Bezique

Bezique, Bésique, Bésigue or Bézigue was a modern end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century in France and the United Kingdom card game. Bezique was the favorite card game of Winston Churchill, the game is supposed to have originated in the French province of Poitou, whence it came to Paris.

To the family of Bezique games include binoculars and its American variant Pinochle, Rummy and sixty-six, Klaberjass and the various Jass variants.

The game

Bezique is of two people with two parcels -call tickets, that is played two times 32 sheets of French cards, a game is usually played on up to 1000 points ( Points ).

Each player receives eight leaves; the next card is pitched open and determines the trump color. The remaining cards are placed face down across the open map, the stack thus formed is the Talon. After each pass both players lift the uppermost card from (see Sixty-six ).

It was reported that, similar to the call.

• Four Aces are 100,
• Four Kings 80,
• Four ladies 60,
• Four boys 40;
• Mariage ( King and Queen ) applies in trump 40, or 20
• Queen of Spades and Jack of Diamonds form Bezique and apply 40
• Both spades ladies and both Jack of Diamonds hot Doppelbézique and include 500
• The Quinte Major in trump ( Ace, Ten, King, Queen, Jack ) counts 250

You may enter only if you have made ​​a stitch. Two messages at once does not take place.

In Stitches is expected, as with so many games, Ace eleven, ten ten, king four, three lady, Jack two. The Trump Seven valid for ten, the remaining leaves nothing.

As long as the Talon is not depleted, no operation is required, at the end of the game but must be known or be stung with trump.

Source: Meyers Lexicon of 1895

Supplements

Bezique can be played as Chouette also by three or more persons.