&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:The_French_Gambling_Aristocracy.png) The French Gambling Aristocracy | |
| Origin | France |
|---|---|
| Family | Trick-taking |
| Players | 4 |
| Skills | Strategy |
| Cards | 52 |
| Deck | French |
| Play | Clockwise |
| Playing time | 25 minutes |
| Chance | Medium |
| Related games | |
| Whist | |
Bostogné, Boston or Boston Whist[1] 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,[2] 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 French Boston.
- ^ Boston and Solo Whist at parlettgames.uk. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of Card Games, David Parlett, p.27 - Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-869173-4