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    Bezique (/bəˈziːk/) or bésigue (French: [beziɡ]) is a 19th-century French melding and trick-taking card game for two players, which was imported to Britain...
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    identical rank (8♠ 8♣ 8♥). Other ones may be marriage (e.g. K♥ and Q♥) and bezique (Q♠ and J♦). Melding is typical in games of the rummy family, such as canasta...
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    players and played with a 48-card deck. It is derived from the card game bezique; players score points by trick-taking and also by forming combinations...
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    The Bezique Game (La partie de Bésigue) is an 1880 oil-on-canvas painting by the French impressionist artist Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894). The work...
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    the Czech/Slovak Mariáš, Hungarian Ulti, Finnish Marjapussi and French Bezique. American pinochle also descends from this family. Together with the jack–nine...
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  • French (4 x AKQJT987) or German (4 x AKOUT987) packs: Bassadewitz Belote Bezique Bierkopf Blattla Bohemian Schneider Bräus/Brus Brusquembille Coinche Écarté...
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    Brisca, Bezique and the highly elaborate Briscan. Another theory proposes an Italian origin of from the game of Bazzica, which is similar to Bezique. To win...
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    Danaus, the main protagonist Hadria Fullerton sarcastically wishes to learn Bezique or Halma in order to be a more acquiescent woman. Mervyn Peake twice compares...
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  • Trump Turkish King Twenty-eight Twenty-five Vira Whist Zole Belote Bête Bezique Coinche Écarté Piquet Preferans Préférence Sheepshead Skat Tapp The following...
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    such as Euchre. Games with such promotion include: All Fours Bête Belote Bezique Cribbage Doppelkopf Egyptian Ratscrew Euchre Five-hundred Forty-fives Hearts...
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    is a piquet deck, used for piquet, Belote, Skat, Euchre, Bête, Écarté, Bezique and (with two piquet decks) Pinochle, among others. Rook's main variant...
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    little-changed descendant of Brusquembille, the ancestor of briscan and bezique, Briscola is a Mediterranean trick-taking ace–ten card game for two to...
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    hand as in Ninety-nine, be determined by drawing a card at random as in Bezique, by the last card dealt to a designated player as in Whist, by the first...
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    the Low Countries, Central Europe and is used to play piquet, belote, bezique and skat. Values in Russian 36-card stripped deck (used to play durak and...
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    Orangers (1878) Vue de toits (1878–79) A Balcony in Paris (1880–81) The Bezique Game (1880) Portrait of Richard Gallo (1880s) Homme au bain (1884) Family...
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    Schnapsen, Schnapser or Schnapsa is a trick-taking card game of the bézique (ace–ten) family that is very popular in Bavaria and in the territories of...
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  • Texas". This trick-taking game for two players is similar to Sixty-Six and Bezique. Each player draws 7 tiles from a double-six set. Then a tile is turned...
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    {\displaystyle 48,036,156.{\overline {7}}} ) Highest opening move score (SOWPODS) – BEZIQUE 124 by Sam Kantimathi (1993), Joan Rosenthal and Sally Martin. Highest...
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    Paintings The Acrobats The Bezique Game The Card Players The Card Players II Card Players in a Rich Interior The Card Sharp with the Ace of Diamonds Cardplayers...
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    to the Dutch Klaberjass. Bête, a gambling game and descendent of Ombre Bezique, "one of the most illustrious games of European high society" for which...
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  • and provided an opponent for his favourite card game, rubicon (six pack bezique). He also accompanied Churchill on his trips abroad. After Churchill's...
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    travelled extensively. His days there were spent writing, painting, playing bezique or sitting "by the fish pond, feeding the golden orfe and meditating"....
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  • Urban Art and Antiques; Antique News; Art News. 24 February 2009. https://www.louvreabudhabi.ae/en/Explore/highlights-of-the-collection/bezique%20game...
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  • which dates back to at least 1715. Well-known games in this group include bezique and the national card games of Austria (Schnapsen), Hungary (ulti), France...
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  • of the concepts in Tic-Tac-Toe Zetema, a Victorian card game similar to Bezique Crossings, a board game by Robert Abbott; later turned into Epaminondas...
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  • Paintings The Acrobats The Bezique Game The Card Players The Card Players II Card Players in a Rich Interior The Card Sharp with the Ace of Diamonds Cardplayers...
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  • also played with the equivalent German-suited decks in some regions). Bezique is played with two piquet decks. Stripped decks are used in certain poker...
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    Orangers (1878) Vue de toits (1878–79) A Balcony in Paris (1880–81) The Bezique Game (1880) Portrait of Richard Gallo (1880s) Homme au bain (1884) Family...
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    popular and include some of the most significant card games such as piquet, bezique, sixty-six, klaberjass, gin rummy and cribbage. Many multi-player games...
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  • been alongside another of Kennedy's one-acts, A Beast Story, as Cities in Bezique. An African-American girl dreams of establishing a heritage and imagines...
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