Piquet is a trick-taking card game for two players, played with a shortened thirty-two-card deck, in which players score points both by declaring card combinations held in their hand before play, such as sequences and sets, and by winning tricks during play. The game originated in France, with its standard form established by the sixteenth century, and it became especially popular among the French and English aristocracy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Piquet is regarded as one of the older members of the trick-taking card game family and influenced the scoring and combination-declaring structure of several later games.
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Partially Attested
Origin YearThis is the year of the earliest written reference to the game, as Le Cent in Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, not a confirmed invention date; a legendary attribution to La Hire during the Hundred Years War is noted but not substantiated by the source Originating Region Classification
Player Count Sport
Game Type (category) Connections
Ancestor Of
Bezique, Games Why this is disputed. Card-game historians hold competing accounts of Bezique's exact ancestry (French and Swiss claims both exist); descent from Piquet-family trick-and-meld play is the mainstream account, not a settled one.
Source The Oxford Guide to Card Games
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Sources
1. Piquet (Wikipedia)
Opening paragraph
Piquet is an early 16th-century plain-trick card game for two players that became France's national game.
Lead sentence, game classification
Piquet is an early 16th-century plain-trick card game for two players that became France's national game.
History section, first paragraph
It is first mentioned, as Le Cent, in a written reference dating to 1535, in Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais.
entity record, description lead (player-count)
Piquet is a trick-taking card game for two players, played with a shortened thirty-two-card deck, in which players score points both by declaring card combinations held in their hand before play, such as sequences and sets, and by winning tricks during play. The game originated in France, with its standard form established by the sixteenth century, and it became especially popular among
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