| 18th-century French game | |
 French Piquet deck | |
| Origin | France |
|---|---|
| Type | Point-trick game, trick-and-draw type |
| Players | 2-5 |
| Cards | 32 |
| Deck | Piquet pack |
| Rank (high→low) | A 10 K Q J 9 8 7 |
| Related games | |
| Briscan, Brisque | |
Brusquembille or Briscambille[1] is a historical, French, 3-card trick-and-draw game for two to five players using a 32-card piquet pack.[2] The game has variable trumps. Side-payments are made for keeping or winning aces and tens.
The Brusquembille rules published in 1718 are the earliest surviving French rules of an ace–ten card game.[a] Cards have precisely the same card-point values as in a number of modern games such as Skat.
- ^ Trömer, Jean Chretien (1755). Jean Chretien Toucement des Deutsch Franços Schrifften. Vol. 2. expanded. Nuremberg: Raspe. pp. 285 – 286.
- ^ The Gentleman's Magazine. Early English newspapers. A. Dodd and A. Smith. 1870. p. 169. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or {{efn}} templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}} template or {{notelist}} template (see the help page).