Lansquenet

Landsknecht or Fr. corrupted Lansquenet is a card game of chance during the Thirty Years' War (1618 - 48) was born. The name is derived from the mercenaries, under which gambling was very common. Landsknecht is probably to be regarded as a precursor of Pharo.

The game

At the beginning of the game the banker puts his bet in the bank; then set the Pointeure, the sum of their missions may not exceed the amount contained in the bank. Then the banker shuffles the cards, then pull it off and puts the top card of the packet to the left and the next card to the right.

Traps left and right in rank two identical cards, eg two boys, it is called the plié and the banker wins all bets.

If the first two cards of different rank, then the banker draws a third and possibly even more cards and place them so long in the middle until a card is drawn that in either the map to the left or the map to the right rank matches: in the former case wins, the banker, the latter winning the Pointeure.

Source: Meyers encyclopedia from 1908

Note: The colors of the cards do not play a role in the Landsknecht.

Bank benefit

The advantage of the banker is - even if he does not cheat, which is probably more the exception might have been than the rule at the time of the mercenaries - considerably: If a match with 52 sheets used, the house advantage is 5.9 %, at play with 32 Journal of even 9.7 % (see ridging ).

• Card game with a traditional leaf
• Gambling
• Historical game