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| Origin | Italy |
|---|---|
| Alternative names | Gile |
| Family | Matching |
| Players | 2-4 |
| Skills | Chance |
| Cards | 32 |
| Deck | Italian |
| Play | Clockwise |
| Playing time | 20 min. |
| Chance | Medium |
| Related games | |
| Brelan, Gé, Point, Flux et Sequence, Primero | |
Gilet, also Gile, Gillet, is a 16th-century Italian gambling card game that probably predates the game of Primero. Rabelais, in 1534, gives it pride of place in his list of games played by Gargantua,[1] and Cardano, in 1564, describes it as Geleus, from the word Geleo, meaning "I have it".
- ^ David Parlett The Oxford Guide to Card Games, pg. 90 Oxford University Press USA (1990) ISBN 0192141651