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You're going to need to know how to use playing cards for a tarot reading for this.
Thirty Plus
This is a Tarot reading that uses 32 cards. Remove the 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, 6s and Knights from your Tarot deck to obtain the desired number. Or, if you are using a standard deck of playing cards, just remove the 2s-6s.
After shuffling and cutting the cards, the dukker takes the top and bottom cards from the deck and puts them to one side. This is sometimes referred to as "the surprise." Next, three cards are dealt, face down, in a straight line, from right to left. Three more cards are placed on top of those, then three more, and so on, in the same manner. The pile on the left represents the past, the pile in the center is the present, and the pile on the right is the future.

First, pick up the pile on the left, the past, and lay them out in a row, from left to right, and interpret them. Next, lay the cards from the middle stack in a row directly beneath the past, and interpret. Then lay the future cards out in a row below the present and read those. Finally, turn over the two cards that you set aside in the beginning - "the surprise." They represent a sudden turn of events that will have a direct impact on the querent's future - a situation that will likely arise during the unfolding of events indicated by the 10 "future" cards.
Gypsy Threes
This is a Tarot reading that uses 32 cards. Remove the 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, 6s and Knights from your Tarot deck to obtain the desired number. Or, if you are using a standard deck of playing cards, just remove the 2s-6s.
Shuffle the deck and then cut it with, with your left hand, into three piles. Pick up the piles, placing the right-hand pile on top of the center pile, and then the left-hand pile on top of them all.

Flip the stack of cards over so that you can see the bottom card. Spread the bottom three cards and select the one that is highest from the deck and place the other two off to the side. Work your way through the entire deck this way.

Then, pick up the stack of cards that you laid aside and shuffle them together. After shuffling them, look through them to see if there are any sets of three of any value or suit in a row. If there are, then pull them out of the deck and lay them face up to the right of the cards that you selected on the first round. Next, spread out the original cards along wtih the set(s) of three to their right and read them from left to right.
Six Piles
This is a form of card divination that uses thirty-two cards. Remove the 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, 6s and Knights from your Tarot deck to obtain the desired number. Or, if you are using a standard deck of playing cards, just remove the 2s-6s.
Select a "Significator," a King, Queen, Jack or Page, to represent the querent. A black or very dark-haired person would be represented by spades or swords; a medium-brown-haired person by clubs or wands; a light-brown-haired person by diamonds or pentacles; and a very light-haired person by hearts or cups. Men are represented by Kings, women by Queens, and young people of both genders by the Jacks or Pages. Once you have selected the card, place it in the center of teh table.
Next, ask the querent to shuffle the deck. Once they are satisfied with the mix, take the deck from them and deal six cards in a circle around the Significator. Do this twice more so that you have six piles with three cards each. The piles are numbered clockwise, number one being where you started dealing from (usually in the top right position). Pile number one represents the querent; number two represents the querent's home; number three represents the querent's friend (especially a close friend); number four represents the querent's work; number five represents what the querent holds dearest in their heart; and number six represents what the querent can expect in the immediate future. Turn over each of cards and interpret them, one at a time, according to their position in the circle.
'Gyptian Pyramid
For this divination you will either need a full deck of Tarot cards or a full deck of playing cards. Shuffle the deck and cut it once with your left hand (in Gypsy cartomancy cuts are always made with the left hand, to the left) and place the pile to the left. Draw a card from the larger of the two piles and lay it face up. Draw the next two cards and lay them below the first. Continue in this way, increasing each row of cards by one, until you have used all of the cards in that pile. If you run out of cards and have an incomplete row, then use the smaller pile to finish it off.

Next, pick up the last card in each row (the one on the far right, including the single card in the top row). Sort the cards you picked up by suit (disregard the Major Arcana if you are using a Tarot deck) to see which suit has the most cards. If it is hearts or cups then good luck will be forthcoming; if it is spades or swords, bad luck is imminent. Diamonds and pentacles signify good financial luck, and clubs and wands indicate a potential affair. If there are two suits with the same amount of cards, and more than the others, then draw one card at a time from the remaining small pile until you come to one of the cards of the two suits. Then pick up the cards from the left end of the pyramid's rows (including the single card at the top) and combine them with the "winning" suit. Use this combination to conduct the querent's reading.
Trin Putchipens
(Three Questions)
This form of cartomancy only uses a partial deck of 32 cards. Remove the 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, 6s and Knights from your Tarot deck to obtain the desired number. Or, if you are using a standard deck of playing cards, just remove the 2s-6s.
This reading is a bit complex, but very effective for answering three questions.

While shuffling the deck, the querent should make three wishes. The reader then selects the top three cards from the deck and lays them in a row, face down, from left to right. The reader then draws five cards and lays them out in a row beneath the row of three, and finally, the reader draws seven cards and lays them out below the row of five, all face down.

The reader then flips over the cards in the first row and adds their values (Ace is one; Jack or Page is 11; Queen is 12; King is 13). If one of the three cards is an Ace, the first wish is guaranteed to come true, regardless of the total. The highest possible value is 39, the lowest either 7 or 8, depending on which deck you're using. Using that range determine the likelihood that the querent's wish will be granted - the lower the number, the better.

Do the same with the next two rows, the only difference being that the third wish requires two Aces in its row to guarantee its occurrence. In any row, a number of sevens and eights (the lowest value cards after the Aces) are very good signs of success.
Lucky Aces
This reading is used for a qucik sign of good luck for up to four people at one time. The reader deals one Ace to each querent. The querents memorize which suit is theirs and then return their Ace to the deck. Next, each querent takes turns shuffling the deck while concentrating on their wish.

After everyone has finished shuffling, the first querent deals 13 cards, face up, to themselves. Whoevers Ace appears will have their wish granted. The Ace, or Aces, are then removed and the reamining cards are returned to the deck. The querents then takes turns shuffling the deck, once again, while concentrating on their wish. The second querent now deals out 13 cards, face up. Whoevers Ace appears during this round has a good chance of having their wish fulfilled. Those Aces are then removed, the remaining cards returned to the deck, and, again, the querents take turns shuffling the cards. If there are still Aces in the deck, the third querent then deals out 13 cards face up. Any Aces that appear during this round reveal a possibility of success. A fourth deal is not permitted, nor is it necessary, for any Aces that did not appear indicate that that person's wish will not be granted.

This form of divination can also be conducted with coins. This process is rooted in the ancient Chinese I-Ching which, though traditionally done with yarrow sticks, can also be done using three coins. The reason for using only three coins is that three is a magickal and mystical number. The coins used to be of silver or gold, today, however, any three coins may be used so long as they are of the same size and denomination.

The querent holds the coins in between their hands and concentrates on their question or questions. The coins are then passed to the reader who holds them for a few moments to absorb the energies. The coins are then thrown onto the table and their relative positions are noted. The separation of the coins, their distances from one another, and the patterns they make all have relevance (see Bean Toss for how to interpret these things. The other thing that is taken into consideration in this type of reading is the number of heads and tails that are facing up. To interpret the meaning of this, wherever the coins have fallen, they are regarded as being in a straight line, and read from left to right. The eight possible combinations are:

HEAD TAIL TAIL
HEAD HEAD TAIL
HEAD HEAD HEAD
TAIL TAIL TAIL
TAIL TAIL HEAD
TAIL HEAD HEAD
HEAD TAIL HEAD
TAIL HEAD TAIL

Here too is a connection to the I-Ching, in that the combinations are similar to the eight trigrams; however, the Rom interpret them differently.

HEAD TAIL TAIL: Possibly negative. Possibility of trickery. Be on your guard. Plan carefully. Bad investments. Opportunities, if you choose carefully.
HEAD HEAD TAIL: Possibly positive. Potential for gain. Chance to invest. Possibility of love.
HEAD HEAD HEAD: Definitely positive. Joy and contentment. Wishes fulfilled. Enjoy yourself. Fertility.
TAIL TAIL TAIL: Definitely negative. Tragedy. Bad luck. Fraud. Scandal. Seduction.
TAIL TAIL HEAD: Possibly negative. Exercise caution. Possibility of bad news. Financial loss. Accusations.
TAIL HEAD HEAD: Possibly positive. A letter containing good news. Meeting with an old friend. Business success. Inheritance.
HEAD TAIL HEAD: Possibly positive. Meeting with a man that could be very fortunate. A new beginning; chance to start over.
TAIL HEAD TAIL: Possibly negative. Meeting with a woman. Plan before acting. Temptation.

Combined with the meanings from the Bean Toss, this sort of reading can become much more complex and in-depth, but this is a good way to conduct a quick reading.

The Bean Toss
Slavic Gypsies use beans for divination. The querent is asked to give the dukker a coin and this is held in the dukker's hand. Both the beans and the coin are shaken up whie the dukker concentrates on the querent's question. The dukker then opens her hands and allows the beans and coin to fall freely onto a flat surface. The coin represents the querent, and the positions of the beans in relation to the coin are what is interpreted. There are nine beans. Once they have landed on the surface, the beans that land in the area in front of the dukker represent the present; the area farthest away, the future. Two, three, or more beans lying close together indicate very powerful forces:
Three or more beans in a straight line indicate a journey.
Three or more beans in a curved line indicate a setback or delay.
A "tight" triangle (with the three beans only about an inch apart) indicates money.
A "loose" triangle (with the three beans more than an inch apart) indicates a woman.
A rectangle of four beans indicates a man.
A five-stone star (a pentacle) indicates good luck.
A six-stone star (like the Star of David) indicates business success.
A four stone diamond indicates trouble with the law.