Bezique 1860
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About the Game
A trick taking card game in which players score for winning aces and 10s in tricks, and for forming certain combinations of cards from tricks won and cards in hand. Point-scoring combinations include four of a kind (aces, kings, queens and jacks only), a marriage (king and queen of same suit), sequence (A-10 of trump) or a Bezique (queen of spades and jack of diamonds). Bezique uses a subset of the standard playing cards, composed of the seven through Ace taken from two decks (i.e. the deck contains no deuces through sixes, with all other cards appearing twice).
A game of Bezique goes through three distinct stages or "phases" of play, and is somewhat reminiscent of cribbage and canasta.
Bezique is the ancestor of Pinochle, and that game's two-handed version is very similar to Bezique but with slightly different deck and slightly different scoring.
(The origin date listed for this game is approximate.)
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- Mechanics
- Also known as
- 'Ten beats all except ace' · Bésigue · Bésigue double · Bésigue simple · Bezik · Bézique · Bézique & Polish Bézique · Bézique and Polish Bézique · Bézique and Rubicon Bézique · The Royal Game Bézique · The Royal Game of Bezique · Rubicon Bézique …
- BGG ratings
- 109 · geek rating 5.54
- BGG data
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