Why were tarot cards created?

Documentation is clear: as a richer card game for 15th-century Italian nobility — trump cards layered on the standard deck to make tarocchi. The Italian word trionfi (triumphs) survives as 'trumps' in English. Esoteric creation stories (Egypt, Atlantis) were invented in the 1780s to sell the idea to France. Party game first, oracle later, internet app centuries after that.