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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.
Triomphe (French for triumph), once known as French ruff, is a card game dating from the late 15th century. It most likely originated in France or Spain (as triunfo) and later spread to the rest of Europe. When the game arrived in Italy, it shared a similar name with the pre-existing game and deck known as trionfi; probably resulting in the ...
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, [1] 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 ...
The Chambéry rules that come with the deck are similar to Piedmontese tarot games but the ace ranked between the jack and the 10 like in Triomphe. [9] [10] [11] Another playing card deck named after Piedmont is the Italian-suited Tarocco Piemontese, used in Tarot card games.
Mille Bornes (/ ˌ m ɪ l ˈ b ɔːr n /; 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 .
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Manille. Manille ( French pronunciation: [manij]; derived from the Spanish and Catalan manilla) is a Catalan French trick-taking card game which uses a 32 card deck. It spread to the rest of France in the early 20th century, but was subsequently checked and reversed by the expansion of belote. [1] It is still popular in France (primarily the ...