German cartomancy · 36 cards
Kipper: social scenes without rewriting history
OmenHall separates the Original 36 and documented publishing history from later legend and modern schools. Technology and deck order are fixed first; only then may the modern practical layer read people, meetings, letters, home, work, and institutions.
1890 · Kipper
Historical foundation
1890, Matthias Seidlein, the museum-held Original 36, and the boundary between fact, legend, and later school.
6 · Kipper
Technologies
Edition, figure direction, modern 4x8+4, 9x4, 7x5, and an intentionally closed early runtime.
36 · Kipper
Scholar Mode
Inspect each card's German title, source tier, and exactly what OmenHall does not claim.
25 · Kipper
Method Evidence Atlas
Check each disputed rule: verified, modern-only, research lead, or open pending a primary witness.
3 · Kipper
Research Desk
Archive queue, three prepared external requests, and modern German bibliography without back-projecting it into 1890.
36 · Kipper
Honest session
Modern OmenHall Practical: Web Crypto, cut, sequential deal, no reversals and no AI interference.
36 · Kipper
36 Original Kipper
Source-bound identity of all 36 cards, separate from modern practical meaning.
4 · Kipper
Layouts and schools
Compare modern geometries without presenting one as the sole 1890 instruction.
9 · Kipper
Spreads
Modern product formats from one card to full-deck view, each with an explicit method boundary.
36 · Kipper
Physical session
How to preserve the truth of a physical deck in a digital session.
3 · Kipper
Modern practice
Roles, documents, and safe OmenHall practical layers, explicitly not presented as the early instruction text.