Boston (card game)

Boston
The French Gambling Aristocracy
OriginFrance
FamilyTrick-taking
Players4
SkillsStrategy
Cards52
DeckFrench
PlayClockwise
Playing time25 minutes
ChanceMedium
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.

  1. ^ Boston and Solo Whist at parlettgames.uk. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
  2. ^ Oxford Dictionary of Card Games, David Parlett, p.27 - Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-869173-4