of Swords
{2, 2, 4} = 28 = Seven of Swords
{2, 3, 5} = 30 = Eight of Swords
{1, 3, 6} = 33 = Nine of Swords
{1, 4, 5} = 35 = Ten of Swords
{2, 3, 4} = 42 = Page of Swords
{2, 2, 6} = 44 = Knight of Swords{3, 3, 5} = 45 = Queen of Swords{1, 4, 4} = 49 = King of Swords{2, 5, 5} = 50 = Ten of Cups
{1, 5, 6} = 55 = Nine of Cups
{3, 3, 4} = 63 = Eight of Cups
{2, 3, 6} = 66 = Seven of Cups
{2, 4, 5} = 70 = Six of Cups
{3, 5, 5} = 75 = Five of Cups
{1, 4, 6} = 77 = Four of Cups
{2, 4, 4} = 98 = Three of Cups{3, 3, 6} = 99 = Two of Cups
{3, 4, 5} = 105 = Ace of Cups
{2, 5, 6} = 110 = Page of Cups
{1, 6, 6} = 121 = Knight of Cups
{5, 5, 5} = 125 = Queen of Cups
{3, 4, 4} = 147 = King of Cups
{2, 4, 6} = 154 = Ace of Wands
{3, 5, 6} = 165 = Two of Wands
{4, 5, 5} = 175 = Three of Wands
{3, 4, 6} = 231 = Four of Wands
{2, 6, 6} = 242 = Five of Wands{4, 4, 5} = 245 = Six of Wands{5, 5, 6} = 275 = Seven of Wands
{4, 4, 4} = 343 = Eight of Wands
{3, 6, 6} = 363 = Nine of Wands
{4, 5, 6} = 385 = Ten of Wands
{4, 4, 6} = 539 = Page of Wands{5, 6, 6} = 605 = Knight of Wands{4, 6, 6} = 847 = Queen of Wands
{6, 6, 6} = 1331 = King of Wands
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