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prettygoodwordbezique (buh-ZEEK) - n., a trick-taking card game similar to pinochle usually played with a pack of 64 cards; the taking of the jack of diamonds with the queen of spades in this game, which is a special trick worth bonus points.
The deck has only some of the cards of the standard 52-card deck, specifically just A, 10, K, Q, J, 9, 8 and 7 of the four suits -- the same as its direct ancestor, piquet. Originally it was played with the 32-card piquet deck, but this was quickly expanded to a double-deck of 64 cards, though variations with 128, 192, or 256 cards are also played. The game developed in France in the 1840s (rumors of a Swedish origin are false) with the name bésigue, the origin of which is unclear -- possibilities include Italian bazzica, the name a similar game, its origin also uncertain, and another game called bezi/bezit in French dialect of Angouleme & Poitou, again uncertain origin.
---L.
The deck has only some of the cards of the standard 52-card deck, specifically just A, 10, K, Q, J, 9, 8 and 7 of the four suits -- the same as its direct ancestor, piquet. Originally it was played with the 32-card piquet deck, but this was quickly expanded to a double-deck of 64 cards, though variations with 128, 192, or 256 cards are also played. The game developed in France in the 1840s (rumors of a Swedish origin are false) with the name bésigue, the origin of which is unclear -- possibilities include Italian bazzica, the name a similar game, its origin also uncertain, and another game called bezi/bezit in French dialect of Angouleme & Poitou, again uncertain origin.
---L.
