Commerce (card game)

Commerce
The best combination - three Aces
OriginFrance
Players3-10
Cards52, 40 or 32 cards
DeckFrench
PlayClockwise
Playing time15 min.
ChanceEasy
Related games
Thirty-one

Commerce is an 18th-century gambling French card game akin to Thirty-one and perhaps ancestral to Whisky Poker and Stop the Bus. 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.[1] Its rules are recorded as early as 1769.[2]

  1. ^ Oxford Dictionary of Card Games, David Parlett, p. 70 - Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-869173-4
  2. ^ Die Kunst die Welt erlaubt. Retrieved 26 Jul 2019