Le Quatre Sept, also known as La Politaine or La Poule, is a trick-taking card game played in the French-speaking provinces of Canada. It is a four-player partnership game without trumps: players sit opposite their partners in fixed teams and use a 32-card French suited pack, whose cards rank 10, 9, ace, king, queen, jack, 8, 7 from high to low. Each player receives eight cards, and any card may be led, with players obliged to follow suit when able. The game descends from the Italian game Tressette, which was fashionable throughout Europe in the 18th century, and it keeps the French adaptation of Tressette's ranking in which the 10 and 9 stand in for the missing 3 and 2. Aces, tens, nines, kings, queens and jacks carry point values, the last trick counts, and a side wins by reaching 31 points. A hand that holds all four sevens wins the game outright, which gives the game its name.
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Game Type (category) Game Type (category) Classification
Player CountSmall Group (3-6 Players) 1 Player Count Connections
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Source Pagat (John McLeod): Quatre Sept, with Pollack
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Source Pagat (John McLeod): Quatre Sept, with PollackIntroduction [origin-region]Quote, Introduction [origin-region]
is played in the French-speaking provinces of Canada
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1. Pagat (John McLeod): Quatre Sept, with Pollack
Players and Cards
There are four players in fixed partnerships.
Introduction
It is a four-player partnership point trick game without trumps.
Introduction [origin-region]
is played in the French-speaking provinces of Canada
Derived From: Tressette, Introduction [derived-from]
It is descended from the Italian game Tressette
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