Bezique is a trick-taking and melding card game for two players, played with a specialized deck made by combining two reduced decks containing only the seven through ace of each suit, in which players score points both by declaring valuable card combinations, most famously the marriage of bezique itself, the queen of spades and jack of diamonds, and by winning tricks. The game developed in France in the early nineteenth century from an earlier French game and became fashionable in England and elsewhere in Europe later that century. It is a direct ancestor of the American card game pinochle, which German immigrants adapted from it.
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Originating Region Sport
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Ancestor Of
American Pinochle developed from the German Binokel/Bezique family of melding card games.
Source The Oxford Guide to Card Games
Derived From
Piquet, 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
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Europe, found in there.
Sources
1. Bezique - Wikipedia
History section
What is known is that the first rules, for a game played with a single pack of 32 cards, appeared in Paris in 1847 where Méry described it as a new game.
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Bezique (/bəˈziːk/) or bésigue (French: [beziɡ]) is a 19th-century French melding and trick-taking card game for two players, which was imported to Britain and is still played today.
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Type: Trick-taking
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Bezique is a trick-taking and melding card game for two players, played with a specialized deck made by combining two reduced decks containing only the seven through ace of each suit, in which players score points both by declaring valuable card combinations, most famously the marriage of bezique itself, the queen of spades and jack of diamonds, and by winning tricks. The game developed
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