Doodle Deck: a tarot deck that looks like a school craft project

Every card looks like a photograph of a paper collage. Skies are torn blue paper, the ground is crumpled wrapping paper or corrugated card, clouds are tufts of cotton wool, and flowers are felt, tissue paper or buttons. Figures are flat cardboard shapes with crayon-pink cheeks and big googly eyes. The frame is a patchwork of turquoise, pink and yellow washi tape with felt-tip loops; the numeral is crayoned on a paper tab and the title hand-lettered in black marker.

The traditional symbols survive in craft form. The Magician raises a crayon as his wand under a pipe-cleaner infinity sign. The Tower is a stack of cardboard boxes and paper tubes struck by yellow lightning. The back is a cardboard question mark studded with googly eyes.

It suits anyone who wants to ask a question without heavy, mystical staging. It works well for everyday matters: plans for the week, a friendship that has gone quiet, a hobby you keep putting off, the first month in a new job. Newcomers to tarot often find it easier too, because the cheerful pictures take the edge off cards with a fearsome reputation, such as Death, The Devil and The Tower.

The playful look does not soften the content. If a card with a difficult meaning comes up, the interpretation says so plainly; only the picture is friendlier. For worries about health, money or a major life decision, a reading can help you sort your thoughts, but it is no substitute for a doctor, a financial adviser or a therapist.

Create an account and you get 5 free tokens with no payment card required; one token pays for one reading. Type your question, choose a category (love, career, finance, spirituality or general) and pick Doodle Deck from the deck list.

Three cards are drawn at random from the 22 Major Arcana and laid out as past, present and future. The AI interprets each card against your question and then writes a summary, streamed onto the screen as it is generated. If you want more detail, you can draw up to two extra cards for 1 token each. Every reading is saved to your history. The cardboard artwork has no effect on the result: the meanings are the same as in any other deck.