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Pages in category "French card games" The following 59 pages are in this category, out of 59 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Aluette; Ambigu;
The trick-taking genre of card games is one of the most common varieties, found in every part of the world. The following is a list of trick-taking games by type of pack : 52-card French-suited pack
English / French. Skills. Medium. Media type. 106 cards. Mille Bornes ( / ˌmɪl ˈbɔːrn /; French for a thousand milestones, referring to the distance markers on many French roads, is a French designer card game. Mille Bornes is listed in the GAMES Magazine Hall of Fame .
Games played with 36 cards may be of considerable antiquity as the standard German card pack reduced to 32 cards during the 19th century (see Dummett 1980). Several of these games are attempts to play the Tarot game of Grosstarock with standard French- or German-suited cards.
French-suited playing cards or French-suited cards are cards that use the French suits of trèfles (clovers or clubs ♣ ), carreaux (tiles or diamonds ♦ ), cœurs (hearts ♥ ), and piques (pikes or spades ♠ ). Each suit contains three or four face/court cards. In a standard 52-card deck these are the valet ( knave or jack ), the dame ...
Belote (French pronunciation:) is a 32-card, trick-taking, ace–ten game played primarily in France and certain European countries, namely Armenia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Georgia (mainly Guria), Greece, Luxembourg, Moldova, North Macedonia (mainly Bitola), Bosnia and Herzegovina and also in Saudi Arabia and Tunisia.
The game of French Tarot is a trick-taking strategy tarot card game played by three to five players using a traditional 78-card tarot deck. The game is played in France and also in French-speaking Canada. It should not be confused with French tarot, which refers to all aspects of cartomancy and games using tarot cards in France.
Bezique (/ b ə ˈ z iː k /) or bésigue (French:) is a 19th-century French melding and trick-taking card game for two players that came to Britain and is still played today. The game is derived from piquet, possibly via marriage (sixty-six) and briscan, with additional scoring features, notably the peculiar liaison of the Q ♠ and J ♦ that is also a feature of pinochle, Binokel, and ...