Piquet

Piquet
French Piquet pack
OriginFrance
TypeTrick-taking
Players2
Cards32
DeckPiquet (subset of French pack)
Rank (high→low)A, K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7
Related games
Écarté
A Game of Piquet, imaginary 17th century scene painted in 1861 by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1815–1891), National Museum of Wales

Piquet (/pɪˈkɛt/; French pronunciation: [pikɛ]) is an early 16th-century plain-trick card game for two players that became France's national game.[1] David Parlett calls it a "classic game of relatively great antiquity... still one of the most skill-rewarding card games for two" but one which is now only played by "aficionados and connoisseurs."[2] Historically also known as Sant or Saunt from the French Cent.

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