Bézique
Bézique , Bésique , Bésigue or Bézigue as well as Germanized Besik or Besit was a card game popular in France and the United Kingdom at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries . Bézique was Winston Churchill's favorite card game , the game is said to have originated in the French province of Poitou , from where it came to Paris .
The family of Bézique games includes binoculars and its American variant Pinochle, Schnapsen or sixty-six , Klaberjass and the various Jass variants.
The game
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Bezique is of two people with two packets -call cards , that is two times 32 cards French cards played, one game is usually up to 1000 points (points) played.
Each player receives eight hands; the next card is opened face up and determines the atout suit. The remaining cards are placed face down across the open card, the pile thus formed is the talon . After each trick , both players take a card from the talon (compare sixty-six ).
You report in a similar way to the on- call call .
- Four aces are worth 100,
- four kings 80,
- four ladies 60,
- four boys 40;
- Mariage (king and queen) applies in Atout 40, otherwise 20.
- Queen of spades and Jack of diamonds form Bézique and are worth 40,
- both queens of spades and jacks of diamonds are called double bezique and count 500.
- The fifth major in trump (ace, ten, king, queen, jack) counts 250.
You can only report if you have taken a trick. There are no two reports at once.
In the tricks, as in so many games, you count ace eleven, ten ten, king four, queen three, jack two. The trump seven is worth ten, the other hands nothing.
As long as the talon has not been used up, no service is required, but at the end of the game you have to know it or use an atout.
Source : Meyers Konversations-Lexikon from 1895
additions
Bézique can also be played as a chouette by three or more people.
Individual evidence
- ^ Rules of Card Games: Bezique . pagat.com. Retrieved June 26, 2011.