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Mus (card game)

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Mus is a vying card game, in the family of games where players wager and bluff about the strength of their hands rather than capture or build combinations, played chiefly in Spain, France and Spanish-speaking parts of the Americas. It is played by four people in two fixed partnerships of two, using a Spanish-suited deck, in which each pair signals privately through partner-to-partner gestures while betting across separate phases of the hand called grande, chica, pares and juego. The game originated in the Basque Country, and its earliest documented reference dates to 1745, when the Basque Jesuit philologist Manuel Larramendi recorded it in a trilingual Basque-Spanish-Latin dictionary. Mus remains the most widely played card game in Spain, supported by dedicated clubs known as penas, and Basque vocabulary from the game, such as the term ordago for an all-in wager, has passed into general Spanish usage even among speakers unaware of its Basque origin.

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Card Game 1
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Small Group (3-6 Players) 1
Origin Year
1745 1
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1. Mus (card game) (Wikipedia)
  • Lead, first sentence
    is a card game widely played in Spain, France and Hispanic America
  • Lead, third sentence
    The first reference to this game dates back to 1745
  • Lead, second sentence
    Originating in the Basque Country, it is a vying game
  • Infobox 'players' field: 4
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