"cards drawn, which pays 40-to-1 instead of pushing, and ""Panda 8"", a bet on the player to total 8 points with three cards drawn, which pays 25-to-1. ""Chemin de fer"" is a version which first appeared in the late 19th century. Its name, which is the French term for ""railway"", comes from the version being quicker than the original game, the railway being at that time the fastest means of transport. It is still the most popular version in France. Six decks of cards are used, shuffled together. Players are seated in random order, typically around an oval table; discarded"
"together. Other variations include allowing use of any card from the waste, dealing some of the tableau cards face down, and changing the number of tableau piles and/or the number of cards in each tableau. The number of possible permutations is vast, and solitaire suites often include several flavours. Here are some of these variants: Napoleon at St Helena Napoleon at St Helena is a patience card game. It is quite difficult to win, and relies mostly on luck. It is also known as Forty Thieves, Roosevelt at San Juan, Big Forty and Le Cadran. Napoleon at St Helena forms"
"Rail Baron Rail Baron is a railroad board game for 3 to 6 players. ""Rail Baron"" was one of the first board games with a railroad theme, and helped establish a category known as train games. ""Rail Baron"" was initially published in the 1970s under the name ""Boxcars"" by the original designers R.S. Erickson and T.F. Erickson, Jr. It was soon acquired, renamed and reissued by the Avalon Hill Game Company where it became one of the company's top sellers. ""Rail Baron"" is played on a map of the United States on which the routes of 28 historic railroads, such"
"more difficult and to decrease high runs to keep spectators interested, countered by new shot inventions and skills interdicting each new rule. Straight rail from which the balkline games derive, sometimes called carom billiards, straight billiards, the three-ball game, the carambole game, and the free game (or libre) in Europe, is thought to date to the 18th century, although no exact time of origin is known. It was known as French caroms, French billiards, or the French game in early times, taking those bygone names from the French who popularized it. The derivation of the name ""straight rail"" is not"
"Quadrille (patience) Quadrille, also called Captive Queens, La Française or Partner is a card game of the Patience or Solitaire type using a pack of 52 playing cards. The name Quadrille is derived from the layout of the four Queens around which the cards are built; an alternative name, Captive Queens, describes the way the Queens become ""enclosed"" as the foundations are built upon. Alluding to the name, Quadrille, Parlett describes it as ""a pleasant little pictorial which may be said to represent the dance of the cardboard court."" There are two variants: Either way, the role of the Queens"
"Polignac (card game) Polignac (a.k.a. Jeux des Valets) is a French 18th century trick-taking card game ancestral to Hearts and Black Maria. It is played by 3-6 players with a 32-card deck. It is sometimes played as a party game with the 52-card pack, however, it is better as a serious game for four, playing all against all. Other names for this game include Quatre Valets and Stay Away. Knaves is a variant and it is also similar to the Austrian and German games, Slobberhannes, Eichelobern and Grasobern. The aim of the game is to avoid capturing any Jacks in"
"from his/her hand and replace them with the face down cards (without looking at them). The team that wins the first trick can add the 2 reserve cards to their winnings. The dealer always plays against the 2 other players effectively alternating your partner throughout the game. Manille Manille (; derived from the Spanish and Catalan ""Malilla"") is a French trick-taking card game which uses a 32 card deck. It spread to the rest of France in the early 20th century, but was subsequently checked and reversed by the expansion of Belote. It is still popular in France (primarily the"
"rail, also with a two count restriction for balk spaces. Over its history balkline has had many variations including 8.2, 10.2, 12.2, 13.2, 12½.2, 14.1, 14.2, 18.1, 18.2, 28.2, 38.2, 39.2, 42.2, 45.1, 45.2, 47.1, 47.2, 57.2 and 71.2 balkline. In its various incarnations, balkline was the predominate carom discipline from 1883 to the 1930s when it was overtaken by three-cushion billiards (and pocket billiards). Balkline is popular in Europe and the Far East. Cushion caroms, sometimes called by its original name, the indirect game, is traceable to 1820s Britain and is a descendant of the ""doublet game"" dating to"
"Baccarat (card game) Baccarat or baccara (; ) is a card game played at casinos. It is a comparing card game played between two hands, the ""player"" and the ""banker"". Each baccarat coup (round of play) has three possible outcomes: ""player"" (player has the higher score), ""banker"", and ""tie"". There are three popular variants of the game: ""punto banco"" (or ""North American baccarat""), ""baccarat chemin de fer"" (or ""chemmy""), and ""baccarat banque"" (or ""à deux tableaux""). In ""punto banco"", each player's moves are forced by the cards the player is dealt. In ""baccarat chemin de fer"" and ""baccarat banque"", by"
"cards. The combinations ""pair"" and ""point"" are not recognized. Commerce (card game) Commerce is a 19th-century gambling French card game akin to Thirty-one and perhaps ancestral to Whisky Poker and Bastard Brag. It aggregates a variety of games with the same game mechanics. Trade and Barter, the English equivalent, has the same combinations, but a different way of acquiring them. Trentuno, ""Trent-et-Uno"", applies basically to the same method of play, but also has slightly different combinations. Like other games of the Commerce group, the aim is to finish with the best three-card combination in hand. The players can try to"
"7.0. The scenes depicted are as follows: Tarot Nouveau The Tarot Nouveau, French Tarot Nouveau or Bourgeois Tarot deck is a pattern of tarot cards. As such it differs from those tarot decks used in fortune-telling, such as the Tarot of Marseilles and Rider-Waite decks, in that the Tarot Nouveau is designed solely for playing the various tarot card games for which the 78-card tarot deck was originally devised, such as the game of French Tarot. In the French language, this deck is often called the tarot à jouer or playing tarot. This usage is distinct from cartomancy and other"
"Écarté Écarté is an old French casino game that is still played today. It is a two-player card game, the word literally meaning ""discarded"". It is a trick-taking game, similar to whist, but with a special and eponymous discarding phase. It is closely related to Euchre, a card game played mainly in the United States. Écarté was popular in the 19th century, but is now rarely played. All cards from two to six are removed from a 52-card pack, to produce the Piquet pack of thirty-two cards, which rank from the lowest 7, 8, 9, 10, ace, knave, queen, to"
"Your Eyes Only""; and ""GoldenEye"". In the 2006 movie adaptation of ""Casino Royale"", baccarat is replaced by Texas hold 'em poker, largely due to the poker boom at the time of filming. Baccarat (card game) Baccarat or baccara (; ) is a card game played at casinos. It is a comparing card game played between two hands, the ""player"" and the ""banker"". Each baccarat coup (round of play) has three possible outcomes: ""player"" (player has the higher score), ""banker"", and ""tie"". There are three popular variants of the game: ""punto banco"" (or ""North American baccarat""), ""baccarat chemin de fer"" (or"
"Manille Manille (; derived from the Spanish and Catalan ""Malilla"") is a French trick-taking card game which uses a 32 card deck. It spread to the rest of France in the early 20th century, but was subsequently checked and reversed by the expansion of Belote. It is still popular in France (primarily the north and south-west) and the western part of Belgium. The game is played with a 32-card piquet deck. It is usually played by four players in two partnerships, but variants with two or three players also exist. The 32 cards are distributed equally between the four players,"
"and other routes further away from London. In the Pennsylvania expansion, routes are marked with different railroad company icons. When a player claims a route, he may also claim a stock share card from one of the companies represented by the icons on that route. Players with stock shares score additional points at the end of the game: the more shares, the more points. Released in 2017, map collection 6 contains a map of France with a new feature of laying the tracks before routes can be claimed. On the reverse is a map of the Old West for up"
"Ticket to Ride (board game) Ticket to Ride is a railway-themed German-style board game designed by Alan R. Moon, Illustrated by Julien Delval and Cyrille Daujean, published in 2004 by Days of Wonder. The game is also known as ""Zug um Zug"" (German), ""Les Aventuriers du Rail"" (French), ""Aventureros al Tren"" (Spanish), ""Wsiąść do pociągu"" (Polish), and ""Menolippu"" (Finnish). The game won the 2004 Spiel des Jahres, the Origins Award for ""Best Board Game of 2004"", the 2005 Diana Jones award, the 2005 As d'Or Jeu de l'année, and placed second in the Schweizer Spielepreis for Family Games. ""Ticket to"
"Faro (card game) Faro, ""Pharaoh"", or ""Farobank"" is a late 17th-century French gambling card game. It is descended from Basset, and belongs to the Lansquenet and Monte Bank family of games due to the use of a banker and several players. Winning or losing occurs when cards turned up by the banker match those already exposed. It is not a direct relative of poker, but Faro was often just as popular, due to its fast action, easy-to-learn rules, and better odds than most games of chance. The game of Faro is played with only one deck of cards and admits"
"Knight (playing card) A knight or cavalier is a playing card with a picture of a man riding a horse on it. It is a face card and is called ""caballo"" in Spanish playing cards and ""cavallo"" in Italian playing cards. In these decks, it ranks between the knave and the king within its suit. Among French playing cards, the knight (""chevalier"") can only be found in tarot decks. In Latin and French suited tarot decks, the knight ranks between the knave and the queen. Knights do not appear in German or Swiss playing cards; their place being occupied by"
"Bezique Bezique () or Bésigue () is a 19th-century French melding and trick-taking card game for two players. The game is derived from Piquet, possibly via Marriage (Sixty-six) and Briscan, with additional scoring features, notably the peculiar liaison of the and that is also a feature of Pinochle, Binokel, and similarly named games that vary by country. Bezique was developed in France from the game Piquet, although the word Bezique, formerly ""Bésique"" or ""Bésigue"", was known in France in the 17th century, coming probably from the Italian card game Bazzica. The word ""bezique"" once meant ""correspondence"" or ""association"". In English-speaking"
"Tarot Nouveau The Tarot Nouveau, French Tarot Nouveau or Bourgeois Tarot deck is a pattern of tarot cards. As such it differs from those tarot decks used in fortune-telling, such as the Tarot of Marseilles and Rider-Waite decks, in that the Tarot Nouveau is designed solely for playing the various tarot card games for which the 78-card tarot deck was originally devised, such as the game of French Tarot. In the French language, this deck is often called the tarot à jouer or playing tarot. This usage is distinct from cartomancy and other divinatory purposes, for which the tarot is"
"the Club plays ""écarte"" (sic) at Eatanswill. In episode 6 of the remake of Poldark, Ross plays a cardsharp. Bell Ami chapter 3, in the publishers office ""the light bits of colored paste board"" It is also mentioned in part two, chapter four, of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary. Écarté Écarté is an old French casino game that is still played today. It is a two-player card game, the word literally meaning ""discarded"". It is a trick-taking game, similar to whist, but with a special and eponymous discarding phase. It is closely related to Euchre, a card game played mainly in"
"many times his stake. Figures of railway trains and other objects sometimes take the place of horses. In recent years there has been a tendency to supplant the petits chevaux at French resorts by the boule or ball game, on the same principle of gambling; in this a ball is rolled on a basin-shaped table so that it may eventually settle in one of a number of shallow cups, each marked with a figure. ""Petits-chevaux"" plays a prominent part in the Saki story, ""The Way to the Dairy"" (c. 1911). Petits-Chevaux Petits-Chevaux, French for ""little horses"", is a gambling game"
"permitted. The game is won when all the cards are in the foundations with the court cards (Kings and Jacks) at the top of each foundation, as shown on the right. Quadrille (patience) Quadrille, also called Captive Queens, La Française or Partner is a card game of the Patience or Solitaire type using a pack of 52 playing cards. The name Quadrille is derived from the layout of the four Queens around which the cards are built; an alternative name, Captive Queens, describes the way the Queens become ""enclosed"" as the foundations are built upon. Alluding to the name, Quadrille,"
"Boston (card game) Boston is an 18th-century, trick-taking, card game played throughout the Western world apart from Britain, forming an evolutionary link between Hombre and Solo Whist. Apparently named after a key location in the American War of Independence, it is probably a French game which was devised in France in the 1770s, combining the 52-card pack and logical ranking system of partnership Whist with a range of solo and alliance bids borrowed from Quadrille. Other lines of descent and hybridization produced the games of Twenty-five, Préférence and Skat. Its most common form is known as Boston de Fontainebleau or"
"Touring (card game) Touring is a specialty card game. Originally designed by William Janson Roche and patented by the Wallie Dorr Company and produced in 1906, it was picked up by Parker Brothers in 1925 It is widely believed the popular French card game Mille Bornes was derived from Touring. After several revisions, Touring was discontinued shortly after Parker Brothers picked up the American license of Mille Bornes. However, the game of Touring was reissued by Winning Moves in 2014. The original Wallie Dorr edition was a small red box with 100 cards. They updated the game to a side-by-side"
"variation. The dealer shuffles while the train fares are distributed evenly (any remainder is placed in the tray, known as the Conductor's Pot). The dealer then deals the cards face-down, one at a time; 13 cards each for 2 or 3 players, 8 for 4 or more. The remaining cards are placed face-down to form the draw pile, known as the Conductor's Hand. Starting on the dealer's left, a player checks to see if they have a Station card. If so, they play it to start the first line. If not, their turn passes (they do ""not"" need to pay"
"Ticket to Ride (video game) Ticket to Ride is a turn-based strategy video game, based upon Alan R. Moon's German-style board game of the same name, developed by Next Level Games and published by Playful Entertainment, Inc. The title was released on June 25, 2008. In February 2017 Days of wonder abandoned Linux support. Gameplay is identical to the board game: there are two types of cards, colored train cars representing a type of cargo (e.g., black represents coal cars), and destination cards which feature two city destinations (e.g., Chicago to Miami). Each player is dealt three destination cards, and"
"plastic swords, and Milton Bradley's fantasy-themed ""Dragonmaster"" (1981) that keeps score with colored plastic jewels, Barbu (card game) Barbu or Le Barbu, also known as Tafferan, is a trick-taking, compendium, card game similar to hearts where four players take turns leading seven different sub-games (known as contracts) over the course of 28 deals. Barbu originated in France in the early 20th century where it was especially popular with university students, and became a prominent game among French Bridge-players in the 1960s. The French version of the game was originally played with a stripped deck of 32 cards ranked seven to"
"Barbu (card game) Barbu or Le Barbu, also known as Tafferan, is a trick-taking, compendium, card game similar to hearts where four players take turns leading seven different sub-games (known as contracts) over the course of 28 deals. Barbu originated in France in the early 20th century where it was especially popular with university students, and became a prominent game among French Bridge-players in the 1960s. The French version of the game was originally played with a stripped deck of 32 cards ranked seven to ace in each suit. Modern forms are played with a full 52-card pack. ""Le barbu"""
"The Tarot Nouveau, of Frankfurt origin, has trumps which depict scenes of traditional social activities; this differs from the Renaissance allegorical motifs found in Italian-suited Tarot decks such as the Tarot de Marseille, Tarocco Piemontese, the Tarocco Bolognese, or even the Rider-Waite well known in cartomancy. ""Jeu de Tarot"" is now the most popular card game in France after Belote and many tournaments are held by the Fédération Française de Tarot. A Tarot Nouveau deck consists of 56 cards of four suits and 22 emblematic cards called ""atouts"" (trumps). Each suit consists of fourteen cards: ten pip cards, and four"
"by the name ""Twenty-Five"". There are other versions of this game where the largest score that can be thrown is thirty. In addition to chaupar there are many versions of the game. Parcheesi, Sorry!, and Ludo are among the many Westernized commercial versions of the game. A similar game called Parchís is popular in Spain and northern Morocco. Parqués is its Colombian variant. The Jeu des petits chevaux (Game of Little Horses) is played in France, and Mensch ärgere Dich nicht is a popular German variant. It is also possible that this game led to the development of the Korean"
"Commerce (card game) Commerce is a 19th-century gambling French card game akin to Thirty-one and perhaps ancestral to Whisky Poker and Bastard Brag. It aggregates a variety of games with the same game mechanics. Trade and Barter, the English equivalent, has the same combinations, but a different way of acquiring them. Trentuno, ""Trent-et-Uno"", applies basically to the same method of play, but also has slightly different combinations. Like other games of the Commerce group, the aim is to finish with the best three-card combination in hand. The players can try to improve their hands by swapping one or more of"
"Knightmare Chess Knightmare Chess is a fantasy chess variant published by Steve Jackson Games (SJG) in 1996. It is a translation of a French game Tempête sur l'échiquier (Storm on the Chessboard), designed by Pierre Cléquin and Bruno Faidutti. A stand-alone 80 card expansion called ""Series 2"" was scheduled for a December 1997 release. ""Knightmare Chess"" is played with cards that change the default rules of chess. The cards might change how a piece moves, move opponent's pieces, create special squares on the board or otherwise alter the game. For example, a card called Demotion says: There are two sets"