Bezique
(1860)
Who is this game suitable for?
Suitable for ages 10 and up. You can play with 2 to 2 players.
For the pros among you, the following mechanics can be decisive: Set Collection und Trick-taking...
Game Data
| Average time to play: | 30 |
| Minimum age: | 10 |
| Number of players: | 2 |
| Publisher: | (Public Domain), The Boots Company, PLC, Brimtoy, Chas Goodall & Sons Ltd, De La Rue, Piatnik, W H Willis & Co, W. D. & H. O. Wills, Waddingtons, Werner & Schumann |
| Designers: | (Uncredited) |
| Artists: | Unknown |
| Mechanics: | Set Collection, Trick-taking |
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.)
Alternative names:
Bezique
'Ten beats all except ace'
Bésigue
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Bésigue simple
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Безик
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