Origin | France |
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Players | 3-10 |
Cards | 52, 40 or 32 cards |
Deck | French |
Play | Clockwise |
Playing time | 15 min. |
Chance | Easy |
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]