Quadrille is a card game that was highly popular in the 18th century at the French court and among the British nobility, especially women. A variant of...
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Quadrille is the name of two loosely related card games of the Patience or solitaire type which are often confused. Both use a pack of 52 playing cards...
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up quadrille in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Quadrille is a dance. Quadrille may also refer to: Quadrille (card game), a trick-taking card game Quadrille...
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patience is a card game, whereas a solitaire is any one-player game, including those played with dominoes or peg and board games. Secondly, any game of patience...
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A card game is any game that uses playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, whether the cards are of a traditional design or...
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Bostogné, Boston or Boston Whist is an 18th-century trick-taking card game played throughout the Western world apart from Britain, forming an evolutionary...
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A trick-taking game is a card- or tile-based game in which play of a hand centers on a series of finite rounds or units of play, called tricks, which are...
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Contract bridge (redirect from Bridge (card game))
Contract bridge, or simply bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard 52-card deck. In its basic format, it is played by four players in two...
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cards from other regions are not included, nor are proprietary card games since each game comes with a bespoke pack and the question is not relevant. Where...
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single-deck game Captured Queens (Quadrille), both of which have no reserve and are entirely luck-based. Picture Patience is a solitaire game which is played...
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Hoyle Card Games is a Game Boy Color-only video game that was developed by Sandbox Studios and published by Sierra On-Line under their Sierra Attractions...
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"Contradance (Cotillion)" in Simple Builder Solitaire Card Games. PlayingCardDecks, 1 September 2021. Quadrille (Captured Queens) Royal Cotillion Odd and Even...
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Casino chip (redirect from Gaming token)
tokens were the counters used to keep score in the card games Ombre and Quadrille. In 1752, French Quadrille sets contained a number of different counters...
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the most successful card game ever invented. Ombre spread rapidly across Europe generating a host of other games including Quadrille which was played in...
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Taroc l'Hombre (redirect from Tarok-Quadrille)
Taroc l'Hombre or Tarok-l'Hombre is an extinct card game of the European Tarot card game family for three players that was played with a full pack of...
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Ombre (redirect from Tresillo (card game))
fast-moving seventeenth-century trick-taking card game for three players and "the most successful card game ever invented." Its history began in Spain around...
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German Solo (category German card games)
8-card plain-trick game for 4 individual players using a 32-card, German- or French-suited skat pack. It is essentially a simplification of quadrille,...
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Schafkopf (redirect from Minas (game contract))
descend from an earlier game, also called Schafkopf, with influences from Solo which, in turn, is the German version of Quadrille. The earliest written...
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Königrufen (redirect from Uhu (playing card))
German Tarok Quadrille and the Italian Chiamare il re, whose name means the same as "Königrufen", were based on this principle. The 78-card pack was stripped...
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Royal Cotillion (category Double-deck patience card games)
single-deck game Quadrille (Captured Queens), both of which have no reserve and are entirely luck-based. First, the ace and the deuce (two card) of each...
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Edmond Hoyle (category Card game book writers)
the Game of Backgammon (1743), An Artificial Memory for Whist (1744), and more short treatises on the games of piquet and chess (1744) and quadrille (1744)...
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List of patience games (redirect from Solitaire card games)
Propeller Puss in the Corner Putt Putt Pyramid Pyramide Pyramid Golf Quadrille Queen of Italy Queen's Audience Racing Demon+ Raglan Rainbow Canfield...
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Odd and Even (category Double-deck patience card games)
Odd and Even is a solitaire card game which is played with two decks of playing cards. It is so called because the building is done in twos, resulting...
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Trente et Quarante (redirect from Rouge et Noir (gambling game))
is a "type of card game". By the mid-18th century it had reached England, Lyonell Vane recording that he played it alongside Quadrille and Basset, and...
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Auction bridge (category Card games introduced in 1904)
Bidding was not common in England, but had been used in Dummy Whist, Quadrille, Solo Whist, and Five Hundred. A book by "John Doe" (Francis Reginald...
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Grasobern (redirect from Schinderhannes (card game))
Grasoberl, Grasoberln, Graseberla, Grünobern, Lauboberl or Laubobern is a card game that was once commonly played in Old Bavaria, especially in the old counties...
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croquet match, in which live flamingos, card guards, and hedgehogs are used as equipment. The equipment rig the game in favor of the Queen. The Cat appears...
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instruments. Caledonians is a square dance for eight, resembling the quadrille. Albums with the number eight in their title include 8 by the Swedish...
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The two sing with Alice, encouraging her and teaching her the Lobster Quadrille dance. Alice then wanders away and opens a colossal book and walks into...
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Retrieved 11 June 2022. "Lobster Quadrille". The Avengers Forever!. Retrieved 19 May 2012. Johnson, Piers. "Lobster Quadrille". The Avengers. Retrieved 11...
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